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Show byron' itoatman. . The Greek boatman, Chazes by name, who used to serve Lord Byron has just died at Missolonghi, and been honored with a state funeral by command of the king, the public buildings at Athens being be-ing draped in mourning for this brave survivor of the Greek war of independence. independ-ence. It is si sty-six years siuce Chazes rowed the poet through the storm that caused his fatal illness, but to him Byron remained forever young and forever glorious, glo-rious, as man, as poet and as the would be deliverer of Greece from the yoke of the Turks. Harper's Bazar. i- |