Eastern Life And Scenery — Mary Adelaide Walker

CONTENTS TO VOL I I LIFE IN THE SERAI My First Portrait Difficult Installation Shimdy Shimdy The Handsome Circassian An Unfortu nate Costume Whereis the Soul The Lay Figure The Wedding Dresses of Two Sultanas The Portrait of an Imperial Princess A Serai on the Bosphorus Waiting The Sultana In the Harem Diamonds and Difficulties Hala iks and Hanums Excellent Order of the Household Oustas Calf as and Children Lining the Quilts Draping the Antary Prosperous Slaves Backshish and Presents Entangled Music Caveh Alti The multiplied Work of the Imperial Kitchen The Teachers of the Harem A CagedBird Destour The Dinner Trays The Military Band Circassian and Georgian Beauties Souzy Dil and her Violoncello Deilferat and her Double Bass The Class of Tumblers An Evening Entertainment The Pantomime The Ball and the Red Bandanas Portrait of a Seraili Beautiful Jewellery 1 II IN STAMBOUL The Bridge Place of Executions The Old Seraglio Alai Kiosk The Guilds of Constantinople Their Patron Saints An Old Stone Bab Houmayoun Fountain of Ahmed III His Inscription St Sophia Construction and Destruction The Samaritan s Well The Hindoo s Tree The Atmeidan 42 III DIVAN YOLOU AND THE BAZAARS A fine Street View The Burnt Column The House of Busbek The Noor Osmanieh Kebabs Bazaar Touters Hadji Osman Fading Splendours Seal Engravers Spoonmakers Mosque of Sultan Baya zid II Ramazan Bazaar The Petted Pigeons Mer chants from the far East Bric â brac 58 IV PERA The Grande Rue Street Commerce A Quiet Corner Bul garian Milkman Maltese Goats Snails and Cuttlefish Milk drinking Lambs Koush Conmaz Caramanian Mutton The Djighirdji and Marco A Dog s District The Bear and his Leader The Schekerdji Mohalibe Oil Lemon Soot and Charcoal A humble Devotee Sakas The Buffalo Cart A Greek Funeral A Quiet Time The Fire Gun Great FireofPera 72 V EVERYDAY LIFE IN A HAREM The Family of the Pasha A Tiny Woman A Sucking General Tchaousch Hanum The Eldest Daughter Turkish Beds Nomadic Furniture Concerning House hold Matters Risk of Fire The Duties and Condition of Hala iks Female Pedlars Life on a Farm in Asia Minor 99 VI EVERYDAY LIFE IN A HAREM Djenâniah Calf a DjemilĞ A Sad Coquette Entangled Interchange of Sentiments An Adventure Reflections Portrait of the Hanum A Venerable Fiance Collection of Antiquities A Brick Tablet Cylinders Seals Gems and Coins Legend of Nimrod Moses Dream of a Sultan Isolation 113 VII A STRAY THREAD FROM YALI KIOSK TO YEDI KOULE A Feeble Line of Rail A Simple Booking Office Patient Passengers The Panorama unwinds Byzantine Remains Gardens of the Old Seraglio A Calm Decay Remains of the Great Palace of Constantine of Justinian of Heraelius BeautifulFragments Ruins of a Palace of Theodosius the Younger Koum Kapou Vlanga Bos tan The Pomegranate Gate Monastery of St John Studius Yedi Koule the Seven Towers Camels The Fortress and State Prisons The Industrial School The Golden Gate 129 VIII THE LAND WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE NO I THE TOWEE OF ISAAC ANGELUS AND THE PEISONS OF ANEMA The Sebil Khane and the Steam Mill The Blachernce r Five Miles of Towers and Battlements The Tower of Isaac Angelus State Prisons of Anemâ A walled up Gate 140 IX THE LAND WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE II TEKFUE SEEAI Eghri capou The Stamboul Taksim Origin of Sou Terazi the Water Towers Interesting Remains Tekfur Serai The Hall of the Emperors History of a Diamond the Tchoban Tashy 147 X THE LAND WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE III FEOM TEKFUE SEEAI TO THE SEA OF MAEMOBA Kerkoporta Useless Destruction View from the Top of the Wall Kachrie Djami The Land Walls of Con stantine The Adrianople Gate The Lycas The Riven Tower An Ancient Burial place of the Gothic Guard A Monster Cannon its