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The City of Brousa Return to Civilization Storm The Kalputcha Hammam A Hot Bath A Foretaste of Paradise The Streets and Bazaars of Brousa The Mosque The Tombs of the Ottoman Sultans Disappearance of the Katurgees We start for Moudania The Sea of Marmora Moudania Passport Difficulties A Greek Caique Breakfast with the Fishermen A Torrid Voyage The Princes' Islands Prinkipo Distant View of Constantinople We enter the Golden Horn.
In it the Iman and each of the princes of his numerous family, caused a madalla, or large Umbrella, to be carried by his side; and it is a privilege which, in this country, is appropriated to princes of the blood, just as the Sultan of Constantinople permits none but his vizier to have his caique, or gondola, covered behind, to keep him from the heat of the sun.
In the aft part of this caique is the space allotted for the 'fare, a crimson-cushioned little divan in the bottom of the boat, in which two persons can lounge comfortably. The finish of the caique is often extraordinary finest fret-work and moulding, carved and modelled as for Cleopatra. The caiques of the Sultan are the richest boats in the world, and probably the most rapid and easy.
I do not wonder, after what I have seen of this part of Stamboul, that the cholera made such ravages here a few years since. I should think it would remain a constant scourge. Calling a caïque, we were rowed up the Golden Horn to the Sweet Waters, but its tide floated only our own boat, and the banks lacked the attraction of the gay groups which render the place so lively on Fridays.
Paul shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, but did not translate the Turkish ejaculation to his brother. A boatman stood lounging near them, leaning on a stone post, and following the retreating caïque with his eyes. "Ask that fellow who she is," said Alexander. "He does not know," answered Paul. "Those fellows never know anything." "Ask him," insisted his brother. "I am sure he knows."
They had brought them there to shear and wash the wool in the fresh water, and the ground was covered with large quantities of beautiful long fleece. The shepherds in their strange mantles and head-dresses looked very picturesque as they spread the wool and tended their flocks. Our caïquegee, as the oarsman of a caïque is called, ought not to be overlooked.
The Night of Predestination. Constantinople in Ramazan The Origin of the Fast Nightly Illuminations The Night of Predestination The Golden Horn at Night Illumination of the Shores The Cannon of Constantinople A Fiery Panorama The Sultan's Caique Close of the Celebration A Turkish Mob The Dancing Dervishes. "Skies full of splendid moons and shooting stars, And spouting exhalations, diamond fires."
After three weeks' coasting among the Isles of the Grecian Archipelago, and so into the Sea of Marmora, we steered into the Dardanelles 'twixt the Castles of Europe and Asia; and the same night the Slave-Dealer comes off in a private Caique as the Turks call their Canoes, and the Renegado delivered me up to him.
As he went he laughed to himself, and pulled out Barndale's pipe remembrancer of his mean triumph, since repaired by his own hands. He filled and lit it, smoking calmly as the sturdy caiquejee pulled him across the Golden Horn. Suddenly the caique fouled with another, and there came a volley of Turkish oaths and objurgations. The Greek looked up, and saw Miss Leland in the other boat.
The whole length of it is about seventeen miles, and most delightful excursions are made on it in pretty vessels called 'Caiques. They rest so lightly on the water, that you are never certain of being 'safely stowed. The rowers are splendid-looking fellows from two to four in number, each man with two light sculls, and they sit lightly on thwarts on the same level with the gunwale of the caique.
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