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Title: A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jacob, Robert Urie
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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In this ancient city of Troy,according to Homer, the beautiful Grecian princessHelen, abducted by Paris, the son of the King of Troy,was detained for ten years. The enraged Greeks underUlysses and Ajax, seeking to rescue the princess, be-sieged the city and finally succeeded in entering itsgates and accomplishing their purpose by means of thestratagem of a huge wooden horse. After sailing through the length of the Sea of Marmora,about one hundred and ten miles, we arrived at fiveoclock in the evening within sight of the domes andminarets that crown the promontory at the entranceto the Strait of Bosporus. From the time we caughtour first glimpse of a distant minaret, until the anchorof our steamer was dropped in the channel, everytourist was intent on the picturesque views whichpresented themselves. While the Moltke was steadilymoving onward and our point of view continuallychanging, the dragoman at intervals pointed out thevarious places of interest, now on one side, now on theother.
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(^33) 134 ^ TRIP TO THE ORIENT. The Strait of Bosporus, which we are now approach-ing, is here a Httle over a mile in width, said he. Thepart of the city you see on the headland on the northshore of the Strait is the oldest part of Constantinople,and is called Stamboul. It is occupied principally byTurks, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. The most cele-brated mosques, and also the great bazaars in whichtourists delight to wander, are in Stamboul. That dome with six minarets surrounding it, par-tially hidden by the intervening trees and buildings, isthe Mosque of Ahmed, one of the most interesting inthe city. Beyond it you can see the dome and four min-arets of the more famous St. Sophia. The name of thisis probably familiar to you, for almost every visitorwhom I have escorted has told me that he had heardof the Mosque of St. Sophia. And that is Scutari he continued, calling our atten-tion to the city on the Asiatic shore of the strait. Thegreat square yellow building so prominent on that s

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