24 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 
Unfortunately there is not sufficient space to dwell on the many 
views shown, and the legends and facts in connection with them. 
The pictures of cemetries were numerous, the tombstones are quaint 
looking slabs, those of the males having fezes on the top: while those 
of the females are ornamented with palm branches. ‘The Turks are 
teetotalers. Before going to worship they are obliged to wash ; a slide 
showing them at their ablutions was shown. ‘The dogs of Constanti- 
nople being its principal scavengers, are a recognized part of its 
population ; and those from one quarter fiercely repel canine intruders 
from another. The dogs shown did not look sweet tempered animals. 
The streets in the interior are not pleasant, if somewhat picturesque. 
They are generaly narrow, dirty and steep. Fire is so frequent 
among the wooden houses that a watchman is ever on the look-out 
from a tower built on the highest ground in the city and called the 
“ Seraskierat,” to give notice of the first spark that might prove a 
conflagration. 
The lecturer continued: “1 had the good fortune to be in 
Constantinople on the Sultan’s birthday ; the illuminations from one 
end of the Bosphorus to the other were the most beautiful I had ever 
witnessed ; as I sat in a steam launch the view was like fairy land. 
The boats used in Constantinople called ‘‘ caiques ” were very small 
and swift. The rowers were excellent ; they would hardly disgrace the 
* College Boat” ; these caiques were so light that we had to sit in 
the exact middle of them ” ; in fact, during his stay in Constantinople, 
he (the lecturer) being constantly obliged to use them, was compelled, 
in order to be completely balanced to part his hair in the middle! 
He went several times to witness the “‘ Dancing Dervishes"”; he was 
three times told that they were not performing ; he never succeeded 
at all in seeing them perform, but he was enabled to witness the 
well-known “‘ Howling Dervishes.”. He then proceeded to give a 
Edescription of the service accompanied by an imitation of the 
#* Howling.” At the “Selamlik ” he saw the Sultan, whose attendants, 
ged pachas and others, ran alongside of his carriage, in a state 
esembling runners at the conclusion of the famous ‘ Shurdington.” 
q i e “Selamlik,” when the Sultan goes to worship at a mosque, takes 
place every Friday at 12. 
_ He witnessed an imposing ceremony : the Greek Patriarch died ; 
was not buried for three days, at the end of which a service took 
place. During this period members of the Greek Church came 
rom all parts of Constantinople to kiss the hand of their revered 
atriarch, He (Mr. Hattersley Smith) was within a few yards of 
