. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. n to the in-evitable. Their dilapidation suggests rather thanmere indifference a sense of the uselessness of unto dust—and there an end! But far off inStamboul the minarets contradict the voices thatwhisper over the fields of the dead. For the land ofthe Turk is the home of contradictions; and amongthem there are some that are welcome. To rid myself of the clinging impression of sad-ness that stole over me among the cypresses ofEyub, I took a boat, later in the day, to the shore ofAsia, and visited the English graveyard at HaidarP
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. n to the in-evitable. Their dilapidation suggests rather thanmere indifference a sense of the uselessness of unto dust—and there an end! But far off inStamboul the minarets contradict the voices thatwhisper over the fields of the dead. For the land ofthe Turk is the home of contradictions; and amongthem there are some that are welcome. To rid myself of the clinging impression of sad-ness that stole over me among the cypresses ofEyub, I took a boat, later in the day, to the shore ofAsia, and visited the English graveyard at HaidarPasha, where long ago Florence Nightingale estab-lished her hospital for soldiers wounded in theCrimean War, and where now Germans have builtan elaborate station from which some day we shallbe able to set out for Bagdad. Already smart cor-ridor cars, with white roofs and spotlessly clean cur-tains, and with Bagdad printed in large lettersupon them, are running from the coast to myste- 262 A VIEW OVER CONSTANTINOPLE SHOWING THEMOSQUE OF SANTA SOPHIA. 1 ., |.nwi.,^,,,|.ii. .pyni;!!!. I .y t liucrw. ..d A I (t, \. ^-. STAMBOUL, THE CITY OF MOSQUES rious places in the interior of Asia. In the excellentrestaurant beer flows freely. If the mystic wordVerboten were not absent from the walls, onemight fancy himself in Munich on entering the sta-tion at Haidar Pasha. On the hill just above thestation lies the English cemetery, a delightful gar-den of rest, full of hope and peace. It is beautifullykept, and contains the home of the guardian, a Brit-ish soldier, who lives with his wife and daughters ina cozy stone bungalow fronted by flower-beds andtrees. Close to his house is a grave with a brokencolumn, raised on a platform which is approached bythree steps and surrounded by a circular I found a serious Montenegrin, one of theworkers in the cemetery, busily employed. He hadspread sheets of paper all over the grass-plot, and upthe steps of the grave, and ha
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