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Chapter 13. Make a control of your diseases

One of the most interesting topics - strange as it may seem - is Heinrich Schliemann as a patient.

If we sum up the information about his diseases, then the natural conclusion will be: he will not be able to achieve any special success; his main concern is not to die too early.

Nevertheless, Heinrich Schliemann lived a successful and eventful life (1822-1890). He died at the age of 68.

The phrase "there are no healthy people now" has become nowdays well-known.

In this situation, the example of Heinrich Schliemann, who managed to control his diseases, to move them onto a proper place in his life, can become for any modern person both moral support and someone else's experience, on which one can learn to become more successful.

In addition to this utilitarian goal, the information given below has another purpose: it shows that Heinrich Schliemann's investments in archaeological achievements were not limited to financial costs.

The discoveries demanded a colossal expenditure (usage) of the health of the great archaeologist.

The phrase of Heinrich Schliemann in a letter written June 24, 1870 in a letter to his son Sergei: ““I did what no one has ever done, and also what no one will ever able to do” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С.129] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 129], - it was not empty words.

The proposal of one of the professors “not to waste money”, “but rather to give the money ... to real scientists” ([Штоль. С. 257] [Stoll. P. 257], [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С.224] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 224]) looks naive. The implementation of this advice would mean the end of the excavation of Troy. It is not only about the availability of money and the intention to spend it on archaeological purposes. But, among other things, in the readiness to risk life and health, to spend strength and energy without counting. It is unlikely that any of the armchair scientists (scientists with a habit of activities in an office room) sought to advance towards the malaria swamps of the Troada. But, as the saying goes, "a betrothed bride is always more desirable." 

Partly deliberately, partly unwittingly, Heinrich Schliemann became a reputational sponsor of both Troada and the Trojan excavations. With his stormy archaeological and informational activity (and later - luckiness), Heinrich Schliemann "started" [made them active] and "hooked" (using modern slang) a lot of people who were completely indifferent to practical excavations and even more indifferent to the distant and not quite understandable, slightly mythical Troad.

Even if Heinrich Schliemann would gave money to someone: what would this “someone” do with these means? It is unlikely that humanity from this "someone" would have received an archaeological result. - Except for talking (in general, correct) about countless difficulties and obstacles.

In the work "Ilios" Heinrich Schliemann describes the Troas in some detail, but, despite the visits of Rudolf Virchow, we do not find in these descriptions data on the mortality rate of local residents.

The specified work of Heinrich Schliemann includes Appendix V entitled "Medical peactice in the troad in 1879" (by Professor Rudolf Virchow) [Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 721]. The next quotes (from Rudolf Virchow) on the topic of health and diseases in Troas are taken from the said work).

In this Appendix Rudolf Virchow mentions the daily “a whole troop of persons” of people seeking medical assistance, that “Trojan Plain is a notorious region of fever,” makes a very comforting reservation: “an outbreak of malaria occurs only in June and July” (visit of Rudolf Virchow at Troas in 1879 took place in April; the Trojan Conferences of 1889 and 1890 were held in December and in March, respectively), explains that “even the villages situated on heights ... are not free from fever. Manifestly the malaria is brought to them by the winds..” 

Rudolf Virchow makes several reassuring remarks, for example: “among the population, intermittent fever, for the most part tertian, was the prevailing disease, but generally in lighter forms, though frequently the new-attacks were developed on the basis of an old malarious condition, or as gradations of a chronic state of fever which had existed for five, six, or nine months."

It should be noted that Rudolf Virchow's description of the symptoms of malaria is quite clear; in general, his description is consistent with current medical positions: “Symptoms of malaria are usually as follows: fever, chills, arthralgia (joint pain), vomiting, anemia caused by hemolysis, hemoglobinuria (excretion of hemoglobin in the urine) and convulsions. A tingling sensation in the skin is also possible, especially in the case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Splenomegaly (enlarged spleen), unbearable headache, and cerebral ischemia may also occur. Malaria infection is deadly dangerous."  “The immune response against malaria infection develops slowly. It is characterized by low efficiency and practically does not protect against re-infection."  “… The “dormant” stages in hepatic  (the so-called hypnozoites) remain and persist for a long time in the hepatic, they can cause, months and years after infection (which occurred in the past), new relapses of the disease and new episodes of the release of parasites into the blood (parasitemia)" [«Малярия»] ["Malaria"].

