Current, Devil’s, ii. 281; great, ii. 281. Customs of modern _vs._ old-time Turk, 170. D. Darius crosses the Bosphorus, ii. 281. David, quotation from, stamped; on bricks of St. Sophia, 261. Death, idea of rendered agreeable, ii. 231. Deli Tabia, fort of, ii. 293. Delphic Oracle names the Megarians “the Blind,” 25. Demonisi of the ancients, 17. Dervishes, description of the dancing, ii. 239; fekkeh, ii. 239. Devil’s Current, ii. 281. Dignity of Turkish men, ii. 252. Divân, hall of the, ii. 167; sessions of the, ii. 167. Divorce, facility of, ii. 37; law about remarriage, ii. 55. Djiemal-eddin, the scholar of Brusa, 168. Dmitri, San, 101. Dogs, cruel custom regarding, 180; hunting, of Bayezid, 179; legacies for support of, 174; laziness, 175; pronounced unclean, 174; transported from Constantinople, 174; why protected by the Turks, 174. Door, bronze, of Seraglio library, ii. 178. Dress, laws controlling, 223; of modern and old-fashioned Turk, 170; of women, ii. 24. Drinking, common among the Sultans, 215; efforts to suppress, 216. Drowning of members of Mustafa’s harem, 166. Dwelling, divisions of the Turkish, ii. 29. E. Echo, a famous, ii. 278. Egri Kapou, ii. 105, ii. 108. Egyptian Bazâr, 126. Elephant, Promontory of the, ii. 294. Emin Baba, patron saint of the Janissaries, ii. 234. Ensign of the Prophet, green, 194, ii. 183, ii. 218. Epepolin, the, ii. 112. Erizzo, governor of Negropont, daughter of, stabbed, ii. 200. Et-Meidan, scene of massacre of the Janissaries, 71. Eunuchs, 181; anecdote, 187; character, 186; dress, 182, 183; names, 185; never seen to laugh, 183; marriages, 186; miseries, 185; striking a French officer, 185; personal appearance, 182, 183; power waning, 182; traffic denounced by Koran and prohibited by law, 181; unwilling victims, 182. Europeans, how regarded by Turks, ii. 256. Existence in Constantinople, 204; freedom of, 206. Eyûb, 73, 117, ii. 229; mausoleum of Abu, ii. 230; mosque, ii. 230; sword of Osman, ii. 230. F. Fall of Constantinople described, ii. 115. Family, the, ii. 33. Fekkeh of dancing dervishes, ii. 239. Ferajah, ii. 11. Fez, bazâr, 149; disadvantages of the, 189; emblem of reform, ii. 236; of Mahmûd, ii. 236. Fighani, the poet, punished for a lampoon, 169. Fire, alarm of, from Galata Tower, ii. 80; from Serasker Tower, 242, ii. 80; from Topkhâneh, ii. 80; causes of, ii. 97; description of the, of 1870, ii. 73; former law about extinction of, ii. 79; how formerly announced to the Sultan, ii. 99; in the Seraglio, ii. 147; lookout for, on Galata Tower, 90; of 1756, ii. 92. Fire-brigade, ii. 96. Firemen, appearance, ii. 76; want of discipline, ii. 80.