Constantinople Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME II. Photogravures by W. H. GiLBO. PAGE Girl Of The Harem Frontispiece. Turkish Lady 11 Lemonade-seller 19 An Outing Of The Women Of The Harem 21 Dancing Girls 45 Turkish Firemen 79 Water-seller 85 Aqueduct Of Valens 96 Mosque Of The Chora 110 Dervish 120 Interior View Of The Seven Towers 127 View Of Interior Of The Seven Towers 133 Panorama Of The Seraglio 147 A Turkish Woman 184 Gateway Of The Imperial Palace At The Sweet Waters Of Asia 194 Panorama Of Mosque Of Bayezid 218 Ancient Fountain At Skutari 223 Cemetery Of Eyob And View Of The Golden Horn . 229 5 6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Turbeii Of The Mosque Shazadeh 235 Tombs Of Mahmod II. And Of His Son Abdul Aziz . 237 Coffee-makers 245 Bosphords: View Of Shores Of Asia And Europe . . 271 Mosque Of Valiiikh At Ok Serai 275 Sweet Waters Of Europe 280 Entrance To The Black Sea ■ 293 TURKISH WOMEN. TURKISH WOMEN. On arriving in Constantinople for the first time, one is much surprised, after all he has heard of the thraldom of the Turkish women, to see them, everywhere and at all hours of the day, coming and going with apparently the same freedom as the women of any other city in Europe. It seems as though all these imprisoned swallows must that very day have been given their liberty, and a new era of freedom and independence dawned for the fair sex among the Mussulmans. At first the impression is very odd: one is in doubt whether all these females enveloped in white veils and long, variously-colored mantles are nuns or masqueraders or lunatics; and, as you never by any chance see one of them accompanied by a man, they seem not to belong to any one, being all, apparently, young girls or widows or inmates of some huge asylum for the "unhappily married...".