Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate
LETTER XL.
Beauties of the Bosphorus—Summer-Palace of the Sultan—Adventure with an old Turkish Woman—The Feast of Bairam—The Sultan his own Butcher—His Evil Propensities—Visit to the Mosques—A Formidable Dervish—Santa Sophia—Mosque of Sultan Achmet—Traces of Christianity 240