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Abdul Hamid, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey. 

 Up to this time this was the first sketch ever made of the 

 Sultan, and might have cost a lot of trouble, to say nothing of 

 human suffering, as high Turkish officials that had helped me 

 procure the Irade were in danger of being put in exile owing to 

 this sketch, and had it not been for the Hon. J. B. Jackson, 

 American Consul at Alexandretta, Turkish spies would have 

 discovered it and my horses and mares been confiscated. As it 

 was, the picture was smuggled onto the ship in a bale of hay. I 

 dare say it's a strong caricature of the Sultan instead of a 

 character study, though that matters little to him now. 