Rudolf Virchow was carried away by scientific passion: "How often did we ride by starlight or moonlight over the stinking plain !" The scientific fearlessness of Rudolf Virchow is revealed, for example, in the following remark: "... I took some quinine, but no trace of fever was observable."

Since the issue of disease control is being considered, the following remark by Rudolf Virchow is interesting: “On the whole, I was surprised to find a strong and healthy-looking population. Even the appearance of the women exhibited a favourable contrast with what I had seen, though only in the streets, at Constantinople and Scutari. Whilst in these large cities the faces of the women, so far as they were at all visible, exhibited a fearful paleness, nay a very strikingly bloated and anaemic appearance, I found the women of the Troad, even those from the very regions of fever, if not fresh-looking, at least less pale and of a purer complexion than the greater part of the female population of our large cities. Among the men there are a great number of very strong and well-built forms, and in their bronzed faces rosy cheeks are not wanting."  “The fact that the inhabitants have nevertheless a decidedly healthy look, I am inclined to ascribe to their passing the greater part of their life in the open air. Many of them wander about with their herds and seldom come home. Almost all carry on agriculture over large tracts, and the women also take part in the work in the open field.”

After reading the complex of these interesting descriptions, one involuntarily thinks: how right Heinrich Schliemann was, striving from the big capital city to the fresh air, to the peasants, to the animals! In the open air, malaria and fever are not very dangerous!

However, the doctor's inquisitive thought makes a turn, and Rudolf Virchow continues: "This manner of living of course exposes them to other diseases, especially to colds, and these were the order of the day just at the time when I was in the Troad ...".

I believe that the citation from the work by Rudolf Virchow allows us to conclude that the organization of archaeological work in Troas was not a simple matter.

And the difficulties were not limited to the availability or lack of funding. The healthy lifestyle of Heinrich Schliemann, his daily bathing in the sea, and his prudent reserves of quinine - these factors contributed to his success. Still, the odds of failure were very high. How great were the chances of becoming a victim of a fatal disease.

Among the outstanding scientific achievements, notable scientific works of Rudolf Virchow are studies and descriptions of the  typhoid epidemic in 1848 (in the Upper Silesia), the cholera epidemic in 1848 (in Europe), the spread of leprosy  in 1859 (in the western provinces of Norway), the report "Epidemics of 1848"  (Malis Yu. G. "R Virchow: His life and scientific and social activities". 1899. - 80 p. (Series "ZhZL") (Малис Ю. Г. "Р. Вирхов: Его жизнь и научно-общественная деятельность. 1899". — 80 с. (Серия «ЖЗЛ»)).

Apparently, the direct participation in the excavations of Troy (which is also mentioned in the book by Yu. G. Malis), the communication with Heinrich Schliemann, switched Rudolf Virchow's attention from epidemiological issues to the fascinating discoveries of Trojan, Mycenaean archeology. If such a switch had not happened, then the probability of the appearance, in addition to the "Medical practice in the Troas in 1879," the popular and fundamental scientific work by Rudolf Virchow, "On the spread of malaria and colds in the Troas", would have sharply increased. Archaeology  sometimes is a gambling affair!

Heinrich Schliemann's readiness to provide medical care to the local population, a prudently prepared stocks of quinine, medicines, medical supplies, correspondence consultations and personal visits of qualified doctors, medical skills of Heinrich Schliemann himself - all this made the great archaeologist very famous and popular among the local Troadan population. These efforts had formed a favorable external social environment.

