Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . he hour of prayer the muezzin sounds shows that the predominating influence is still moststrongly Mohammedan. The horrible streets full of pitfallsand miry clay, the filthy alleys which serve as receptacles,for rubbish and swill, garbage and dead animals of variouskinds, show that insufferable dirt is one concomitant ofTurkish rule. One of our errands while in Adana took us to the Yali orgovernor of the province, for we desired of him passportsand a safe conduct across the country to Con
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . he hour of prayer the muezzin sounds shows that the predominating influence is still moststrongly Mohammedan. The horrible streets full of pitfallsand miry clay, the filthy alleys which serve as receptacles,for rubbish and swill, garbage and dead animals of variouskinds, show that insufferable dirt is one concomitant ofTurkish rule. One of our errands while in Adana took us to the Yali orgovernor of the province, for we desired of him passportsand a safe conduct across the country to us take this walk and visit the Yali too-ether this morn-ing. As we turn out of the mission house, where we aremaking our home, we see at a glance that we are in thevery heart of Turkey. Every person whom we meet, even THE UBIQUITOUS TURKISH FEZ. 517 the occasional foreigner, if he is of the male persuasion,wears the inevitable red Turkish fez, and most of them areclad in baggy trousers and long loose garments which reachbelow the knee. In one of the narrow streets though which. OUR TURKISH PASSPORT. we pass we see the weaver of goats hair plying his tradealmost on the sidewalk. This was the very same material, doubtless, of whichPaul made his tents, and perhaps he wove the cloth in thesame way as this man who runs back and forth from oneend to the other of his long loom, deftly twirling his bobbin 518 IN THE STREETS OP A TURKISH CITY. and twisting the strands of goats hair which afterwards willbe made up into a rough and serviceable cloth. On the other side of the street from the goats hair man-ufacturer is a mill in which sesame oil is being sesame seed is run into a great hopper after beingsoaked for a sufficient time in the vats, and is then groundvery fine beneath the revolving stones which are turned bya tread-mill ox, while the oil, thick and dirty, runs out intothe vats beneath from a crevice in the mill-stone. This oil isvery much prized b
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