have, in fact, to travel ten miles off
Or ere the giant broke on them,
Full human profile, nose and chin distinct,
Mouth, muttering rhythms of silence up the sky,
And fed at evening with the blood of suns;
Grand torso,--hand, that flung perpetually
The largesse of a silver river down
To all the country pastures. 'Tis even thus
With times we live in,--evermore too great
To be apprehended near."

I supposed that even if the quotation were not recognised, everybody
would at least know that it was a quotation, and that it could not
conceivably have been an impromptu, but one man turned on another and
said: "By Jove! that's eloquence," and a gentleman at the rear of
the brake asked me out of the darkness why I didn't make a try for
Parliament, and assured me that I had a future there before me.

CHAPTER IX

The Russo-Turkish War--Constantinople--His Friend the
Enemy--Col. Archibald Campbell--The Courage of Non-
Combatants--Father Stick--Turkish Economy--Memories of
Constantinople.

At this time trouble was brewing in the east of Europe and less than
a year later war between Russia and Turkey was declared. In the early
spring of the year, the opposing forces were playing a game of long
bowls across the Danube, and very soon the forces commanded by "the
divine figure of the North," as Mr Gladstone most infelicitously styled
the Czar, had set foot upon the enemy's country. Just before this
happened, I received a visit from a gentleman who announced himself as
Colonel Keenan, the English representative of the _Chicago Times_,
who wanted to know if he could enlist my services for the campaign. I
assented eagerly, some sort of a hurried contract was drawn up between
us, and on the morrow I was away, bound for Schumla, proposing to take
Vienna _en route_, and thence to steam down the Danube to the theatre of
the war. I found that the Donau Damp Schiff Company had despatched
its last steamboat to the Black Sea twenty-four hours before I reached
Vienna and that the service was temporarily suspended. There was nothing
for it but to go on to Trieste and to take boat to Constantinople. I
found the city proclaimed in a state of siege and filled with all the
rascaldom and ruffiandom of Tripoli and Smyrna, who held the respectable
portion of the community in terror, so long as they were quartered
there.

There was an encampment of these gentry about five tho