Rudolf Virchow notes that the contingent of patients included, among others, an official whom the ministry sent to Hisarlik to supervise the work, as well as ten zaptiekhs (gendarmes) ("The Turkish official who had been sent by the Ministry to Hissarlik to watch the works, as well as the ten zaptiehs (gensdarmes) whom Dr. Schliemann always kept as an escort and safeguard, furnished from the first a certain contingent.").

Let's move on from characterizing the conditions of health preservation during Troad excavations to a more detailed description of the state of health of Heinrich Schliemann throughout his life.

An approximate list of Heinrich Schliemann's diseases (based on informational sources) is as follows:

1841 year. Heinrich Schliemann's first serious illness. “Heinrich was helped, in the literal sense of the word, by misfortune. One day, while lifting a very heavy barrel, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. In the evening, hemoptysis began. Heinrich fell ill and could not get out of bed for several days. When he finally got up and went out into the shop, the owner looked at him anxiously and said that he was very sorry, but, apparently, the work in the shop would now be beyond Heinrich's strength. With several thalers in his pocket, with an old knapsack on his shoulders, a thin, short nineteen-year-old boy with sunken eyes was walking along the road from F;rstenberg. He coughed, spat blood and moved on. (…) For a long time Heinrich could not find a job. Nobody wanted to take a consumptive, weak guy. (…) A damp, chilly Hamburg winter came. Hungry and exhausted, without a coat, choking from coughing, Henry wandered around the city” [Мейерович М. Л. С.28-29] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 28-29].

1848 year. On the way back from Moscow to St. Petersburg Heinrich Schliemann caught a cold at the end of 1848, lay in bed for four months [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 127] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 127].

1849 year. In June, he fell ill with a nervous fever, for a month he was in the most desperate state [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 129] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 129].

(1851. While in the USA, he receives a letter from his friend Procopii Ponomarev with warnings about the high risk of illness and advice to leave California [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 200] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 200].)

1852 year. Heinrich Schliemann falls ill in the USA in California with fever (malaria), typhoid, swallows quinine  [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 201] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 201]. "... He continued to receive clients, while lying in bed in the only room of his office and swallowing quinine" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"]. “The door to the street was wide open. There was a Colt under the pillow” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 48] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 48].

Irving Stone conjectures the following words of Heinrich Schliemann about fever and its treatment with quinine: “In Nicaragua, I was ill with malaria. I was already in the grave my one foot, but a German doctor was nearby and he had fed me with sixty-four grains in one go. I managed to recover!" [Стоун. С. 130]  [Stone. P. 130]. [translation of the Russian-language text into English]

1858 “On May 30, Schliemann reached Damascus, where he fell ill with a fever and then had to go by steamer to Izmir and to Athens. In Athens, where Schliemann's fever became critical, he received a letter from St. Petersburg - on January 12, 1859, his daughter Natalya was born.  Due to poor health, Schliemann couldn't inspect Greece at that time” [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

1859 year. “In the summer of 1859 he was in Smyrna, on the Asia Minor coast, from there he went to the Cyclades, then to Athens - all this in passing, in a hurry, like all tourists. He was going to visit the homeland of Odysseus - the island of Ithaca, but the old California fever suddenly made itself felt. Sick, in bed, Schliemann received a telegram from Petersburg: merchant Stepan Soloviev, who owed him a large sum, went bankrupt and refused to pay the bills. Overcoming a terrible malarial chill, Schliemann began to get ready for the road: he did not want to lose his money at all” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 58] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 58].

1863 year. "... I was sick, but now, thanks to God, it is better" [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 333] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 333]

1864 year. “In July, Schliemann moved to Cairo, where he contracted some kind of infection, his body was covered with abscesses, and he suffered from earaches. He had to return to Europe and receive treatment in Bologna. (…) Treatment in Italy brought only partial relief, for consultations Heinrich went to Paris and eventually ended up in W;rzburg. There, Professor von Troeltsch first diagnosed him with exostosis and forbade him to swim in cold water. Schliemann ignored this ban” [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

1865 year. “In Batavia, he was struck by acute otitis, both ears were affected. The local doctor recommended surgery on the right side [of head], which was successful, but the pain and a some loss of hearing  remained for all the life." "In October 1865, Schliemann, who was again troubled by pain in the ears, arrived in W;rzburg for treatment" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

"Schliemann was not in good health: he had or earache, or fever, or stomach disorders, or "nerves"... but he did not refuse sightseeing. He continued to make a new acquaintances, too." [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 352] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 352].

