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A CRUSADE IN THE EAST. 
the summer by the wealthier classes. Among these are the 
Sweet Waters of Europe, and the Sweet Waters of Asia, the 
villages of the Bosphorus, the Isles of the Princes, and various 
places in the country, within a few miles of the city. Steam¬ 
ers now ply all along the shores of the Bosphorus, to the 
Prince’s Isles, to the seaport town nearest to Brusa, and other 
ports along the Sea of Marmora. There are also, for the 
poorer classes, large omnibus caiques, in which, for a few 
paras, they can be landed at any village on the Bosphorus, 
from the Golden Horn to Bayukdere. 
