. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. fountain. A few, venturous truants, dis-appeared in the direction of the seraskierat wall, notfar off. The greater number returned to their plane-tree on the right of the lover and the scribe. And asthe lover suggested, and the scribe wrote from rightto left, the pigeons puffed out their breasts andcooed, calling other pilgrims to remember that eventhe sacred have their carnal appetites, and to honorthe poor widows memory before going up to themosque to pray. One day I went up the hill toward Yildiz to see theSelamlik. That morning the sult
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. fountain. A few, venturous truants, dis-appeared in the direction of the seraskierat wall, notfar off. The greater number returned to their plane-tree on the right of the lover and the scribe. And asthe lover suggested, and the scribe wrote from rightto left, the pigeons puffed out their breasts andcooed, calling other pilgrims to remember that eventhe sacred have their carnal appetites, and to honorthe poor widows memory before going up to themosque to pray. One day I went up the hill toward Yildiz to see theSelamlik. That morning the sultan was going topray in the mosque of wood which Abdul Hamidbuilt close to the mysterious, walled-in quarter ofpalaces, harems, kiosks, gardens, barracks, andparks which he made his prison. From the Bosporusyou can see it extending from the hilltop almost tothe sea, a great property, outside the city, yet domi-nating it, with dense groves of trees in were kept, with open spaces, with solitary 2 12 THE COURTYARD OF THE PIGEQNS MOSQUE. -jilyncr.: <^.V- ^\^*-: IN CONSTANTINOPLE buildings and lines of roofs, and the cupola of themosque ot the soldiers. All about it are the highwalls which a coward raised up to protect him andhis fear. The mosque is below the great entrance-gates on a steep hillside beyond the walls. A largemodern house, white, with green shutters, in whichAbdul Hamid used to grant audiences and, I believe,to give banquets, looks down on it. From the upperwindows of this dwelling the Turks say the ex-sul-tan often stared at his city through powerful mosque is not large. It is yellow and white,with a minaret of plaster on the side next the sea,and a graveled courtyard surrounded by green ironrailings and planted with a few trees. On the sidenext to Yildiz is a steep bank. A road runs up thehill to the left of the mosque as you face Yildiz, andanother hidden road descends from the gates andgives access to the courtyard behind the mosque
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