Turkish Memories

by Sidney Whitman

INDEX

• Abdul Aziz, [20], [27], [163], [181], [234], [238], [258]
• Abdul Hamid, and the Marquis of Salisbury, [1];
  • works of, [8], [51]–[54],[164]–[166];
  • and the Armenians, [20], [57];
  • and the Germans, [22], [270];
  • and Ahmed Midhat Effendi, [25], [26];
  • popularity, [27]–[28], [180]–[182], [238]–[239], [243];
  • and Dr. Hepworth, [60]–[61], [128]–[129];
  • and Mr. Whitman, [30]–[35], [51], [61], [170];
  • and the Press, [148]–[149];
  • deposition, [150], [177]–[178];
  • ceremony of the Selamlik, [154]–[158], [178]–[182];
  • account of, [159]–[182];
  • promise of Nicholas of Russia to, [162], 277 and note;
  • personality, [166]–[167], [234], [237]–[238], [254]–[255];
  • and Mr. Whittaker, [171];
  • and Professor Vambéry, [171]–[172];
  • audiences, [179]–[180];
  • stories of his diplomacy,184;
  • spies of, [201];
  • and the Fehim Pasha incident, [264], [266]–[267], [270];
  • mentioned in Professor Vambéry’s letters, [285], [286]–[287], [288]–[292];
  • William II and, [294]–[295]
• Abdul Medjid, [261];
  • reforms of, [229]–[230]
• Abraham Pasha, [19]–[20]
• Abyssinia, Christian monasteries of, [254]
• Adrianople, peace of, 1829, [106]
• Ahmed Midhat, account of, [25]–[28], [235]–[236];
  • letter in Turkish to Mr. Whitman, [107]–[108];
  • conversations with, [216]–[224], [225], [247], [257], [265];
  • stories of Mohammed’s life told by, [258]–[260]
• Aintab in Syria, [63], [112], [114]
• Aja Sophia of Constantinople, [28], [87]
• Ala Dagh, the, [105]
• Alaskird, [97]
• Albanian Redifs, the, [45], [155]
• Albanians in Salonica, [40]
• Albigenses, the, [262]
• Albrecht, Archduke, [182]
• Alexander of Battenberg, Prince, and the Mohammedan element, [242]
• Alexander of Servia, [59]
• Alexandretta, [63], [81], [115]–[117]
• Alidjekrek affair of 1896, [97]
• Ambassadors in Constantinople, position of, [186]–[169];
  • types, [189]–[193];
  • social life, [193]–[194];
  • Turkish, [194]–[195]
• American element in Erzeroum, [99]–[100];
  • interest in Anatolia, [121] and note
• Anatolia, the mission to, [60];
  • reforms, [63], [70], [76], [79]–[81], [278];
  • prosperity, [165];
  • German interests, [295]
• Anatolian Railway, the, [268], [275] and note
• Anatolius, General, [90]
• Anglicans, [228]
• Angora, prosperity of, [165]
• Arab types in Turkey, [233], [248]
• Aram Aramian, arrest, [97]
• Ararat, Mount, [109]
• Arians, the, [223]
• Armenak Dermonprejan, arrest, [97]
• Armenia, military service in, [75]–[76];
  • people of, [118]–[119], [120] and note
• “Armenian Atrocities,” rising of 1895–6, [70]–[79], [170];
  • the outbreak in Constantinople, [10]–[35]
• Armenian Cemetery, Constantinople, [18]
• Armenian Committees, [13], [74], [127]
• Armenian schools, [63], [66], [75], [99], [127]
• Armenians in Turkey, [228], [231]
• Arms from Russia seized, [97]
• Arsenal (Tophanè), Constantinople, discovery of bombs, [24]
• Arson in Constantinople, [243]–[244]
• Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis, [48], [53]–[55]
• Aspern, [182]
• Asquith, Mr., and the Eucharistic procession in London, [213]
• Austria-Hungary, Turkish policy of, [275]
• Austrian Double Eagle March, the, [156]–[157]
• Avellis, Hugo, in Constantinople, [204]–[248];
  • knowledge of Turkish character, [239]–[240];
