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"...and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the musquitoes." Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16
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1811-01-20 Byron to FrHodgson

Named and visited by Byron in 1810-08-23 where an Engishman Watson is buried. The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric…

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31)
Named as visited by Byron to CaByron in 1809-11-12. The principal settlement in the eponymous…

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... but I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war, today I dine with him, he has offered me letters…

Named as visited by Byron to Hobhouse 1810-07-29 (Daskalio)

"I left Constantinople with Adair at whose audience {of leave} I saw Sultan Mahmout, and obtained a firman to visit the Mosques of which I think I gave you some
description in my last letter ..."

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-20 to FrHodgson

Named as the the place of first of 200 plen opCs 1810-10-04 Byron to Hobhouse. BLJ 2-23n

Named by Byron in 1811-06-19 to Hobhouse and 1811-06-25 to CaByron as part of his itinerary to return to London