1866 year. “... His goal was the Samara province, where he set out to be treated with kumis, which became very fashionable in Russia in the 19th century. (...) The treatment lasted from July 15 to August 12, but did not bring relief, especially Schliemann was plagued by malaria and joint pain, Chembulatov resumed treatment with quinine" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] [" Schliemann, Heinrich "].

1871 year. October - November. "Disappeared appetite", "cramps in the stomach." [Вандерберг. С. 295] [Vanderberg. P. 295].

1872 year. “In July 1872, dust storms began, and the temperature was constantly kept at the 30-degree mark. (…) Heat and dust provoked attacks of fever and general conjunctivitis. By August, the whole expedition had already been struck by malaria, and Schliemann himself was feeling such that he did not dare to go out in the daytime. " “Finally, in mid-August 1872, the work had to be stopped, since Schliemann was no longer helped by any doses of quinine” [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

“... Fever knocked him down. Huge doses of quinine did not help, there were no other remedies, but the body, most likely, coped on its own with the disease, and on September 15, Henry went to the place of Troy for a couple of days with E. Siebrecht [Э. Зибрехтом], a photographer from the Dardanelles. From September 22, 1872 to January 29, 1873, Schliemann spent in Athens, putting in order the records and his own health" [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С.216] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 216].

1873 year. “Thus, a fatigue began to overwhelm the seeker.  He was sick. Quinine did not help. (…) At this time he wrote to his publisher: “The hardships and hardships exceed my strength. I decided to continue excavations until June 1, and then stop them forever. Now I will only dig in Greece and I will start with Mycenae” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 106] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 106].

1876 According to Irving Stone, in August 1876, after the start of excavations in Mycenae, Heinrich Schliemann "picked up"  a tapeworm; after a short time, using the prescribed medicine, he was able to free himself from the parasite [Стоун. С. 321, 325]  [Stone. P. 321, 325]. In the exposition of Philipp Vanderberg “At the forty-ninth year of his life, Schliemann's hands began to tremble. The tapeworm was the cause. The parasite tortured Schliemann for eleven years. And only after his expulsion with the use of strong medicines, the trembling of the hands stopped” [Вандерберг. С. 546] [Vanderberg. P. 546]. It was a style of  Heinrich Schliemann to delay the adoption of effective medications for eleven years? Irving Stone's version looks more convincing.

1877 year. “From 7 to 12 November he was in W;rzburg, where he was being treated for a 'cold' ...” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С.235] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 235]

1882 year. “In March 1882, excavations were resumed at Hisarlik. (…) It was a tough campaign. At first there were unbearable frosts, then, in spring, the heat began.

Schliemann's eyes were inflamed from the dust; he saw almost nothing. Many of his letters from that time were written by D;rpfeld, under dictation. Schliemann went deaf. Malaria returned, quinine stopped helping. The memory worked badly. Once he sat down to write a letter in ancient Greek and with horror felt that he could not write a single line - he had forgotten all the words. He measured his temperature - it turned out to be 40 °. And outside the thermometer in the shade showed 41 °. With a terrible effort of will, he defeated an attack of illness and nevertheless wrote a letter, and then fell unconscious” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 153] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 153].

"A severe attack of malaria led to Schliemann's departure from Troad on July 22, 1882." “Suffering from attacks of malaria, Schliemann with his whole family left for Austria and Germany (from August 9 to September 5, 1882). He was undergoing treatment in Marienbad, but interrupted the course of treatment for a performance in Frankfurt (August 13 -18, 1882), the consequence was a severe malarial attack ... He complained of fatigue and complete breakdown” [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

1883 “… 61-year-old Schliemann was injured while riding, when he simultaneously fell from a horse and the horse fell on him. Injuries did not prevent him from coming to England to become an honorary member of Oxford Queen's College; On June 13, 1883, he was made a honorary doctor of the University of Oxford” [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

It would be interesting to look at a person who not only fell from a horse, but on whom, in addition, a horse fell!

