Excerpt from Turkey and the Turks: Being the Present State of the Ottoman Empire For the historical parts of this volume I have been indebted to many sources; for the descrip tive, entirely to my own observation; and for the political, to Opinions formed during a resi dence in the country, as well as to a systematic examination of the various conflicting interests, during a very long voyage, when I had no means of seeing a newspaper of any kind, or of imbibing views from the conversation of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.