The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-26
Pencil Sketches i'm the East.

Here are some light sketches from the
pencil Of an English traveller in the East,
few months ago, that have lost none OF
their interest by the developments OF Inc
| last week or two. Instead of going to
Constantinoplc through the Sea OF Mar
mora, this traveller had gone TO Narna,
and came down the Black Sea into the
Bosphorous. lie was approaching
| Constantinople, when he caught this
glimpse of the Grand Nizier:
mo wonder the crowd OF provincial
| Turks. who had made their beds on
deck, rolled up their mattresses, and
with their many colored garments some
what Slddened by the discomfort of a
voyage, collected into groups as soon as
the morning broke TO watch the scene
with curiosity and pride. for its beauty
called on deck highly cultivated Pasha,
who was received with respect on conf
| ing on board the night before. The at
| tention to him would, no doubt. have
| been doubted had it been forseen that
three months would make him first
subject OF the empire :. and
the unconcealed exultation of that
courteous gentleman with the
close cut gray beard and quick glance
through his double gold eye glass, who
that by his Grand VIzier, be taken as a
factorin politics. lie pointed out the
apparent signs OF wealth and prosperity
with the evidently implied question
trembling on his lips, lis the look OF a
man sick beyond recovery, With Ed
hem Pasha as q statesman | have moth
ing however now to do, and merely take
an artists liberty to paint him in the
foreground OF my picture, as | CHANGED
to find him."
And here in Constantinople. is brief
view OF the process of making Turkish
soldiers:
.'On one side Of the way train of re-
cruits Is landing from the Scutarl boat.
< The recruits are tattered and
travelworn; some OF them have evidently
marched from the tar interior of Asia
Minor to reach the rendezvous, and all
look as if the most meagcr fare, both as
to quantity and quality, had been the
best they could obtain. They shuttle off
in uneven file toward Galata; but ii Is
surprising how contented and alert they
| will appear when they return few hours
hence equipped and armed as soldiers,
and OR their way to barracks in SIAM
boul."
| And here we come across distin-
guished Russian:
SIN the street, however, are all the em-
bassy palaces, except that OF England;
and upon its eXecrable pavement were
| TO be met. so full was Constantinople OF
notabilities, some three or four in an or
binary stroll. You could scarcely miss,
and wo1ld not fail to notice, one sturdy,
martial man, with resolute, restless
face and even watchiul eye, General
| Ignatief."
And then comes the sultan on his way
| to prayers, under a canopy OF crimson
velvet looped back with golden cords, il
his painted and gilded galley, with moth
ing but its six-and-tweniy silk-clad row
ers. leaving steam launch going at full
speed far behind even the first hundred
yards
abdul Hamid has slight figure, but
| shrewd as well as commanding express
| ion, in spite OF i'll health and nervousness
| on his pale, somewhat American face.
with its long features and close black
| beard, and he seems TO wonder, as he
bows courteously, whether the cannon
fired by his subjects or the honor paid
him by his powerful neghbors, betoken
| the most lasting respect