“… Schliemann felt the need to relax and have fun. He has worked too hard in recent years. He was in his seventh decade, and at this age few can boast of daily swimming in the sea and horseback riding. He did not recognize old age ailments and considered it immoral to be sick. But more and more often the ears hurt, the stomach tormented, in his youth damaged by starvation, attacks of malaria regularly returned. He became irritable”  [Мейерович М. Л. С. 155] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 155].

1885 year. Heinrich Schliemann “visited the Italian Abano, where he treated his hand for rheumatism in mud baths” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 254] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 254].

1886 year. "After visiting London with a report on the excavations in Tiryns, Schliemann fell ill, and the rest in Ostend led to another ear infection." "... At the end of 1886, he fell ill with pneumonia and suffered from pain in the ears" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

Traveling through Egypt, becouse of the awkward recoil of the shotgun, he knocked his teeth out; “I lost one tooth out of the four remaining and damaged all the artificial ones” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 257] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 257]. (For the first time, information about the injury to the teeth of Heinrich Schliemann appears in his biographies when he told about the shipwreck in 1841 (the front tooth was knocked out) [Штоль. С. 88] [Stoll. P. 88]).

1889 year. “Schliemann's health condition was rapidly deteriorating - he became deaf in his left ear, his right one ached almost continuously, periodically there was complete deafness. Despite this, in a cold and rainy November, the archaeologist headed to Troy to prepare a conference, the beginning of which was scheduled for March 25 next year" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

1890 “In April 1890 Virchow noticed that there were oddities in Schliemann's behavior that were inexplicable by a deafness. He started to talk strange  things, he began to abuse the Homeric formula "Glory to Pallas Athena!" Schliemann was examined by a doctor at the German Hospital in Istanbul, who stated bilateral exostosis. Nevertheless, Schliemann ordered to continue the excavation, which was led by D;rpfeld, who dug in the opposite direction: from the base of the hill to its top. From the letters it follows that Schliemann was tormented by hallucinations, apparently, the inflammatory process of the middle ear passed to the brain" [«Шлиман, Генрих»] ["Schliemann, Heinrich"].

“In secret, he confessed to Virchow that his ears hurt badly. (…)… And without the ear speculum [an ear mirror], it was clear that both auditory canals were closed by large tumors. (…) In July 1890, excavations were interrupted until the next spring. In Constantinople, Schliemann went to see a doctor. The doctor noted the danger, but did not dare to make a surgery. (…) But the deafness and the pain increased. (…) Schwartz made a surgery on both ears. It was November 13th.

The surgery, apparently, was a success, because the patient felt better and on the third day he wrote letters and demanded the Arabic edition of "One Thousand and One Nights" ordered before the surgery.  “(…) In the third week after the surgery, severe pain began. The professor was alarmed. It is possible that a splinter of bone remained in the wound and is now inflamed.

After another five days, the pains disappeared. (…) It was December, and evil drafts [winds] were blowing in the compartment of the Berlin-Paris train. Schliemann did not pay attention to them, he read Shahrazada's tales all night. He forgot to cover his ears with cotton wool. He arrived in Paris sick. (…) Schliemann went to Naples. Ears ached unbearably, there was no strength to continue the journey. (...)

In the cold and the wind, they went to Pompeii - an inquisitive doctor and scientist-patient.
The next morning - it was December 24 - Schliemann woke up with a terrible headache. He got dressed and went to his doctor.

On the Piazza Santa la Carit; Schliemann fainted. Passersby tried to help him.  He could not utter a word, his tongue did not obey him. The policeman took him to the hospital. The young employee of the hospital was surprised:

- You know, we only accept seriously ill patients, and this one just cannot speak. I think he's drunk.

