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Identifier: edgeoforient00russ (find matches)
Title: The edge of the Orient
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Robert Howard
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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alt anhour the Sultan remains at prayer, while the vis-itors in the guard-house are regaled with coffeeand cigarettes as the guests of his Majesty. When he comes out from the mosque he stepsinto a small open landau, drawn by a pair of horses,and, taking the reins in his own hands, drivesquickly back through the gate to the palace, thegrooms following with the led horses. Thenthe horses are again hitched to the broughamsin the yard, and the ladies of the household aretrundled back to the harem after their exciting-morning, and the pale little princes, in patent-leather riding boots and tight-fitting uniforms,follow along on their beautiful Arab steeds; andwhen all are safelv in the palace grounds and thegreat gates are closed the trof^ps march away,with bands playing and banners flying, and thevisitor is allowed to emerge from the guard-h(nise.It seems incredible that the ruler of a greatnation sht)uld be content to live in such seclusion,and thnnigh his personal cowardice vc^luntarily
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Constantinople deprive himself ol all kn of his peopleand his State, save such as he can gain within thewalls of his palace from his ministers and ad-visers. I ha\e been told by a Turk, who hasaccess to the Sultan and knows him well, that hehas often seen his Majesty upon the streets of thecitv disguised by a false gray beard and followedby one or two faithful attendants, endeavoring todiscover for himself the real condition of his caj)-ital and his people in the manner of Ilaroun alRaschid, the Caliph of Bagdad ; but I doubt il thisbe an\-tliing more than a kindl\-lable devised b\-a loyal subject to relieve his ruler from the con-tumacy attaching to his timorous behavior. Near the Yildiz Kiosk, and connected with itby a bridge over the roadwax, is the Ialacc ofClieragan, where Abdid I lameds brother andjjredecess(jr, tlie deposed Sult;iii Murad \., issupposefi to be confined, and wlicie Sultan Ab-dul A/i/, the uncle of Murad and Abdul iiaiucd,died by his own hand a l

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