  • stories of Turkish women, [257]–[258]
• Azarian, Armenian banker, [20]
• Azerbaijan, [296]
• Bagdad Railway, [269], [277]
• Bahri Pasha, Governor-General of Van, fired on, [74]
• Baiburt, [85]–[86]
• Bajezid, Sultan, mosque of, [8]
• Balkan War, [295]
• Balls in Constantinople, [197]–[198]
• Baptists, [228]
• Batoum, [67]
• Bayazid, [105]
• Bazar de Secours, [52]–[53]
• Bebek, [169]
• Begler-Bey, Palace of, [139], [159]
• Beikos, [27], [257]
• Beilan, [116]
• Belgrade, [59]
• Belisarius, [183];
  • sayings of, quoted, [160]
• Benedek, Field-Marshal, [182]
• Bennett, Mr. Gordon, [10]–[11], [15], [40], [57]–[59], [129]
• Bergholz, Mr. Leo, American Consul at Erzeroum, [99]
• Berlin, Congress of, [278]
• Bernhardi, General, [286]
• Beschiktasch, [142]
• Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, [162];
  • and Abdul Hamid, [177];
  • and the Fehim Pasha incident, [264]–[247]
• Bigham, Clive, [48], [55]
• Birds, shooting of, [254]–[245]
• Biredschik, [63], [111]–[112]
• Bismarck, Prince, opinion on the Cretan situation, [1]–[2];
  • the Sultan’s message to, [34]–[35];
  • and Gortschakoff, [188];
  • and Détaille’s picture, [215];
  • diplomacy, [270]–[271], [272];
  • on the position in the East, [279]
• Bitlis, [63], [77], [88], [91], [96], [120], [132];
  • the road to, [101]–[110];
  • report of the English Vice-Consul, [122]–[123]
• Black Sea, [65], [82]
• Blunt, Mr. J. P., [47]–[48]
• Bodenstedt, Friedrich, quoted, [277]–[278]
• Bombs, discovery in Constantinople, [24]
• Bosphorus, the, [92], [141], [278]
• Bournous, the, [113]
• Bribery, charges of, [80]
• Bucharest, diplomacy in, [189]
• Büchner, [237]
• Budapest, 285 (note)
• Budapest University, [283]
• Bulgarians, Uniate, [228]
• Burton, Sir Richard, knowledge of the East, [224]–[225], [226]
• Buyukdere, massacre of Armenians at, [19]–[20]
• Byron, Lord, on Constantinople, quoted, [5]
• “Byzantinism,” [183]
• Capitulations, the, [201], [231]
• Caravans, starting point for, [67];
  • on the Zigana Pass, [84]–[85]
• Carlyle and Islamism, [219]–[220]
• Cassim Pasha, suburb of, [8]
• Castries, Count de, “L’Islam,” [218]
• Catholics, Latin, [228]
• Censorship of the Press in Constantinople, evading the, [23]–[24], [171]
• Cercle d’Orient, Constantinople, [19], [195]
• Chadidja, [259]
• Chakir Pasha, Marshal, story of the watch, [70]–[6], [93]–[94];
  • accounts of the Armenian rising, [77]–[79];
  • and Reouf Pasha, [98]
• Chaldeans, Uniate, [228]
• Chalet Kiosk, [288]
• Charles, Archduke, [182]
• Chary, Hermann, Roumanian interpreter, [40]–[41], [48], [65], [117]
• Chefakat, Order of the, [165], [172]
• Christian Churches in Turkey, [28], [222]–[223]
• Christianity in Turkey, [119]–[123], [216]–[223], [226]–[230]
• Circassians, characteristics of the, [106]–[107];
  • exodus of, [278]
• Club de Constantinople, [195]
• Colombo, Hôtel, Salonica, [37]
• Commerce, British Chamber of, at Constantinople, [190]
• Commercial code of 1850, [229]
• Commerell, Admiral, [226]
• Constantine the Great, [223], [254]
• Constantinople, impressions, [5]–[9];
  • cavalry barracks, [7], [8];
  • Fakir Hanè, [8];
  • Greek High School, [8];
  • Marine Hospital, [8];
  • Marine Ministry, [8];
  • Ters Hanè, [8];
  • gossip in, [12]–[13];
  • British Embassy, [17], [55]–[56];
