History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Tound. Behind him were the reeds and the drum; in the rearmarched a standard-bearer, and in his hands was borne aloft the flagwhich bore the emblems of the crescent and the cross. At sight ofthe lad the bystanders turned pale with excitement, and every minutesome one, enchanted by the rough melody and the dancer, fell silentlyinto the proce
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Tound. Behind him were the reeds and the drum; in the rearmarched a standard-bearer, and in his hands was borne aloft the flagwhich bore the emblems of the crescent and the cross. At sight ofthe lad the bystanders turned pale with excitement, and every minutesome one, enchanted by the rough melody and the dancer, fell silentlyinto the procession w^hich followed the banner. A strange cortege,truly: Softas, Armenians, Old and New Turks, Greeks, and EomanCatholics, some with fez and others in turban, some with straw hats andothers with bare heads, — all following the lead of the frantic when the air grew livelier, or his gyrations more rapid, when heraised his own voice and gave a loud cry of anguish, knives, pistols,sticks, swords, were lifted high in the air or flourished round by thosemore moved than the rest. When was such a spectacle ever beheldbefore in the city of the sultan, under the very shadow of the great 1 Notes and Queries, 4tli series, vol. viii., 1870, p. OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 67 mosque of St Sophia ? The device was successful, and band afterband was forwarded to the seat of war.^ The great standard won by the Eling of Poland from the infidelsin 1683, at Kalemberg, was about eight feet in breadth, rounded atthe fly, and of a green and crimson stuff, of silk and gold tissuemixed, bearing a device in arabesque characters signifying, There isno God but God, and Mahomet is his Prophet. The ball on the topof the staff, about the size of a mans joined fists, was of brass standard was presented by the King of Poland to the Pope, whocaused it to be suspended from the roof of St. Peters, by the side ofanother standard taken from the infidels at the battle of
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