Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . en performed. Beside him, as sup-porters, are two Bin Bashis, or colonels of ortas, in the old janissary corps. These menwear, as part of their official dress, helmets of an enormous height, with a profusionof horse-hair plumes. This singular costume, the Turks say, is intended to concealthe person of the new sovereign from the aim of an assassin, should an attempt be madeupon his life. HUNKAIR, OR UNKIAR ISKELESSI. The most extraordinary title bestowed upon a sovereign is that which the Turkshave conferred upon their own.
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . en performed. Beside him, as sup-porters, are two Bin Bashis, or colonels of ortas, in the old janissary corps. These menwear, as part of their official dress, helmets of an enormous height, with a profusionof horse-hair plumes. This singular costume, the Turks say, is intended to concealthe person of the new sovereign from the aim of an assassin, should an attempt be madeupon his life. HUNKAIR, OR UNKIAR ISKELESSI. The most extraordinary title bestowed upon a sovereign is that which the Turkshave conferred upon their own. They do not, when they speak of him, call himpadescha or sultan, but Hunkair, which signifies the manslayer, and conveys, in oneword, the sense they entertain of the absolute power he is supposed to possess over thelives and properties of his subjects, and the arbitrary manner in which he sometimesexercises it. The Turks confer it as a title of dignity, which conveys no reflection onthe personal character; but during the revolution, the Greeks changed it to Kassapi,. WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 51 the butcher, conveying the same idea of a homicide, but meant as a term of bitterreproach. On the shores of the Bosphorus, opposite Therapia, on the Asiatic side, is one ofthose lovely, and extensive valleys, which open on the strait, and add so much to itsbeauty. Here the sultans possessed a kiosk, to which they sometimes retired forrecreation; and for their accommodation, a scala, or slip, was constructed on which theylanded from the caique: hence the valley has been called Hunkair islcellessi, orthe landing-place of the Manslayer; an appellation rendered famous by the treatyrecently made there. This noble valley is distinguished by other circumstances. When Sultan Selimwished to excite a literary feeling among his subjects, and a printing-press was rearedat Scutari, he converted his kiosk in this place into a manufactory, to supply it withpaper. When first established, i
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