  • German Post Office, [21]–[22];
  • Arsenal, [24];
  • Aja Sophia, [28], [87];
  • Gumysch Soujou Hospital, [30];
  • outbreak of the war, [50]–[51];
  • a return to, [127]–[128];
  • water
  • supply of, [165];
  • diplomacy in, [186]–[195];
  • cuisine of, [195]–[196];
  • “high life” in, [196]–[198];
  • the Passage Oriental, [206]–[207];
  • Europeans in, [214]–[215], [240];
  • fall of, [222];
  • fire brigade of, [243]–[244];
  • Bazaar, [247]
• Constantinople, Club de, [12], [195]
• Copts, [228]
• Corpus Christi, Feast of, in Constantinople, [213]
• Corruption and bribery in Turkey, [163]–[164]
• “Cospoli,” provincial name for Constantinople, [103]
• Costaki Pasha, [1]
• Courrier de L’Est, [149]
• Crete, Bismarck’s interest in the island, [1]–[2];
  • the naval demonstration 1898, [276]
• Crimean War, [170], [230], [261]
• Criminal code of 1840, [229]
• Crispi, [271]
• Crusades, nature of the, [215]–[216], [219], [221]–[222]
• Cuinet cited, [120] (note)
• Currie, Lady, [55]–[56]
• Currie, Sir Philip, [263];
  • the protest to the Porte, [54]–[56];
  • urges recall of Chakir Pasha, [71];
  • telegram to Erzeroum, autumn 1895, [77]
• Dagmar, Empress, [71]
• Daily Mail and the Fehim Pasha incident, [266]–[267]
• Damascene swords, [91]
• Damascus, [118]
• Dandolo, Enrico, [250]
• Danish Bey, [71]
• Daphne, Austrian-Lloyd steamer, [64]
• Dead, Turkish reverence for the, [8]
• Deliler, village of, [55]
• Demeter Mavrocordato Effendi, [71], [72]
• Détaille, M. Edouard, “Nos Vainqueurs,” [215]
• Deutsche Bank, Berlin, [142]
• Deutsche Revue, [287]
• Diarbekir, [63], [88], [91];
  • history, [110]–[111]
• “Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople,” [253]
• Djahid, Husein, paper by, [287]
• Dogs of Constantinople, [17], [254]
• Dolma-Baghtchè, palace of, [139], [141]
• Doré, Gustave, illustrations of the Bible, [88]
• Dragoman Service, the, [189]
• Draper, and Islamism, [219]–[220]
• Druses, [228]
• Dufferin, Lord, [193]
• Duilio, the Italian ship, [37]
• Edhem Pasha, generalissimo of the Turkish forces, [43]–[44], [46], [48]
• Edward VII, [283]
• Egypt, irrigation, [280]
• Egyptians at Nisib, [112]
• Elassona, Turkish headquarters at, [40]–[48]
• Emerson, “English Traits,” [249]
• Emin Bey, story of, [166]–[167]
• England, Turkish policy, [22], [170], [272]–[274], [278]–[279]
• English governesses in Constantinople, [213]
• English settlement in Salonica, [39]–[40]
• Englishman, Turkish estimation of the, [261]–[262]
• Erzeroum, vilayet, [63] and note;
  • Armenian rising, October 1895, [70]–[76];
  • the journey to, [81];
  • reception at, [88]–[90];
  • history of the town, [90];
  • Russian influence, [91]–[92];
  • the American element in, [99]–[100];
  • Russian occupation 1878, [278]
• Erzingian, [73]
• Etchmiadzin (Russia), [78]
• Ethnike Hetairia, the, [36] and note, [37]
• Eucharistic Congress in London, [213]
• Eugénie, Empress, [139]
• Eunuchs, [253]–[254]
• Euphrates, crossing the, [112]
• Europeans in Constantinople, [214]–[215], [240]
• Famine, [165]
• Fauna between Erzeroum and Bitlis, [102]–[103]
• “Fedaïs,” the, [75]–[76]
• Fehim Pasha, Chief of Secret Police, [177]–[178];
  • scandal of, [263]–[267]
• Ferdinand, Austrian ex-Emperor, sayings of, [159]–[160]
• Ferid Pasha, [270]
• Ferrero, Guglielmo, sayings of, quoted, [234]–[235]
