Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . would be some poetic justicein this. While we are waiting for the royal carriage all is bustleand activity, scores and scores of elegant equipages drawnby prancing horses draw up in front of the mosque, and outof these carriages step most gorgeous human butterflies inbewilderingly magnificent raiment. Generals and commo-dores and ambassadors of the highest rank are here blazingwith their decorations and jeweled insignia of office. Herecome three or four beautiful carriages in which are theSultans
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . would be some poetic justicein this. While we are waiting for the royal carriage all is bustleand activity, scores and scores of elegant equipages drawnby prancing horses draw up in front of the mosque, and outof these carriages step most gorgeous human butterflies inbewilderingly magnificent raiment. Generals and commo-dores and ambassadors of the highest rank are here blazingwith their decorations and jeweled insignia of office. Herecome three or four beautiful carriages in which are theSultans wives and some of his daughters. They are notallowed to step out of the carriages, and we can just see theirMack eyes gleaming above their veils as they look out curi- 562 THE SULTANS WIVES AND DAUGHTERS. ously upon the scene, for this is one of the few outingswhich they have in their lives. Then comes the Sultansnephews, the heir apparent to the throne, and his youngerbrothers and cousins, the smaller ones attended by uglyblack eunuchs whose long arms seem to hang down nearlyto their A TURKISH BEAUTY. Into the mosque are now taken the Sultans librarychair, a box containing his clothes, a white dinner service,and numerous other things, until one thinks he is about tomove into the mosque to live; but, no, they will all be takenout again in half an hour and carted home, but everything isplaced there in readiness so that if he expresses the slightestwish it may at once be fulfilled. A MEAN AND CRAFTY-LOOKING RULER. 563 And now look! The band strikes up a martial air ofwelcome, a look of expectancy comes upon every face, andten thousand necks are craned to see the carriage whichcomes slowly down the hill from the palace to the the front seat of this carriage is a noble-looking man insplendid military costume covered with decorations, whoappears every inch a king. But he is not the Sultan. Theother man who sits on the back seat of the carriage,—? thatmean, craft
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