Note 26 — CHAP. IX.
J. R. Johnston translation
This I have remarked (when close to them on the long harbour bridge at Constantinople) in the women of the former Sultan Mahmoud and other Turks of rank, when these were there taking the air in the oxen-drawn carriages, enjoying the favour, procured them by the Sultan, of looking about them and seeing something of life; but this species of emancipation does not seem to have borne the best fruit, for I hardly had got to Egypt ere the Sultan issued some pretty severe orders as to these ladies’ mode of life.