• Fire brigade in Constantinople, [243]–[244]
• Franco-German War 1870, [251]
• Franco-Italian War 1859, [182]
• Franz-Josef, present to the Bazar de Secours, [53]
• French Embassy in Constantinople, [50], [251]
• French language in Turkey, [275]–[276]
• Friedrichsruh, [2]
• Fuad, Grand Vizier, [177]
• Galata Bridge, the, [15]–[18], [21]–[22], [141], [244]
• Gautier, Théophile, on the Turk, [8]
• Gellini, Gentil, [250]
• “German Memories,” Prof. Vambéry’s remarks on, [289], [290]
• Germany and England, [293], [294]
• Germany and Turkey—Behaviour of Germans during the massacre, [21]–[22];
  • German officers in Turkey, [48]–[49], [271]–[272], [285];
  • German surgeons for the wounded, [51]–[52];
  • Turkish policy of Germany, [169]–[170], [279], [290], [291], [293], [294];
  • German influence in Turkey, [202], [214], [241], [264], [267]–[272], [274]–[277], [279], [295]–[296];
  • German language in Turkey, [275]–[276]
• Ghazi Osman Pasha, [50]–[51], [155], [205];
  • his office at Yildiz, [139], [177]–[178], [181]
• Giaours, [228], [249]
• Gladstone, the Rt. Hon. W. E., policy of, [169]–[170]
• Goethe quoted, [125], [268]
• Golden Horn, [6], [7], [8], [9] (note), [55]
• “Goldener Lamm,” Vienna, [4]
• Goltz, General von der, [285]
• Gordon, General, [40], [226]
• Görgey, [251]
• Gortschakoff, [188], [296]
• Græco-Turkish War, [35]–[56], [219], [271], [276]
• Grant, General, and Reouf Pasha, [94]–[95]
• Gratz, [182]
• Graves, Mr., British Consul at Erzeroum, opinion of, quoted, [93]–[94]
• Greece, incursions into Macedonia, [36];
  • religious intolerance in, [213]–[214];
  • Turks in, [251]
• Greek Committees, [2]
• Greek Orthodox Church, [20]–[21], [213]–[214]
• Greek Press, Bismarck and the, [2]
• Greeks in Constantinople, behaviour, [50]–[51];
  • characteristics, [212];
  • burial customs, [213]–[214], [241];
  • Uniate, [228]
• Grey, Sir Edward, Eastern policy of, [291]
• Gritti, Andrea, [250]
• Gritti, Ludovico, [250]
• Grumbkow Pasha, [48]
• Gumysch Hanè, [83]–[8]
• Gumysch Soujou Hospital, Constantinople, [30]
• Gwynne, H. A., [55]
• Hafis Pasha, [112]
• Haidar Pasha, university at, [162]
• Haldane, Lord, [286]
• Halid Bey, [64]
• Hamid Pasha, [74]
• Hamidiè cavalry regiments, [73], [109], [145]–[155]
• Hamidiè Mosque, [156], [164], [178]–[179]
• “Hans,” [83], [86]
• Harem, the, [215], [256]–[257]
• Harper’s Magazine, [132]
• Hassan Bey, [258]
• Hassib Effendi, [71]
• Hatti-Humayoun of 1856, [230]
• Hatti-Sherif of Gulhanè, [229]–[230]
• Hatzfeldt, Count, [206]
• Hedjas Railway, [150], [277]
• Heine, “Buch der Lieder,” quoted, [151]
• Hepworth, Dr. George H., the expedition into Armenia, 58 et seq.;
  • “Through Armenia on Horseback,” [62];
  • the journey to Erzeroum, [81], [89]–[90];
  • the road to Bitlis, [101]–[102], [104], [105], [108];
  • incidents of the journey, [113], [114], [115], [116];
  • and Abdul Hamid, [128]–[129];
  • letters to Mr. Whitman, [132]–[133]
• Hepworth, Mrs., [129]
• Herbert, Sir Michael, [263]
• Hobart Pasha, [226], [248]
• Holy Sepulchre, Turkish protection, [213], [215]–[216], [228]
• Horse, the Anatolian, [114]–[115]
• Hospital for the wounded at Yildiz, [51]–[52]
• Hugo, Victor, [26]
• Huguenin, M., [268]–[269]
• Huguenots, the, [217]
• Humboldt, Alexander von, observations of, on Constantinople, [5]–[6]
