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| Miss Pardoe del. | Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. |
| THE CHAPEL OF THE TURNING DERVISHES | |
| Henry Colburn 13 G.t Marlborough St 1837. | |
THE
CITY OF THE SULTAN;
AND
DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE TURKS,
IN 1836.
BY MISS PARDOE,
AUTHOR OF “TRAITS AND TRADITIONS OF PORTUGAL.”
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1837.
LONDON:
P. SHOBERL, JUN., LEICESTER STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
TO HER
TO WHOM PROFESSION AND PANEGYRIC
WERE ALIKE SUPERFLUOUS;
AND FROM WHOM,
DURING MY SOJOURN IN THE EAST,
I WAS FOR THE FIRST TIME SEPARATED—
TO MY LOVED AND LOVING MOTHER,
I DEDICATE THIS WORK.
PREFACE.
In publishing the present work I feel that Ishould be deficient in self-justice, did I not statea few facts relatively to the numerous difficultieswith which I have had to contend duringits compilation.
The language of Turkey, in itself a seriousimpediment from its total dissimilarity to everyEuropean tongue, naturally raises a barrier betweenthe native and the stranger, which is tothe last only partially removed by the interventionof a third person; who, acting as an Interpreter,too frequently fritters away the soul ofthe conversation, even where he does not wilfully