CONTENTS.
xiii
|
| |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | |
| THE SOLEMNITIES OF BAIRAM. | |
| The Appearance of the New Moon — The Festival of Bairam — The Interior of the Seraglio — The Pomp of the Sultan's Court — Reschid Pasha — The Sultan's Dwarf — Arabian Stallions — The Imperial Guard — Appearance of the Sultan — The Inner Court — Return of the Procession — The Sultan on his Throne — The Homage of the Pashas — An Oriental Picture — Kissing the Scarf — The Shekh el-Islam — The Descendant of the Caliphs — Bairam Commences | 332 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
| THE MOSQUES OF CONSTANTINOPLE. | |
| Sojurn at Constantinople — Semi-European Character of the City — The Mosque — Procuring a Firman — The Seraglio — The Library — The Ancient Throne-Room — Admittance to St. Sophia — Magnificence of the Interior — The Marvellous Dome — The Mosque of Sultan Achmed — The Sulemanye — Great Conflagrations — Political Meaning of the Fires — Turkish Progress — Decay of the Ottoman Power | 343 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | |
| FAREWELL TO THE ORIENT — MALTA. | |
| Embarcation — Farewell to the Orient — Leaving Constantinople — A Wreck — The Dardanelles — Homeric Scenery — Smyrna Revisited — The Grecian Isles — Voyage to Malta — Detention — La Valetta — The Maltese — The Climate — A Boat for Sicily | 355 |
| CHAPTER XXX. | |
| THE FESTIVAL OF ST. AGATHA. | |
| Departure from Malta — The Speronara — Our Fellow-Passengers — The First Night on Board — Sicily — Scarcity of Provisions — Beating in the Calabrian Channel — The Fourth Morning — The Gulf of Catania — A Sicilian Landscape — The Anchorage — The Suspected List — The Streets of Catania — Biography of St. Agatha — The Illuminations — The Procession of the Veil — The Biscari Palace — The Antiquities of Catania — The Convent of St. Nicola | 363 |
