Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . A TURKISH WOMAN. the timid, mean-faced Sultan of the present day, who daresnot go to mosque without ten thousand soldiers to insure hissafety, and who, with all his cruel tyranny, is ready to col-lapse with terror, when a foreign nation so much as whispersthe word ironclad in his ear! Before we leave Asia for the shores of Europe, we mustmake a brief excursion to Broussa, one of the most remark-able as one of the most beautiful cities of the OttomanEmpire. A lovely sail of half a day brings us to
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . A TURKISH WOMAN. the timid, mean-faced Sultan of the present day, who daresnot go to mosque without ten thousand soldiers to insure hissafety, and who, with all his cruel tyranny, is ready to col-lapse with terror, when a foreign nation so much as whispersthe word ironclad in his ear! Before we leave Asia for the shores of Europe, we mustmake a brief excursion to Broussa, one of the most remark-able as one of the most beautiful cities of the OttomanEmpire. A lovely sail of half a day brings us to the port of 566 A BRAVE AND WISE SULTAN OF OLD. this ancient capital of the Moslem. Here Ave find Moham-medanism at its best. The mosques are spacious and mag-nificent. Quite an attempt is made in the line of educationfand the magnificent scenery, the pure air, and grand oldOlympus (not the Olympus of classic fable, but a very re-spectable mountain, nevertheless) which forms a backgroundto the city, all seem to have left their impress upon the rul- Sftlfe. a sultans tomb. ing race, and nowhere are Moslems more courteous and lessfanatical than in this their ancient capital. Here, as long ago as the year 1326, after a ten-yearssiege, Broussa capitulated to the troops of Othman, and herethe great Sultan was buried soon after, for it was his dyingwish that he should be interred at Broussa, the new capitalof his mighty empire. The sword of Othman is still sacredlytreasured at Constantinople, and each Sultan in his turn, ashe comes to the throne, has the sacred blade of the founderof his empire buckled to his belt by wa}? of coronation. THE TOMB OF BLACK OTHMAN. 567 Happy would it have been for his successors, and the em-pire which they govern, if his descendants had been as brave,as far-seeing, and as simple in their habits as their greatancestor. Simple in his dress, his figure was Longimanus, his arms reached below his knees, histhighs were those of a horseman, and
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