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28 BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS.
a death-warrant signed by the misguided Sultan. Mustapha had left behind
him a son, a fair boy who had scarcely numbered ten summers—brave, and
beautiful, and, until now, beloved. This was the new victim; but the impla-
cable Sultana, fierce as she was, knew all the intensity and watchfulness of a
mother's love, and she felt that the vigilance of the new-made widow must be
eluded. The boy was, therefore, on some fair pretence dispatched to a kiosque
near Broussa, attended by a proper guard, and accompanied by his mother in
a covered litter. In the plain beyond Moudania, the litter broke down; and
the eunuch who was entrusted with the death-warrant, proposed to the little
prince that they should together gallop forward to the city, and send back
assistance. The gallant boy complied; and as he sprang from his horse at the
door of the kiosque, the executioner stopped him on the threshold, and extend-
ing towards him the bowstring, intimated to him that such was the will of the
Sultan.
" God is great !" said the brave boy, " and the Sultan is his shadow upon
earth—I am ready." And when she reached Broussa, the widow of Mustapha
found that she was childless!
YENI DJAMI.
" Lightly tread, 'tis hallowed ground."
The beautiful mosque of Yeni Djami, known also as that of Sultana Valide,
was built by the mother of Mahomet IV., and is esteemed one of the most
magnificent in the capital. The minarets are peculiarly elegant, each being
encircled by no less than three galleries, of the most minute and thickly-perforated
sculpture, in the Saracenic taste. The portal is of ponderous size, and the brazen
gates are thickly studded with mother-of-pearl; three lofty arches enclose an
open peristyle, terraced in, and sufficiently spacious to contain more than a
hundred persons. The double range of exterior galleries, running along the
facade of the temple, 'are of fine and delicate workmanship, and the arches by
which they are formed, are chastely and beautifully designed. The principal dome
springs majestically from the centre of the spacious roof, and rests upon four lesser
ones, which appear to lift it to the clouds; while the tomb of the illustrious
founder nestles beneath the more lofty edifice, comparatively minute in size, but
equally elegant in construction.
a death-warrant signed by the misguided Sultan. Mustapha had left behind
him a son, a fair boy who had scarcely numbered ten summers—brave, and
beautiful, and, until now, beloved. This was the new victim; but the impla-
cable Sultana, fierce as she was, knew all the intensity and watchfulness of a
mother's love, and she felt that the vigilance of the new-made widow must be
eluded. The boy was, therefore, on some fair pretence dispatched to a kiosque
near Broussa, attended by a proper guard, and accompanied by his mother in
a covered litter. In the plain beyond Moudania, the litter broke down; and
the eunuch who was entrusted with the death-warrant, proposed to the little
prince that they should together gallop forward to the city, and send back
assistance. The gallant boy complied; and as he sprang from his horse at the
door of the kiosque, the executioner stopped him on the threshold, and extend-
ing towards him the bowstring, intimated to him that such was the will of the
Sultan.
" God is great !" said the brave boy, " and the Sultan is his shadow upon
earth—I am ready." And when she reached Broussa, the widow of Mustapha
found that she was childless!
YENI DJAMI.
" Lightly tread, 'tis hallowed ground."
The beautiful mosque of Yeni Djami, known also as that of Sultana Valide,
was built by the mother of Mahomet IV., and is esteemed one of the most
magnificent in the capital. The minarets are peculiarly elegant, each being
encircled by no less than three galleries, of the most minute and thickly-perforated
sculpture, in the Saracenic taste. The portal is of ponderous size, and the brazen
gates are thickly studded with mother-of-pearl; three lofty arches enclose an
open peristyle, terraced in, and sufficiently spacious to contain more than a
hundred persons. The double range of exterior galleries, running along the
facade of the temple, 'are of fine and delicate workmanship, and the arches by
which they are formed, are chastely and beautifully designed. The principal dome
springs majestically from the centre of the spacious roof, and rests upon four lesser
ones, which appear to lift it to the clouds; while the tomb of the illustrious
founder nestles beneath the more lofty edifice, comparatively minute in size, but
equally elegant in construction.