tenisci

Updated: July 2, 2025

"We arrived," she writes, "at eight in the morning on the banks of the Tenisci; immediately the horses were taken out and forced into the ferry-boat, in spite of their desperate resistance I did not stir. My carriage was lifted up and hauled on board by dint of sheer physical strength, fifty men being required for the work, and singing their loudest to inspirit their efforts I heard nothing.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century