Hamal or common porter in turban, shirt, pants and gaiters. Turkish or Armenian porters in Pera carry their burdens on the back between hips and shoulders. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander’s translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M’Lean, London, 1814.

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