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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ince, but they werea dream of luxury as compared withthese of Turkey. Our carriages bil-lowed and bobbed and pitched andhumped themselves until I got out andwalked to keep from being lamed forlife. And then the houses—the villas Ihad expected to see; dear me, how can Ipicture those cheap, ugly, unpainted,overdecorated architectural crimes?They are wooden and belong to the jig-saw period gone mad. They suggest anowner who has been too busy savingmoney for a home to acquire any taste,who has spent his savings for lumberand trimmings and had nothing left forpaint. Still, he managed to reserveenough to put iron bars on his windows—that is, on part of the house, theharem—every man becoming his ownjailer, as it were. I remarked: I suppose that is to keep the neigh-bors from stealing their wives. But the Horse Doctor—wiser andmore observant—said: No, it is to keep a neighbor frombreaking in and leaving another. Standing on the top of Bulgurlu—looking down on the Bosphorus and the
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THERE IS A WONDERFUL OLD MOSLEM CEMETERY NEAR BULGURLU ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD AND THE MOST THICKLY PLANTED. 57* THE OUTING MAGAZINE royal palaces—the wife of a foreign min-ister told us something of the historythat has been written there: When Abdul Aziz, in 1876, becameAbdul as was * (his veins were openedwith a penknife, I believe), one Murad,his nephew, an educated and traveledprince, came into power. But Muradwas for progress—bridges and railroads—so Murad retired to Cheragan Pal-ace, where for thirty-two years he satat a window and looked out on a worldin which he had no part, while AbdulHamid II reigned in his stead. Muradwas wise and gentle and did not re-proach Abdul, who came to him nowand again for advice concerning mattersof state. But Murad was fond of watching thepeople from his window—excursion par-ties such as ours, and the like—andthese in turn used to look up at Mu-rads window; which things in timecame to Abdul Hamids ears. ThenAbdul decided that th

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