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The oars all dip into the water with one stroke, the rowers rise as one man, and fall back into their places in the same perfect time. A number of elegant barges and kaiks follow the procession. The flags of the Turkish fleet and merchant-ships are hoisted, and twenty-one cannons thunder forth a salutation to the Sultan.
When the bustle of life began, on the shore and on the sea, my eyes scarcely sufficed to take in all I saw. The "Golden Horn" became gradually covered as far as the eye could reach with a countless multitude of kaiks.
Heaven be praised, my fears were never realised. Scutari Kaiks The howling Dervishes The Achmaidon, or place of arrows The tower in Galata The Bazaar at Constantinople Mosques Slave-market The old Serail The Hippodrome Coffee-houses Story- tellers Excursion to Ejub Houses, theatres, and carriages.
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