He wore a long cape of dark-blue cloth; and a high fez-cap, with a heron's plume and a diamond clasp, decked his head.

The greeting of the people, and the Sultan's mode of acknowledging it, is exactly as at Vienna, except that here the people at intervals raise a low cry of welcome.
As soon as the Sultan had entered the temple, all flocked in.

The men and the Franks (the latter without distinction of sex) sit or stand in the body of the temple.

The Turkish women sit in galleries, behind such close wire gratings that they are completely hidden.

The temple, or more properly the hall, is of inconsiderable size, and the spectators are only separated from the priests by a low railing.
At two o'clock the dervishes appeared, clad in long petticoats with innumerable folds, which reached to their heels.