A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise (1907) (14784803442)

Identifier: triptoorientstor00jacorich (find matches)

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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revealed the position of the enemy. The barking of thedogs and the light of the crescent moon enabled the gar-rison to frustrate the designs of their foes and save thecapital from capture. Since then the nightly bowlingsof the dogs have been tolerated by the Turkish peopleand the crescent has had a place of honor on the Tur-kish banner. To kill a dog is an unpardonable offense.The dogs, however, are not well fed, well groomed pets,fondled, kissed, collared, and blanketed, as in someother countries; but are ownerless, homeless creaturesroaming at night in great numbers through the streetsand sleeping by day on the thoroughfares and sidewalksregardless of passers-by. The people step over or goaround the sleeping animals and do not disturb them.The dogs seem to know their privileges, for they will notmove out of the way. The city is noted for its dogs, not on account of theirbeauty or breed, for they are a disreputable lot of mon-grel curs and bear the marks of many nightly brawls, (iS4)

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(155) 156 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. but on account of the legions of them and their usefulnessas scavengers. At nightfall the residents of Stamboulempty their garbage cans in the streets and the dogs,howling and fighting, dispose of every scrap before day-light. When a Turk desires to express the utmostcontempt for a person he calls him a dog. If you wish to avoid trouble while in this city,cautioned the dragoman, neither disturb a sleeping dogin the highways,—for the dog will resent the inter-ference with his slumbers,—^nor call a Turk a dog, for theanger of a Turk thus reviled is uncontrollable until theoffender who called him by that vilest of epithets isseverely punished. A drive of one and a half miles along the Grand Ruede Galata, one of the wider thoroughfares in Galataparallel to the Bosporus, carried the tourists from thecustom house pier to the gates of the Dolmah BagchehPalace. The entrance to the grounds of the palaceis through a gateway of marble, beautiful in design andr

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