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Peasants plowing at Askyfou plateau, Crete.

Olive harvest, Preveli, Crete.

Wind mill at Preveli Monastery, Crete.

Sheepfold, Amorgos.

Tuna fishing.

View of river Inachus.

The Petrovaradin Castle, Serbia.

Ruce port, Bulgaria.

The armory bazaar in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

Fishing of caviar and beluga at the oufall of the Volga into the Caspian Sea.

Ottoman butcher feeds street cats.

A ciğerci, Ottoman liver seller, feeds street cats.

View of the grand mosque and the bazaar of Gelibolu.

View of an ancient monument, possibly of Roman or Byzantine aqueduct, at Gelibolu.

View of Tophane square and the Fountain of Mahmut I.

Interior court in an inn.

Oak of the species Quercus infectoria or similar, from whose galls ink and vegetal dye are made. Image depicts two types of galls which grow on the tree as well as the two subspecies of wasp of the Cynipidae species which cause the galls to grow on this tree.

Oak of the species Quercus infectoria or similar, from whose galls ink and vegetal dye are made. Image depicts two types of galls which grow on the tree as well as the two subspecies of wasp of the Cynipidae species, which cause the galls to grow on this tree.

Nomad merchants of Crimea.

Bulgarian women in the bazaars of Monastir [Bitola].

Rose distillery at Isparta, Asia Minor.

Rose field at Burdur.

Landscape at Marmaris, Asia Minor. The author and his guide head towards the region where oriental sweetgum trees (Liquidambar orientalis, from which styrax balsaml is extracted, grow.

Caravanserai at Küçükçekmece, near Istanbul.

Ottoman market at Lüleburgaz in Turkey.

View of the mosque built on the site of the temple of Bacchus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).

A market in Jerusalem.

A bazaar in Corinth.

Processing of cotton in Limni, Euboea.

Town and harbour of Vathi, Ithaka island.