ers slip their
hands through this, and having passed the string once round
the victim's neck, who was placed on his knees, they drew it
in opposite directions with all their force, and thus
produced death by strangulation. Since the gradual decline
of archery among the Turks, the bowstring has also been
falling into disuse; for the original cause of its being
adopted as an instrument of criminal punishment was the
readiness with which it could be procured, when every man
carried at his shoulder the weapon of which it formed a
part.

[17] _At_, a horse; and _Meidan_, a course.

[18] I cannot bid adieu to Lord Ponsonby and his amiable
family, without acknowledging how much the pleasure derived
from my voyage and visit to Constantinople was enhanced by
their unceasing kindness. Indeed, from the first moment I
became acquainted with his Lordship in Naples, he has
uniformly treated me with a degree of affability as
flattering to me as it was kind in him; besides honouring
me, up to the present moment, with a confidence which, in
general, is the result only of long tried and intimate
friendship. This is the more gratifying, because he has
always been surrounded by young men in every respect as
worthy of the same distinction as myself.

[19] I ought to have mentioned before, that Terapia is a
village some miles distant from Constantinople.

[20] Foreign Quarterly Review.

[21] Vignette in title-page.

[22] Duchess of Berri.

[23] St. John's Egypt.

LONDON:
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| Altintash Alt?nta? |
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| Balouk Bal?k |
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| Bounarbashi P?narba?? |
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| Buyukdere Buyukdere |
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