requirements its ven geance and its fate Mevlaneh Capoussy Silivria Capoussy The Burial place of Aliof Janiria The Golden Gate A Railway Arch The last Tower of the Land Walls 156 XL BALOUKLI AND THE FESTIVAL OF THE FISHES Up the Golden Horn The Okmei dan Aî wan Serai The Greek Burial ground An Animated Scene Dancing Hamals Laborious Enjoyment Greek Dancing Solemn Gaieties Tchinganas AFuneral The Church of Baloukli The Miraculous Fishes The Fragments of a Festival 168 XII VILLAGE LIFE IN TURKEY Round the Meidan The Meidan The Grey Wooden House The Imam s House and the Battle of the Broomsticks Ibrahim The Rose Coloured House The Ruined House The Yellow Konak Two Cottages 184 XIII THE TURKISH GIRLS SCHOOL The Normal School of Yere Batan Opening Ceremonies A small Medjliss The Drawing Class Room A First Lesson Art Students their Ways and Manners Discord A Tender Infant Practice better than Precept Yavash Cracked Konaks Djenab DeH Fatima Working for the imtihan Emine Fetiye and Munire A Circassian Mother Djemile and Her Work Camma the Abyssinian The Examina tions A Visit to the Home of Djenab Black Coffee and Gossip The Marriage maker Anarchy The Poor Old Mudir 221 XIV THE IFTAR Turkish Society Ramazan The If tar Djemile and Ze he ira How to sit round a Dining table Bouyouroun A Varied Repast Aschourah The Young Hanums Sabiha and the Little Beys Neighbourly Visits Hospitality 249 XV THE GREAT BURIAL GROUND OF SCUTARI The Rustic Cafe Dreamy Influences The Mezarlik Three Little Donkeys and their Driver Ali Baba s Wife The Oil Jars Copper Mangals and Metal Lamps Allah edeen Alnaschar s Eggs A Dream rudely broken A Turbe Tombs and Shrines Reverence Beautiful Epitaphs The Tomb of a Horse Its Extra ordinary Efficacy The Use of a Long Tessbih Gloomy Depths Lingering Rays 271 XVI THE HOWLING DERVISHES The Teke A Venerable Scheik and his Little Son Dis criminate Salutations Devotees Growing Excitement A Pause Infant Faithful Frantic Devotion A HolySanton 282 XVII A STEP EASTWARDS NO I On the Road to Nicomedia In search of the Tomb of Han nibal Church of St Euphemia Elastic Railway Ar rangements The Bay of Kalamitza Ayasma of St John Chrysostom Fanaraki A Summer Palace of Justinian Kaish Dagh Maltepe Tomato Paste Cartal Pendik The Gulf of Ismid Station of Guebseh 290 NO II GUEBSEH The Ruins of Eski Hissar The Baths of Yalova Crusa ders The Baths of Pythia The Turkish Peasant Guebseh Beautiful Mosque The Mezarlık A Hanum of the Good Old Time A Native Repast The Camel Stables 299 XVIII EST THE SERAI NO II Once more in the Serai A Pretty Scene In the Visitors Room Neat Needlework Souvenirs of former Gaieties The Invasion of Crinoline Art under Difficulties The Pocket Sketch book The old Negress and the Sud na Peaceful Pictures The Call to Prayer The Sejjade The Namaz The Prescribed Hours The Tessbih A Dying Halaik Marriage of the Ibrikdar Ousta Prosperous Servitude and Undesirable Freedom Ghevheri 307 XIX THE MIDDLE BRIDGE An Unfashionable Lounge Shores of the Golden Horn Churches and Church Mosques Black Sea Boats Caiques and Mahones A Pasha s Five pair Sandals A Man of War s Boat The Bazaar Caique 322 XX FACTS FANCIES AND FOLK LORE Festival of the Firstborn Turkish Caudle Tchinganas A Splendid Bed and Cradle Naming the Infant Pre cautions against the Evil Eye The use of Incense Dog bread A Faulty Pattern Polite Spitting The Value of Old Shoes and of Blue Beads Breadcrumbs and Scraps of Paper Infused Writing The Seven Holy Nights The Night of Terror The Night of Power Aschourah and Nevrouzie Invention of Con fectionery Garlic and Onions A Kurd s Appreciation Shem and his Bees BalMss Queen of Sheba and her Difficulties Solomon a Basket Maker Concerning Mangals The Origin of the Deluge The Old Woman of Kufa Carrier Pigeons and the Fate of Yezid and Dj ebada Dyvits invented by Enoch 330