Selimiye Barracks

So I tell her of my dread of the night journey by Caique, and the improbability of my finding the Hollander in the dark, and with some diffidence, threw myself upon the hospitality of Scutari, offering to nurse the sick for the night.

Now unfortunately, for many reasons, room for even one in Scutari hospital was, at that time, no easy matter to find.

But at last, a bed was discovered to be unoccupied at the hospital washerwoman's quarters.

My experience of washerwomen, all the world over, is the same, that they are kind, soft-hearted folks.