He was dragged back to the police. He did not walk, but they dragged him: paralysis of his right leg and arm began. They groped him in the police station, but they did not find any money or documents. Only in one pocket was a leaflet with the doctor's address. He immediately appeared, examined the patient and was horrified ...

Once again they searched Schliemann and in the far pocket ... they found a full wallet. The policemen fussed, immediately called the carriage ...
Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer, was sitting in the hall of the Piazza Umberto Hotel. A dying man was brought into the hotel. He was carried by four; his head bent down on his chest, his eyes were closed, his hands hung like whips. A few minutes later, the hotel administrator approached Sienkiewicz and asked:
- Do you know who this patient is?
- No.
- This is the great Schliemann ... (Г. Сенкевич. Письма из Африки, стр. 3—4, СПб, 1902) (Henryk Sienkiewicz. Letters from Africa, pp. 3-4, St. Petersburg, 1902).

The called surgeon opened the ear and diagnosed inflammation of the brain. The surgeon did not dare to trepanation of the skull and appointed a concilium.
On December 26, learned physicians gathered, examined the patient and went into the next room to confer. While they were arguing, Schliemann died” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 173-176] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 173-176].

The main conclusion that can be drawn from the history of the Schliemann-patient: diseases can be controlled; illness should not interfere with an active and productive life. There is an option - to ignore. When this is not possible, try to manage your health and ill health. How? Lead an active lifestyle, set positive goals. Spend more time outdoors. Provide, plan physical activity; set a daily routine. Don't avoid treatment. Master the methods of treatment and self-medication within reasonable limits.

Provide for supplies (reserves) of medicines.

Probably, friendship (like the friendship of Heinrich Schliemann and Rudolf Virchow) with a world-class doctor will not hurt.

“Soon I saw a hunter who had a shotgun in his hands.
“Listen,” I said to him. - Who are you shooting at? There is no beast or bird anywhere.
- A sparrow was sitting on the roof of the bell tower in Berlin, and I hit him right in the eye.
You know how I love hunting. I hugged a well-aimed shooter ... He happily followed me" (Э. Распэ. Приключения барона Мюнхаузена) (Rudolf Erich Raspe. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen).

If we take into account certain skills of Heinrich Schliemann to manage own dreams (while sleeping), it is possible that mental practices of health management took place.

For Heinrich Schliemann, visits to his native places and personal communication with fellow countrymen were of no small importance for maintaining health.

Heinrich Stoll's book quotes the words of Heinrich Schliemann, said before visiting his homeland in 1883: "I so overworked that I must spend at least the whole July in Ankershagen, not thinking about work, otherwise the machine will fall apart" [Штоль. С. 386] [Stoll. P. 386].

M. Meyerovich writes about the reading by Heinrich Schliemann before the December walk through Pompeii of fairy tales from "A Thousand and One Nights"; one of the most notable works in this collection is "The Tale of Sinbad the Sailor". “At the center of the story is a typical Baghdad merchant, enterprising, inquisitive, inclined to take risks, but at the same time prudent ... Sinbad is a man of action. He realizes that wealth is unattainable without effort and overcoming dangers. Wealth is a reward for labor and risk, therefore, listening to his stories, the poor porter at the end realizes the justice of inequality in his position and the position of Sinbad the sailor ... The author of the story is filled with ardent sympathy for the merchant class. ... He seems to want to say that trade is not only a noble occupation, but also profitable ... He, like Sinbad, is delighted by the sight of well-equipped ships standing in the roadstead, a pleasant company of merchants and travelers, their cheerful and carefree life at sea and that joy which they experience when they return to their homeland with new-found wealth for a well-deserved rest in the circle of friends and family” [Фильштинский И. C.17] [Filshtinsky I. C.17].

“He starts small, but soon he is able to equip his own ship, and in the last tale caliph invite the legendary navigator and merchant in the palace” [Чиркова Е. В. С.31] [Chirkova E. V. P. 31].