. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . que, you take offyour shoes and keep on your hat, and, if you would followTurkish use, the same should be done in entering ahouse. If you meet a friend, you do not bow, or touchyour hat, or even shake hands with him, but make threemotions with your hand,—one downward toward theground, one toward the mouth, and one upward to theforehead. It is the pretense of taking up the hem of hisrobe, kissing it, and touching it to your forehead. If th


. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . que, you take offyour shoes and keep on your hat, and, if you would followTurkish use, the same should be done in entering ahouse. If you meet a friend, you do not bow, or touchyour hat, or even shake hands with him, but make threemotions with your hand,—one downward toward theground, one toward the mouth, and one upward to theforehead. It is the pretense of taking up the hem of hisrobe, kissing it, and touching it to your forehead. If theperson whom you salute be of high rank, then you bowlow, almost to the ground, in making the salutation. If 64 NIPPUR. he be of inferior rank, you remain erect, and make arapid pass with your hand, includin<^ the three motionsin one. According to the rank of the person whom youmeet, you make a salutation anywhere between the twoextremes. But these are only small things and among the leastpeculiar of those which the new-comer to Constantinopleobserves. Something more amazing is the way in whicheverything is carried on mens backs. The greater part. ARMENIAN PORTERS CARRYING LARGE CASES OF GOODS. of the streets in Constantinople are not broad enough forthe passage of carriages, and even one loaded horse ormule takes up almost the entire roadway. If you buy apiano in Constantinople, it is more likely than not tocome home on a mans back. One day I met a portercarrying a good-sized marble column, and a few momentslater another passed me carrying a coffin. When the coldweather set in suddenly, as it did by the middle of Octo-ber, you could see processions of men carrying stoves IMPRESSIOXS OF COXSTAXTIXOPLE. 6$ through the streets on their backs. Once I met a mancarrying an iron safe about three feet square. The menwho perform these feats are Armenians, who come fromvarious parts of Asia Minor and Roumeha, and labor atthe trade of porter until they have saved enough moneyto go h


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