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Title: Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., W. S. Bryan (etc., etc.)
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INTERIOR VIEW OF A TURKISH HOUSE. ^^Allah herim God is great, leave things to take their course. After sunset, the city is enveloped in darkness, as there is not a single lamp in the streets to lighten the path of the wanderer with the glimmer of a friendly ray. If you do not wish to be devoured alive by the troops of savage dogs which infest the streets, you must carry a lantern; and if your light should happen to go out, you must make the best of it. A distinguished traveller says : — For myself,in a desperate battle which I had with some canine ruffians,
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AROUND THE WORLD. 347. in passing through one of the cemeteries late at night, my light was not only extinguished, but being overpowered by fearful odds, I was obliged to take to my heels, priding my-self more on my chances to escape from their fangs than upon the glory of vanquishing my foes. The channel of the Golden Horn, which comes in from the Bosphorus, divides Constantinople in two parts. On the west side is Stamboul, Constantinople proper, where the Turks reside, and where the principal bazaars are. On the east side are the suburbs of Galata and Pera. Galata lies at the foot of the hill, and is the port to which all Frank vessels resort. It is the residence chiefly of Greeks, while higher up the hill you pass a kind of neutral ground, occupied by the bankers and large merchants of all nations;and continuing your walk higher up, you enter the precincts of Pera, which contains the private residences of the Frank merchants, and the offices of the European ambassadors. Most of the foreig

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