 | Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 472 sider
...hardly ever drilled, even to company work ; and that, with the exception of the common manual exercise, they know nothing of a soldier's duty, and have nothing of a soldier's carriage or manly bearing. We rather frequently passed the great enclosed square of the Seraskeriat, by the celebrated tower in... | |
 | Moses Edrehi - 1855 - 644 sider
...and to hear the former address the latter with the sympathetic terms of djanum, (my soul,) or koozum, (my lamb.) The garrison being concentrated in four...cross-belts, and being poorly and coarsely clothed. Constantinople possessed, in the year 1842, eleven large barracks, having 40,000 men. The barracks... | |
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... slovenly soldier, and punish him severely for neglect. In that case, blows and gross language are not spared. It is much more common, however, to see officers as negligent and apathetic as their men, and to hear the former address the latter with... 