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where the bones of the deceased are laid are 

 covered with very beautiful Cashmere shawls ; 

 indeed the general magnificence of these tombs 

 is beyond concejDtion. 



Death and finery agree but badly together, 

 under any circumstances ; but that such care 

 should be taken of the spots where a set of fel- 

 lows were buried hundreds of years ago, and that 

 great sums of money should still continue to be 

 expended to confer honour upon persons who 

 have long been far beyond its influence, seems 

 almost inconceivably ridiculous. How scoundrels 

 get immortalized, whilst honest men sink quietly 

 into their long rest ! 



A certain sum of money is obliged to be laid 

 out in maintaining pigeons in the mosque-yard 

 of Sultan Bajazet, agreeably to his directions. 

 I am sure that, at the moment of my passing 

 through the yard, there must have been at least 

 fifteen hundred of them hopping and flying about, 



Mustafa, who is the chouash of the British 

 consul-general, Mr. Cartwright, is mentioned in 

 Dr. Walsh's work, whom he accompanied on his 

 journey from Constantinople via Rutschuck and 

 the Rothe Thurm Pass, and likewise by Captain 



