Show THE TURKISH KAIK it more closely resembles the gondola than any other craft craf t crawford the author to whose skillful pen constantinople is indebted for one of the most char charming volumes volum esever ever issued in its ita praise has a word to tio eay about the turkish boat boatmen melL and their rell vehicle iele the kaik constantinople owes much writes he to the matchless beauty of the three waters which run too together gether beneath its walls and much of their reputation again has become worldwide world wide by the kaik it is disputed and disputable whether the turks copied coped th venetian gondola or whether the venetians imitated the turkish turk asli kaik but the resemblance between them is so strong stron as aa to make it certain that they have a common origin take from the dongola the felse or hood and the stem and the remainder is practically the kaik it is of all craft of its size the swiftest the most easy to handle and the most comfortable anti and the turks generally are admitted to be the best oarsmen oarsman in europe indeed they have need to be for both tho the and the golden horn II 11 are crowded with craft of every kind and made dangerous by the swiftest of currents cur renta the distances dW ances too ore very great and such as no ordinary oarsman would undertake for pl pleasure leure le ure or for the sake sae of bf ex exercise exemine eser cise emise it is no joke j 0 ke to pull 15 or 16 miles against a stream which in some places runs four or five knots an hour |