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Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence. I am going over before I go on to Constantinople."
Byron says that he has visited Africa in 1810-07-20 to…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "You will not expect a long letter after my riding so far ‘on hollow pampered jades of Asia.’ Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence."

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Seville is a fine town, and the Sierra Morena, part of which we crossed, a very sufficient mountain; but damn description, it is always disgusting."

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Cadiz, sweet Cadiz! — it is the first spot in the creation. * * * The beauty of its streets and mansions is only excelled by the loveliness of its inhabitants."

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Seville is a fine town, and the Sierra Morena, part of which we crossed, a very sufficient mountain ..."

The first country Byron and Hobhouse visit during the Mediterranean Tour (7-17 July 1809). "In CHP I.201-377 the beauties of Lisbon, Cintra and 'this delicious land' (208) are praised and contrasted with the allegedly ignoble, cowardly and violent…

Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16: "To-morrow we start to ride post near 400 miles as far as Gibraltar, where we embark for Melita and Byzantium."
ChMatthews to Byron facetiously 1809-06-30 I.e. Byzantium and Constantinople are the same place.

1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "To-morrow we start to ride post near 400 miles as far as Gibraltar, where we embark for Melita and Byzantium. A letter to Malta will find me, or to be forwarded, if I am absent."

"...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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See 1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "... the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful, perhaps, in the world. * * *..."