Colombo, Hôtel, Salonica, 37 Commerce, British Chamber of, at Constantinople, 190 Commercial code of 1850, 229 Commerell, Admiral, 226 Constantine the Great, 223, 254 Constantinople, impressions, 5–9; cavalry barracks, 7, 8; Fakir Hanè, 8; Greek High School, 8; Marine Hospital, 8; Marine Ministry, 8; Ters Hanè, 8; gossip in, 12–13; British Embassy, 17, 55–56; German Post Office, 21–22; Arsenal, 24; Aja Sophia, 28, 87; Gumysch Soujou Hospital, 30; outbreak of the war, 50–51; a return to, 127–128; water supply of, 165; diplomacy in, 186–195; cuisine of, 195–196; “high life” in, 196–198; the Passage Oriental, 206–207; Europeans in, 214–215, 240; fall of, 222; fire brigade of, 243–244; Bazaar, 247 Constantinople, Club de, 12, 195 Copts, 228 Corpus Christi, Feast of, in Constantinople, 213 Corruption and bribery in Turkey, 163–164 “Cospoli,” provincial name for Constantinople, 103 Costaki Pasha, 1 _Courrier de L’Est_, 149 Crete, Bismarck’s interest in the island, 1–2; the naval demonstration 1898, 276 Crimean War, 170, 230, 261 Criminal code of 1840, 229 Crispi, 271 Crusades, nature of the, 215–216, 219, 221–222 Cuinet _cited_, 120 (_note_) Currie, Lady, 55–56 Currie, Sir Philip, 263; the protest to the Porte, 54–56; urges recall of Chakir Pasha, 71; telegram to Erzeroum, autumn 1895, 77 Dagmar, Empress, 71 _Daily Mail_ and the Fehim Pasha incident, 266–267 Damascene swords, 91 Damascus, 118 Dandolo, Enrico, 250 Danish Bey, 71 _Daphne_, Austrian-Lloyd steamer, 64 Dead, Turkish reverence for the, 8 Deliler, village of, 55 Demeter Mavrocordato Effendi, 71, 72 Détaille, M. Edouard, “Nos Vainqueurs,” 215 Deutsche Bank, Berlin, 142 _Deutsche Revue_, 287 Diarbekir, 63, 88, 91; history, 110–111 “Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople,” 253 Djahid, Husein, paper by, 287 Dogs of Constantinople, 17, 254 Dolma-Baghtchè, palace of, 139, 141 Doré, Gustave, illustrations of the Bible, 88 Dragoman Service, the, 189 Draper, and Islamism, 219–220 Druses, 228 Dufferin, Lord, 193 _Duilio_, the Italian ship, 37 Edhem Pasha, generalissimo of the Turkish forces, 43–44, 46, 48 Edward VII, 283 Egypt, irrigation, 280 Egyptians at Nisib, 112 Elassona, Turkish headquarters at, 40–48 Emerson, “English Traits,” 249 Emin Bey, story of, 166–167 England, Turkish policy, 22, 170, 272–274, 278–279 English governesses in Constantinople, 213 English settlement in Salonica, 39–40 Englishman, Turkish estimation of the, 261–262 Erzeroum, vilayet, 63 _and note_; Armenian rising, October 1895, 70–76; the journey to, 81; reception at, 88–90; history of the town, 90; Russian influence, 91–92; the American element in, 99–100; Russian occupation 1878, 278 Erzingian, 73 Etchmiadzin (Russia), 78 Ethnike Hetairia, the, 36 _and note_, 37