[Gutenberg 59130] • Turkish Memories

Excerpt from Turkish Memories

The following pages are the outcome of several prolonged visits to Constantinople, Macedonia, and Asiatic Turkey, covering a period of twelve years, from 1896 to 1908. Several of these were made under exceptional circumstances and embody experiences such as do not often fall to the lot of a traveller, some of which, I venture to think, are of lasting public interest.

Anyone who has had personal relations with an autocrat - in this case the spiritual head of a faith in which in the course of centuries thousands of millions of human beings have lived and died - ought to have much to tell worth recounting. There were also the surroundings of the Monarch to be observed. Many a trait of deep human interest presented itself to him who was a privileged visitor for instance, the ups and downs of fortune as they affected the all-powerful favourite whose good offices - as in the time of a Madame de Pompadour - powerful Sovereigns did not think it beneath their dignity to strive and compete for. Such a man I have seen in disgrace.

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