. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. r sight-seeing, and little boatssoon carried us to the custom house pier on the Galataside. Open carriages drawn by wiry Turkish horsesand driven by Turkish drivers were there in readinessto carry us across the Golden Horn to explore the sightsof Stamboul. As our carriages rattled over the plankpontoon bridge with its drawbridge in the center, weparsed through a crowd of people moie varied as tonationality and costume than can be seen at almost anyother place on the globe. The Turks, of course, pre-dominated, their nationality being
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. r sight-seeing, and little boatssoon carried us to the custom house pier on the Galataside. Open carriages drawn by wiry Turkish horsesand driven by Turkish drivers were there in readinessto carry us across the Golden Horn to explore the sightsof Stamboul. As our carriages rattled over the plankpontoon bridge with its drawbridge in the center, weparsed through a crowd of people moie varied as tonationality and costume than can be seen at almost anyother place on the globe. The Turks, of course, pre-dominated, their nationality being indicated by thenational head-gear,—^the red fez. The wealthier Turkswore the English style of clothing and the red fez. Thecostumes of the other classes varied according to their CONSTANTINOPLE. 141 occupation. On the bridge as our driver guided histeam through the throng, we saw Turkish soldiers inblue uniforms and red fez; Moslems wearing a greensash around the fez to indicate that they had performeda pilgrimage to Mecca; stately-looking bearded Greek. A STRUCTURE DIFFERING IN DESIGN FROM ANY OTHERCHRISTIAN TEMPLE. priests in black robes and peculiar hats; Nubians withblack glistening skins and tattooed faces; Moslempriests with pure white turbans, and Moslem priestswith high green turbans; Russian or Hungarian peasantswith coats of sheep skin, the fleecy sides of which were 142 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. turned inward; Dervishes in brown mantles, and high-coned brown hats without brims; Hebrews in longyellow coats and little curls at the sides of their heads;Turks in gold embroidered trousers and jackets and longflowing blue sleeves; Turkish women with faces closelyveiled, and negro women who concealed their featuresbehind white veils in the same manner as the Turkishwomen. Those cakes looked so good, I was almost temptedto take one off the tray, said one of the occupants of ourcarriage, as a peddler carrying on his head a table filledwith cakes and pastry passed so closely th
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