Life and light for woman . TurkeyMissions. They have there 189 missionaries, of whom the Womans Board claims44. Constantinople is the center and headquarters of all this activity, the distributing-point for most supplies. That our readers may have a more definite idea of this im-portant city, most interesting,in many aspects, we give the description of a first view,as painted by Edmondo De Amicis, the Italian traveler and writer.—Ed.] One cannot understand a description of the approach to Constantinoplewithout knowing the configuration of the city. Let the reader suppose thatbefore him is the
Life and light for woman . TurkeyMissions. They have there 189 missionaries, of whom the Womans Board claims44. Constantinople is the center and headquarters of all this activity, the distributing-point for most supplies. That our readers may have a more definite idea of this im-portant city, most interesting,in many aspects, we give the description of a first view,as painted by Edmondo De Amicis, the Italian traveler and writer.—Ed.] One cannot understand a description of the approach to Constantinoplewithout knowing the configuration of the city. Let the reader suppose thatbefore him is the Bosphorus, that arm of the sea which divides Asia fromEurope and unites the Sea of Marmora to the Black Sea. He has the shoreof Asia on the right, of Europe on the left. Having just passed the entrancehe finds at the left a narrow roadstead, which, forming almost a right anglewith the Bosphorus, extends several miles into the European shore, describ-ing a curve like the horn of an ox; hence the name, the Golden Horn, or. VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND BOSPHORUS
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