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View of the city of Tula, south of Moscow.

Woman from Little Russia, a historical geographic region, today part of Ukraine.

View of Novocherkassk, capital of the Cossacks of Don river.

View of the bay of Balaklava near Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, the remains of the Genoese fortress.

View of the village of Marathon.

View of Thebes from Plataeae.

The summits of Mount Olympus.

Landscape at Lake Volvi.

The sea of Marmara seen from the window of author's inn at Tekirdag (Raidestos).

View of village near Săcărâmb or Nagyág mines, Romania.

View of Vienna from the southeast.

Procession accompanying the Sultan from Topkapi Palace to the mosque.

The Nilometer, square cistern with a marble column, used to measure the levels o the Nile in Egypt.

Soldiers and guilds parade during the festivities which customarily took place when an Ottoman prince was born. The author had occasion to watch such a parade during his stay in Aleppo.

The lunar eclipse which the author watched during his stay at Mosul. In the foreground a mullah explains to a Western European, possibly the author himself, the high importance of this phaenomenon to Muslims.

A raft crosses Tigres river at Mosul, Irak.

Game of Persian cricket at a public square in Isfahan, as watched by the author.

Preparation of lime for construction purposes, Persia.

Local costumes of Agra, India.

Carriage typically used by affluent merchants of India.

Celebration of the feast of Huli in Kabul. The feast, a remnant of pagan cults, lasted the two days of the full moon of February. On the second day, the inhabitants of Kabul would gather at the central square and destroy a gigantic effigy made especially for this festivity. The feast closed as a child, symbol of the new-born god, shot his arrows at the giant's heart.