text:  The contrast is of the most exciting kind:--we have the Bedouin with his lance and desert home hovering round the European carriage but now guarding what his fathers would have plundered; the caravan with all its camels turbaned merchants and dashing cavalry moving along the river's bank on whose waters the steam-boat is rushing; the many-coloured and many-named tribes of the South meeting the men of every European nation in the streets where the haughty Osmanli was once master