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foot. In passing, he made continual bows to the right 
and left, with so exact a precision, that he might have 
been taken for an automaton. 
I went the same day to the Friday's prayer at Aya 
Sophia; there is no particular ceremony observed here 
unless it be a long sermon after prayers, which is de- 
livered by one of the doctors, from a very lofty pul- 
pit. Whilst I was attending very devoutly to this dis- 
course, the officer who was the chief of the Captain 
Pacha's table, and whom I had known at Alexandria, 
recollected me and came to me; he offered a thousand 
proofs of his attachment to me, and kissed my hands 
and feet. 
The other mosques and chapels worthy of some at- 
tention at Constantinople, are — 
The tourbeh, or sepulchre of the Sultan Abdoulha- 
mid, the father of the Sultan Monstapha. It is a fine 
octangular chapel, in which the faithful revere a black 
stone set in silver, and placed in a niche, and upon 
which is preserved the prints of the Prophet's feet, as 
if upon a mass of soft wax. 
The mosque Yenid Djeami, decorated with the finest 
marbles, is merely an exact copy of Aya Sophia. 
The tourbeh or sepulchre of the Sultan Soliman is 
a handsome octangular chapel, similar to that of Ab- 
doulhamid, though less magnificent. It is situated in 
the middle of a small garden, by the side of the 
mosque of the same Sultan, called Soulimania; to go 
to it I passed a sort of platform which commands a 
part of the city; the port, the suburbs of Galata, &c. 
which form together a most enchanting view. From 
thence, after crossing a large court adorned with a 
peristyle, supported by columns of red granite, I en- 
tered the body of the mosque, which is also a little 
