The Greek Manuscripts in the Old Seraglio at Constantinople

mosque, while the unfortunate Greek was taken to an Orthodox church, the Hagia Trias, at the end of the Rue de Péra.

Friday, my last whole day, was perfectly quiet. I went to the Selamlik The weekly procession of the Sultan to a mosque. and spent the greater part of the day in visiting various mosques on the Stamboul side, as well as the Metropolitan Church of the Phanar The district in Istanbul that serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Church., where I was fortunate enough to see the Patriarch Joachim. The only incidents were the disarming by the soldiers of one or two officers who appeared in the streets with revolvers, and the murder of the captain of one of the ships of the Turkish navy. This man had foolishly ordered the guns of his vessel to be trained on Yildiz Kiosk The royal palace. and commanded the marines to be ready to fire if he gave the word. When the mutiny was at its height, he left his boat; when they found him on Friday, they took him up to Yildiz, where the Sultan showed himself at a window. He sent an aide-de-camp, ordering the troops to hand him over to the proper ministers of justice, but before this order could arrive, the soldiers and sailors had killed and decapitated him. That afternoon we began to learn of the movement of troops favorable to the Committee from Salonica towards Constantinople. When I left the next morning at 10 o'clock by boat for Constanza, it was said that the advance guards had arrived at Chertaldja, but of all that has occurred since that date, I know no more than anybody else who followed the daily papers.

As to the causes and inner history of the revolt, I had many opportunities of consulting those who were on the spot and had the best qualifications to speak on the subject—not only Englishmen living in Constantinople, but Greeks and Armenians with an intimate knowledge of Turkish, who had passed freely among the mutineers and consulted with them as to their grievances and demands. It was their opinion that, in the first place, it was a most significant fact that the soldiers had plenty of money. Probably no troops in the world are so badly paid as the Turkish privates—they do not even often get the miserable pittance which is their due. Yet in their first manifesto, they said they were willing to wait.