• Hungarian revolutionists, sheltered by the Sultan, [251]
• Hunger-typhus, [165]
• Hunuesch, [120]
• Hussein Avni Pasha, [258]
• Hyacinthe, Father, and Islamism, [219]–[220]
• Ibrahim Pasha, [112], [145], [152]–[154]
• Impérial, Hôtel, Salonica, [40]
• Imtiaz medal, the, [33], [51]–[52], [179]
• “Iradè,” the term, [144]–[145]
• Izzet Fuad Pasha, Turkish ambassador at Madrid, [177]
• Izzet Pasha, and Mr. Whitman, [30]–[35], [237];
  • apartments at Yildiz, [140]–[145], [265];
  • work of, [154];
  • Arab origin [169] (note)
• Jacobites, [228]
• Janissaries, the, [155], [180]
• Japan, German officers in, [272]
• Jerusalem, [94]–[95], [118], [213], [216], [256]
• Jews in Turkey, [21], [38]–[39], [92], [217], [221], [228], [249]–[250]
• Johnson, President Andrew, [26]
• Journal de Salonique, extract from, [41]–[42]
• Justinian, Emperor, [183], [254]
• Kaarie, or Kariè, Mosque, [28], [222]–[223]
• Kara Hissar Charki, mines of, [76]
• Kara Sua, source, [90]
• Karaferia, [42]
• Katerina, [42], [46]
• Kegel Club, Salonica, [37]
• Kerasoun, [66]
• Khalifate, the, claim of the Sultan, [148]
• Khinis, [77]
• Khrimyan, Monsignor, [78]
• Kighi, [96]
• Knackfuss, Professor, [53]
• Kop Dagh Pass, [86]–[88]
• Koran, precepts of the, [213], [217]–[223], [234]–[235], [254]
• Kossona, village of, [43]
• Kossuth, [251]
• Kotal Dagh, the, [66]–[67]
• Kurdistan, [63], [79];
  • relations with Armenians, [74]–[75];
  • rising of the autumn 1895, [77];
  • mountain fastnesses of, [107];
  • characteristics, [129]–[130]
• Kurds, arming of the, [73];
  • Reouf Pasha and, [96]–[97];
  • kindliness of, [107]–[109];
  • marksmanship, [113];
  • predatory propensities, [124];
  • deputation to the Sultan, [145]
• Lamartine, [291]
• Larissa, [45], [55]
• Layard, Sir Henry, [193]
• Lazis, the, of Trebizond, [67]
• Lebanon, [223]
• Lessing, “Nathan the Wise,” [216]–[217]
• Levant Herald, and the censorship, [171]
• Levantine, the, [199]–[209]
• London, contrasts with the East, [130]–[132]
• Lorenz, Melchoir, [250]
• Loti, Pierre, [291]
• Louis XIV, [217]
• Lufti Aga, story of, [168]–[169]
• Lule-Burgas, [285]
• Macedonia, missionaries of, [121]
• Mahmoud, Sultan, [229]–[230], [248]
• Mahmud Nedim Pasha, [169]
• Mamuret ül Aziz, [63]
• Marienbad, [57]
• Maronites, [228]
• Mavrocordato Effendi, [79]–[80]
• Mavrocordato, Prince, [231]
• Mavrogeni, Dr., [206]
• Maximow, M., dragoman, [19]
• Maximow M., Consul-General, [90], [93], [147]
• Mazzini, [271]
• McColl, Canon, [22]
• Mecca, [65], [140]–[141]
• Medjediè, order of, [98], [154]
• Mehmet, Circassian officer, [40], [43], [48]
• Mehmet Izzet Bey, saying of, quoted, [15], [255]–[256]
• Mehmet Tscherkess, [45]
• Mekteb Milkiè, [164]
• Meluna Pass, the, [45]
• Mersey, Lord, [48]
• Mersina, [127]
• Mersina-Adana Railway, [269]
• Mesopotamia, [63], [295], [296]
• Methodists, [228]
• Metoualis, [228]
• Midhat Pasha, [26], [166]
• Migirditch, Armenian cook, [101]–[102]
• Mijatovich, M. Chedo, [289]
• Milan, ex-king, [59]
• Miles, Gen. Nelson, [53]
• Mining law, alterations, [273]
• Missionaries in Turkey, [38], [39], [120]–[121]
• Modiki, Kurds of, [124]
• Mohamed Cherif Reouf Pasha, [93]–[98], [104]
• Mohammed, life of, stories of, [125], [258]–[260]
• Mohammed V, [208]
• Mohammed Faté, Sultan, [250]
