The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-26
Pencil Sketches In the East.
(Courier-,Journal)

Here are some light sketches from me
pencil Of an English Traveller in the East,
a few months ago, that have lost none OF
their interest by the developments Oh Inc
last week or two. Instead of going 10
Constantinople through the Sea OF Mar
mora, this traveller had gone TO Narna,
and came down the Black Sea into the
30 sphorous. lie was approaching
Constantinople, when he caught this
glimpse of the Grand Vizier:
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 saddcned by the discomfort OF
voyage, collected into groups as soon as
the morning broke 10 watch the scene
with curiosity and pride. for its beauty
called on deck highly cultivated Pasha.
inc 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 emulation of that
courteous gentleman with the
close cut gray beard and quick glance
through his double gold eye glass, who
spoke French so perfectly, must, now
that by his Grand 'Vlzier, be taken as a
factorin politics. He pointed out the
apparent signs OF wealth and prosperity
with the evidently implied question
trembling on his lips, is the look of a
| man sick beyond recovery?.' With Ed
hem Pasha as statesman | have moth
| ing however now to do, and merely take
an artists liberty to paint him in the
foreground Of my picture, as chancet
to find him. :"
| And here in Constantnople. is brie
view OF the process of making Turkish
| soldiers:
ION 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 it the most meager fare, both a
to quantity and quality, had been tn,
best they could obtain. They shuttle of
i'm uneven file toward Galata; but ii |
surprising how contented and alert they
will appear when they return few hour
hence equipped and armed as soldiers
and or their way to barracks in STAN
. boul."
: And here we come across distin
guished Russians:
sin the street, however, are all the EN-
; bassy palaces, except that OF England
and upon its eXecrabie pavement wer
TO be met. so tull was Constantinople o
notabiities. some three or four in an or
binary stroll. You could scarcely miss
r and would not fail to notice, one sturdy
. martial man, with resolute, restles
face and even watchful eye, Genera
, Ignatietf."
And then comes the sultan on his wa
: to prayers, under a canopy OF crimso
r velvet looped back with golden cords,
r his painted and gilded galley, with not
q ing but its siX-and-twenty silk-clad row
: ers. leaving steam launch going at fu
5 speed far behind even the first hundre
: yards:
. abdul Hamid has slight figure, bu
D.. shrewd as we'll as commanding express
ion. in spite OF i'll health and nervousness
i on his pale, somewhat American face
= with its long features and close blac
: beard, and he seems 10 wonder, az /
!, BOWS courteously, whether the canno
I ! fired by his subjects or the honor pait
4 him by his powerful neighbors, betokel
, the most lasting respect