New-York daily tribune., 1856-04-25

unity fsr above the seDsual MANSIONS " Vno "u.
sulmsI's heaven. LabOring or Journeying' 10 'us
caravan or in the camp, he chenshes every" "hore
the devotional spirit peculiar 10 the Onentas' ana
10, King the ablutions with sand where water can
NOT be obtained, permits thing shor: OF absolute
necessity TO interfere with be inyccaIions 10 ALLAH
AID the Prophet. -.
WHEN fret came on deck | noticed several oil
nv Moslem comragnOzs da c0ydge engaged IN thelr
expistory Illustrations and morning prayers. IL
yss an iGpres sive sight 10 see those simple cnii
1rcn Of Nature pously stretching their haha'
tow ard the fading stars. None could nave UeeH
more earnest. none more sincere than th-!'
"tTsnsscting in their peculiar manner 'he s'o''
business Of salvation
Then occurred a scene which gave me lasting
impression of the devotional character OF lslaIn'
but. in the connection, appeared strangely !aui-
crous Among the passengers there was wealth!
Turk from one Of the Dsnublan cities, on pil-
ptiuspe 10 Hebron with his four handsome wives
balEa.dozen children, and man-servants An MAD.
,eryabts cannot say how many. The Enehdi
wssa man of rank. and lad taken evident pleasure
the d,y previous in showing NE the gold watcn
nre,ented him by his sovereign. His servants nad
brouobt the ewers Of iresh water, the gold-eui-
broidered napkins and spread the piece OF fer'Iih
Garnet. on which the Efiend, after having per
formed tie ablutOns and determined by the cOm-
pass the direction OF Mecca, bowed revereh'!
toward the Holy City. The storm had driven us
a few miles from our course, and the steamer
changed her direction for the highlands OF the DOS
phorus a moment after my MOsem friend began
ii, deyotions. The Nubisn touched his masters
shoulder liphtls aud informed him that he was no
longer prsI ing in the direction of Mecca. Ihe
Efepdi arose at once, looked again at the COM
pass and rearrabging the carpet, went through
the prescribed prayers. as unmndtul OF our pres
ence as if he had been w0rshiping IN the 80 ltude
Of SAHARA. There is q sleepy, unsplrltusl sosorp'
ton n Oriental worship; there is something Phari-
saical in this parade of prayer; but OF one thing
] am certain: the MOsiem If never ashaneu VI
;be religion of the Prophet
We are near the Bcsphorus. The shore is bold
and rugged. both on the European and the Asatc
side. The highest elevations separated from each
other by wooded rsvines, here barren and there
crowned with forests can hardly be called noun
taips. but are the fOreruuneIs of the mighty He
mus and Bihy Dian Olympus, irowning Gt each other
across the BosphOrus, or shaking hands beneath
its placid furface The fortresses OF kil!a ana
Riva the former on the European, the latter on the
Asiatc side, are the outworks guarding the entrance
of the Bosphorus. Two or three villages can be
seen terched like eagles nests upon the rocky
slopes Of the prOmontOrles.
On tie summit Of hight on the European
shore is situated a large, ancient, round tower,
which Domysiss called the Turns TmGd, but was
in reality the old Pharos from which torches were
held UP at night TO save vessels navigating the
Black Sea from being shipW rocked on the Cyane-
an rocks at the entrance of the BosPhorus, or on
the Ihracian coast. The former were called Cy-
alaan or blush, from their color and alsO the
Symplecades OF rocks striking together. The
story OF their mobility doubtless arose from the
fact that, rising scarcely six feet above the sur
face, they appear and disappear as the waves pass
over them. That, however was n splendid point
for the poet of antiquity, who represents Jason as
steering out boldly upon the EuXine IN accordance
with the advice of King Pbintas, but the treach.
erous Sympegades closing before his vessel had
passed between them, she lost part OF her
stern, MISUNDERSTANDING nautical for poetlcal
aneuaqe-simply means that the Argo struck q
rock and unslipped her rudder
From the wdDess of the coast | can readily
believe that the ancient inhabitants, barbarous
and cruel people used to light fires in the most
dangerous places in order fatally to decoy the
mariner.
We enter the BOsphOrus and soon sweep by the
ancient FGunum, or Heron, where once stood
temple to the Twelve Gods, and where the Egean
Pbry pos and sfterward Jason. on his return from
Colchis dedicated sltars and instituted sacrlhces.
Nothing however can now he seen OF the temple
of Zeus and PosidOn on the Asiatic side, or that
of Scraps and Cybele opposite. The Straits OF
Heron, between One-thrd and one-haf mile IN
width, are the narrowest part OF the B0sphorus
Here from the earliest times were the Outposts OF
its shores against the attacks Of northern barba-
rsns: here also il was that vessels sailing III aud
out of the Euxine were obliged to pay toll TO the
masters of the adjacent nights. After the devel-
opmCnt of the maritime power of Athens, BY
zance with the Pontic and Tablespoonful cities,
became ner tributary. To pay the annual tribute
demanded by the former, the ByZantlnes IN turn
levied tribute upon all yessels passing through
the BOsphorus. And 10 show the extent OF the
commerce then floating through this channel,
NAV state that the distant RhVdisns demanded an
exemption from the payment of the BOsphorus
Dues" and finally obtained such an exemption on
the ground that they were exclusively maritime
and commercial people. AZ much later date
Heron became the theater of frequent Byzantine
and Venetian contests. The Genoese obtained
possession of the Straits Of Heron in the four
teeuth century, and the remains Of their castles
are still 10 be seen on the opposite Nights Inc
Herul appeared here in the year 24o A. D., win
five hundred boats. At this point the Uo'ns
crossed over into Bithynia. The Russians ad-
y.nced as far ss Heron the first ue in c65, again
in 94l, and in the year 1882, 25, 900 Muscoylte
troops landed not far below and encamped on the
plais of Scutari as allies Of the Turks 10 prevent
C0stsntinople from falling into the hands OF Mo-
hamm,d Ali A point Of land on the Aslatlc sue
was in ancient times called the Anchor Cape, from
the tradition that Jason took stone anchor from
that spot. 1t afterward became shrine, and I'll.
timately the pious Byzantines made SAINT OUT ol
the reputed anchor of the Argo Strange how
the vestice. of heathenism are mingled with the
ussges of the Eastern Christians how hoary tenn
pies have been converted into churches, and the
Olympian gcds baptized into Greek and Latin
saints, The Immaculate Virgin has u.urped the
place of the Artful Venus, Jupiter has laid aside
| his Homeric thunderbots, Mars las put of the
/ IL .k;l;ra,ts of vrar snd tha fAhlQ's once