The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-10-27

when travelling, are from railway ac-
cidents; i'll the east, bands of thieves
infest the roads. Here, you have no
unjust judges; there, if involved i'll
litigation, you must bribe the judge,
and arc ut once asked what you will
give. In the Turkish empire, u most
striking feature is the ocialposition,
and the distinction that prevails be-
tween different races You will |
find four or five nations occupying
the same soil, governed by the same
laws and paying the same taxes, yet |
they are all distinct and have moth
ing to do with one another. The
reason why they are so distinct, you
can hardly understand here, there is
no friendship, no intercommunica-
tion and no intermarriage. Here,
the Chinese people are, l believe,
distinct from the other races, but
there is reason for this, because
they propose to return to their homes.
Mohammedanism keeps the east in
state of inaction, and there is spirit
of self-conceit on the Mohammedan
population. They think themselves
superior to any infdel. They say
that Christians are little superior
to fire worshippers and idolaters.
They think civilization of no account,
they won't try to improve; in cases
of plaques they take no sanitary pre-
cautions, believing that they must
die.
The women are denied any rights,
but are placed under the control of
their fathers and brothers. The best
women are those who are least heard.
Nothing irritates more than to see
the way in which they are treated;
their faces are always covered, they
have no education, and, when travel
ling, they are huddled together in a
corner of the stern of the ship, ex-
posed to all kinds of weather. The
cities of the east are generally very
quiet, there is nothing to do and
plenty of time to do it in. There
appears to be no business, as there
are no shops. All buying and selling
is done in bazaars. A bazaar is
series of sheds and alleys rooted in;
the dealers sit in them, and are
never anxious to trade. 1t takes
several hours to buy or sell anything
worth more than So. (The lecturer
then gave an amusing account OF an
attempt to purchase carpet
In government, the only system
was an organized robbery. Tax
gatherers took certain part Of each
mans produce, and more if they
could get it, and different officials
eXacted money under various pre-
texts. There was no justice, and
Turkish officer could rarely be found
who was not open to corruption.
People kept together by their church.
A Greek was man who belonged to
the Greek Church, and an Armenian
belonged to the Armenian Church.
An Armenian bride was allowed to
speak only to her husband for year
after her marriage, to her mother-in-
law for the next two years, and then
to her sisters for the next two years.
He had visited Mount Arrarat, which
was an extinct volcano; there were
craters and cones all around it, the
same as at Haleakala or Maui. 1t is
1900 feet high, and stands in the
middle of large plain, which is
2 400 feet above the sea level.
There is no fruit and but little water,
except what comes from the sfow.
Although all the animals were said
to have been turned loose on Arrarat,
there are none to be seen but few
insects and an occasional hare. The
Armenians believe the ark is on the
top Of the mountain, surrounded by
a fine cloud, and guarded by angels,
and that it is impossible for man
to climb to the top of the mountain.
There was legend that man had
tried to ascend seven times but fell
asleep each time and, on the last,
dreamt that he had been rewarded.
He awoke finding piece of the ark
in his hand, and this piece was now
in the Museum so that the truth of
the story was conclusive.
The lecturer then graphically des-
cribed his own ascent of the mount
ain and the view, extending 800
miles in all directions, from the top.