• Mohammedanism and Christianity, [82]–[83], [216]–[223], [228]–[230]
• Mollahs, [143]–[145]
• Moltke, Count von, and Turkey, [35], [112], [248]
• Monasteries, Christian, [82]–[83], [127], [222], [254]
• Montenegrins, struggle of 1876, [207];
  • characteristics, [212]
• Montgomery, George R., [55]
• Mordtmann, Dr., [164]–[165]
• Moscow, fires of, [243]
• Möser, Justus, [237]
• Mosques, [222]–[223]
• Mosul, [110]
• Moutschka, River, [66]
• Muezzin, the, [145]
• Munir Pasha, Grand Master of Ceremonies, [60], [152], [180];
  • letter to Mr. Whitman, [129];
  • personality, [157]–[158];
  • estimate of his master, [175]–[176]
• Murad Su, [101]
• Mustapha Pasha, railway station at, [262]
• Namouma, yacht, [57]
• Naples, [5]
• Napoleon, Code of, [229]
• Napoleon, saying of, [62], [226]
• Napoleon III, Abdul Hamid compared with, [161]–[162]
• National, Hôtel, Vienna, [4]
• Naturalization of Turkish subjects, [231]
• Neghib Bey, saying of, [246]
• Nelidow, M. de, [19], [278]
• Nestorians, Chaldean, [228]
• Nestorius, [223]
• New York Herald, the, [2], [10]–[11], [14], [23]–[25], [31], [34], [36], [41], [42], [43], [46], [57], [58], [60], [61], [129], [133] (note), [170]
• Nicæa, Council of, [223]
• Nicholas, Emperor, promise to Abdul Hamid, [162], [277] and note
• Nineteenth Century and After, [286], [289] (note 4)
• Nisib, village of, [112]
• O’Conor, Sir Nicholas, [193];
  • letter of, quoted, [272]–[273]
• Offenbach, Jacques, [157]
• Ohannes Effendi, [19]
• Olympus, Mount, [37], [43]
• Orient (L’), [149]
• Ortogrul cavalry, [155]
• Osman Pasha, [95], [139]
• Osmanian, [18]–[19]
• Osmaniè order, [154]
• Ottoman Bank, the attack on the, [16]–[18], [23]–[24]
• Palestine, law in, [229]
• Pall Mall Gazette, [285]
• Pancaldi, [71]
• Paris Commune 1871, [256]
• Pascal, “Les Pensées” quoted, [161]
• Paskiewitsch, General, [86]
• Passage Oriental, Constantinople, [206]–[207]
• Passen, [97]
• Paul, Emperor, [32]
• Peel, W., [55]
• Pera, [15], [199], [200];
  • the outbreak at, [17];
  • discovery of bombs, [25];
  • after the massacre, [29]–[30];
  • water supply, [165];
  • Grande Rue de Pera, [206]–[208], [257];
  • population of, [212];
  • the French Embassy, [251]
• Pera Palace Hotel, [6], [12], [177], [266]
• Phanariotes, [235], [270]
• Pharsalia, [45]
• Philippopolis, [23]–[24]
• Picot, Lieut.-Colonel H. P., [280];
  • letter to Mr. Whitman, [294]–[297]
• “Pilaf,” [255]
• Platana, [67]
• Plevna, siege of, [205]
• Plumstead, naming of a street in, [283]–[284] and note
• Police, Turkish, [201]–[202]
• Policevera, steamer, [50]
• Polygamy, [215]
• Pontine range, the, [85]
• Potsdam Guards, the, [271]
• Powers, the, proposals of 1895, [77];
  • the Capitulations, [201], [231]
• Presbyterians, [228]
• Press, the, in Turkey, [148]–[149], [160], [188], [230]–[232], [251];
  • evading the censorship, [23]–[24], [171]
• Prinkipo Islands, [20]
• Prior, Mr. Melton, [29]
• Procopius of Cæsarea, [183]
• Protestants in Turkey, [120]–[121], [228]
• Pruth, the, [164]
• Ramadan Festival, [149]–[150]
• Razi Khan, [74]
• “Realm of the Habsburgs,” by Mr. Sidney Whitman, [284], [292]
• Red Cross, the, [205]
• Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de, [56], [193], [261]
• Reformation, the English, [213]
• Religious toleration in Turkey, [216]–[222], [227]–[228];
