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Constantinople hammals as described in The National Geographic, December 1914
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Chickens en route to market: Constantinople
"Often as many as 150,000 persons, of every race and of every region, clad in every kind of human garment, and representing every graduation of human rank, traverse the Galata bridge in a single day. There are no rules of the road. Carriage, beast, and pedestrian mix up in a hopeless jumble, the latter plunging into a tumultuous living mass, dodging hither and thither, stopping now and rushing on again, and finally, as though by a miracle, emerging unharmed at the other end."
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A Porter, or Hamal: Constantinople
"Practically all the work of the city is done by outsiders, and each kind of work, as the reader may have already gathered, is done chiefly by men from a certain "country". So it is that the men who sell ice-cream in the streets are Albaniana, Christian and Mohammedan, from the region of Uskub; that the layers of pavement are Mohammedan Albanians of the south; that railroad navies- or those of the Roumelian Railroad- are Christian Albanians from the dame region; that bath men are Turks from Sivas; that street porters are Kurds or Asia Minor Turks, according to the kind of load they carry; that most boatmen are from the Black Sea coast and so on indefinitely. "
Constantinople hammals as described in The National Geographic, December 1914
"Often as many as 150,000 persons, of every race and of every region, clad in every kind of human garment, and representing every graduation of human rank, traverse the Galata bridge in a single day. There are no rules of the road. Carriage, beast, and pedestrian mix up in a hopeless jumble, the latter plunging into a tumultuous living mass, dodging hither and thither, stopping now and rushing on again, and finally, as though by a miracle, emerging unharmed at the other end."
A Porter, or Hamal: Constantinople
"Practically all the work of the city is done by outsiders, and each kind of work, as the reader may have already gathered, is done chiefly by men from a certain "country". So it is that the men who sell ice-cream in the streets are Albaniana, Christian and Mohammedan, from the region of Uskub; that the layers of pavement are Mohammedan Albanians of the south; that railroad navies- or those of the Roumelian Railroad- are Christian Albanians from the dame region; that bath men are Turks from Sivas; that street porters are Kurds or Asia Minor Turks, according to the kind of load they carry; that most boatmen are from the Black Sea coast and so on indefinitely. "