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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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f tying thewretched things. They didnt do it, ofcourse, and one had to slide and skateand straddle to keep from losing them—which thing would be a fearful dese-cration—we being Christian dogs.The Apostle in those slippers, skatingand straddling and puffing his way CONSTANTINOPLE: THE CITY OF ILLUSION 569 through St. Sophias, was worth comingfar to see. It is a mighty place, a grand place,but it has been described too often forme to attempt the details here. It isvery, very old and they have some can-dles there ten feet high and ten inchesthrough (they look exactly like smooth,marble columns and make the place veryholy) and there are some good rugs on had spent five million dollars on the un-dertaking and had nearly bankruptedthe empire. Nine hundred years laterthe Turks captured Constantinople andMohammed II, with drawn sword, rodeinto St. Sophias and made the bloodyhandprint on the wall which remainsthe Moslem rulers sign manual to thisday. They showed us the print, but I I Pirn,
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ONE S AGE, STATED ON OATH, GOES WITH A PASSPORT. the floor. Several of our party who areinterested in such things agreed that therugs are valuable, though they are laidcrooked, as they all point toward Mec-ca, whereas the mosque, originally aChristian church, stands with the pointsof the compass. It has been built and rebuilt a goodmany times. The Emperor Justinianwas its last great builder, and he robbedthe ruins of Ephesus and Baalbek ofcertain precious columns for his purpose.On Christmas Day, 537 a.d., he finishedand dedicated his work. Altogether he dont think it is the same one. It maybe, but I dont think so—unless Mo-hammed was riding a camel. However,it does not matter; what we do know isthat he promptly converted St. Sophiasinto a mosque and said his Mohamme-dan prayers there for the first time on aday in June, 1453. The Mohammedanscovered up the Christian symbols, butmany of them show through the gilt andwhitewash still. Some kind of ceremony was in prog-ress when we arriv

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