  • firman of 1854, [229]–[230]
• Revolvers at the Pera Palace Hotel, [17]
• Rhodes, Island of, [25], [127]
• Riedler, Professor, [248]
• Rifat Bey, [169]
• Roads, Persian, [80]–[81], [85], [101], [125], [128]
• Robert College on the Bosphorus, [226]–[227]
• Roberts, Lord, [286]
• Roman Catholic Armenians, [21]
• Rome, rites in communion with, [228]
• Roqueferrier, M., [93]
• Rothschild, London house of, [20]
• Roumania, King of, [272]
• Ruskin, saying of, quoted, [131]
• Rushti Bey, Colonel, [65], [107]
• Russia—Turkish policy of, [19], [127], [147], [232], [276]–[279], [296]–[297];
  • revolutionary propaganda fomented by, [20]–[21], [24], [61], [75]–[76], [123];
  • protest against German officers in Turkey, [49];
  • influence in Erzeroum, [90]–[92], [97];
  • the Czar’s promise to Abdul Hamid, [162], [277] and note;
  • trade with Turkey, [165];
  • religious toleration in, [229]
• Russian Cossack regiments, [73]
• Russo-Japanese War, [296]
• Russo-Turkish War, [44], [85]–[86], [164]
• Saadi, poet, [290]
• Sadjur, River, [114]
• Sadowa, battle of, [182]
• Saint Andrews, Cathedral of, [213]
• Saint Sophia, Church of, [250]
• Saladin, [114], [216]–[217], [233]
• Salisbury, Marquis of, [1], [170], [220] (note)
• Salonica, Greek population, [37], [49]–[50];
  • Jewish element, [38]–[39];
  • English element, [39]–[40];
  • outbreak of the war, [49];
  • Turks in, [251]
• Salzburg, [5]
• Samsoun, [66]
• Saumur, [45]
• Schah-Zadè, Sultan, [8]
• Schiites, [233]
• Schismanian, Givon, [77]
• Schools, Armenian, [63], [66], [75], [99], [127];
  • Turkish, [164]–[165], [275]
• Schopenhauer, [237]
• Schreyer, [114]
• Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, [49]
• Scutari, [257];
  • the English cemetery, [165], [201]–[202]
• Sedan-chairs, [197]
• Selamlik, ceremony of the, [154]–[158], [164], [178]–[181], [253]
• Selim, Sultan, [8], [110], [111], [217], [233]
• Shamyl, submission of, [278]
• Shaw, Captain, [243]
• Shaw, G. B., [48]
• Shefket Pasha, Marshal, [51]
• Sheikh-ul-Islam, [52], [217], [233], [237]–[238]
• Sheikhs, [143]–[145]
• Shipka Pass, [71]
• Silver mines, [83]–[84]
• Sirry Bey, [64], [103]–[106], [113], [117], [172], [266]–[267]
• Sitaouk, [97]
• Sivas, [76]
• Smyrna, [22], [127]
• Smyrna-Aidin Railway, [273]
• Sobranje, the, Mohammedan members, [242]
• Softas, [145]
• Solferino, [182]
• Sorovitch, [41], [42]
• Spain—Religious intolerance in, [38], [217], [250];
  • the Moors in, [220]–[221];
  • generosity of the people, [248]
• Special Correspondent, Mr. Gordon Bennett’s ideas of his duties, [11]–[12]
• Spencer, Herbert, [237]
• Spinoza, [237]
• “Stambolin,” [25], [150], [176]
• Stamboul, the outbreak in, [15]–[17], [22];
  • the Aja Sophia, [28], [87];
  • the Sublime Porte, [141];
  • fires in, [244];
  • the public fountain, [261]
• Steevens, G. W., [55]
• Sublime Porte, the, [14], [141]
• Suleyman, Sultan, [8], [165], [250]
• Sultan, the, and the Khalifate, [225]
• Sunday, the Mohammedan, [27]
• Suwarie Tschaoush, [64]
• Sycosis, [117]
• Syrian horsemen, [113]
• Syrians, Uniate, [228]
• Szechenyi Pasha, Count, [243]
• Tahsim Pasha, [139]
• Tanin, the, [287]
• Tanzimat, the, [229]–[230]
• Tariff, Turkish, [280]
• Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors, [253]
• Taurus, the, [82]–[85], [88]
• “Tcharik,” [42]
