502 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



It has been said that there is a penalty inflicted on 

 the Christian who kills a dog ; but I have seen many 

 killed, and never saw any notice taken of it, more than 

 a passing exclamation of horror, from the passing 

 mussulman. 



A quarantine has now been established at Constan- 

 tinople, one of the effects of which has been the em- 

 ployment of some thousands of carts and horses to 

 carry away the filth and rubbish thrown from the 

 houses. Where the poor dogs are to find' food after 

 this infringement of their ancient rights and privileges 

 as scavengers of the city, it is hard to say ; but the 

 probability is, that they will die by thousands from 

 actual starvation. They are perfectly useless, and the 

 board of health applied to the late sultan for per- 

 mission to kill them ; but he would not grant it, as 

 such a proceeding is contrary to the Koran ; it is one, 

 however, that has been formerly tried. 



In 1613, Napuf Pasha, grand vizier to Achmet the 

 Third, transported all the dogs to Asia, and would 

 have had them there destroyed ; but the sultan, on 

 consulting the Mufti, was told that every dog had a 

 soul, and consequently forbade it. After the destruc- 

 tion of the Janiparies, Mahmoud seems to have in- 

 tended to get rid of them, for he caused an immense 

 number of sausages to be bought, and having poisoned 

 them gave the dogs a feast. Many thousands were 

 thus killed in one day ; but the people murmured so 

 much, that he was afraid to commence a second day's 

 work ; he therefore ordered them to be expelled to 

 Asia, hut the order was very indifferently executed, 

 and they are now again almost as numerous as during 

 the time of the Janiparies. 



In England, a dog is a gentleman compared to one 

 ox these poor miserable outcasts, covered with mange 