• Tcheragan, Palace of, [139]
• “Temena,” ceremony of, [142]–[143]
• Tempè, vale of, [45]
• Terdjumani Hakkikat, the, [26]
• Tewfik Bey, Colonel, [64]–[65]
• Tewfik Pasha, [270]
• Theodora, Empress, [183]
• Theodosiopolis, [90]
• Theodosius the Younger, [90]
• Therapia, [263]
• Thessaly, alleged Turkish atrocities, [54]–[55]
• Tiflis, Armenians of, [78]
• Tigris, the, [101], [110]
• Times, the, correspondents in Turkey, [14], [18], [47]–[48], [171]
• Timur the Tartar, [114]
• Tophanè, Constantinople, [141]
• Transylvania, Saxon colony, [276]
• Trebizond, [63], [64], [81];
  • description, [66]–[70];
  • the troubles at, [74]–[76];
  • Christian monasteries of, [82]–[83], [222]
• Tripoli, [214]
• Tschishly, [18]
• Tschoueh, Daniel, [76]
• Turanian type in Turkey, [233]
• Turk, the, traits, [210]–[260];
  • love of family, [103]–[104];
  • fidelity, [104]–[105];
  • generosity and courtesy, [105]–[106], [240]–[242];
  • respect for personal character, [206], [208]–[209], [246];
  • absence of class distinctions, [235]–[237];
  • gratitude, [246]–[248];
  • hospitality, [248]–[249];
  • love of animals, [254]
• Turkey—War on Greece, [36];
  • religious tolerance in, [184], [212], [216]–[222], [227]–[230], [249]–[250];
  • shelter given to Hungarian revolutionaries, [251];
  • foreigners in, [252]–[253];
  • German officers in Turkish army, [271]–[272]
• Turks, Orthodox, [228]
• Tussaud’s, Madame, [215] and note
• Twain, Mark, [118]
• Ulemas, [143], [144], [145]
• United States, the Press in, [231]
• University at Haidar Pasha, [165]
• “Vali,” the term, [63] (note)
• Valis, unpopularity of, [124]
• Valladolid, [250]
• Vambéry, Dr. Rustem, letter to Mr. Whitman, [283]–[284]
• Vambéry, Professor Arminius, experiences, [84];
  • life and adventures, quoted, [89];
  • stories of Abdul Hamid, [168]–[169], [171]–[172], [186];
  • letters to Mr. Whitman, [211], [289]–[293];
  • on the European situation, [279];
  • a London street named after, [283], [284]
• Van, [63], [64], [65], [74], [78], [79];
  • the rising in, [78]–[79]
• Van, Lake of, [72], [109]–[110]
• Vassos, Colonel, recall from Crete, [36]
• Venice, [57]
• Vereschagin, [205]
• Victoria, Queen, [283]
• Vienna, impressions, [3]–[5], [59];
  • Central Post Office, [4], [5];
  • Leopoldstadt, [4]
• Vienna Congress 1815, [4]
• “Vilayet,” the term, [63] (note)
• Vincent, Sir Edgar, in Constantinople, [226]
• Voltaire, [237]
• Wagner, Reisen von Moritz, quoted, [86]
• Wallisch, Dr., [65]
• Waugh, Mr. Alexander, English Consul, [111]
• Weldon, Mr. Hamilton, [55]
• Westminster, Duke of, attitude towards Armenian atrocities, [22]
• White, Sir William, [193], [295]
• Whitman, Mrs., and the Turkish ladies, [258]
• Whittaker, Mr., [14], [171]
• Whittall, [15]–[16], [22]–[23], [242]
• William II and Abdul Hamid, [53], [162] (note), [261], [294]–[295]
• William III of England, [252]
• Woman, the Turkish, status, [165]–[166], [215], [256]–[258]
• Woods, Admiral Sir Henry, Pasha, [242]–[243]
• Xerias, River, [43]
• Yildiz, the Palace at, [14], [18], [19], [31]–[35], [51]–[52], [72]–[73], [128]–[129], [137]–[158], [176]–[177]
• Young Turk movement, [26], [124] (note), [287]
• Zeki Pasha, Marshal, [73]
• Zigana Pass, [84]–[85]
• Zola, La Débâcle, [124]

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