几张木板刻画
【第一张图有个可可爱爱小故事】
1856年2月，克里米亚战争的末期，苏丹阿卜杜勒·迈吉德一世接受邀请，参加了英法两国大使馆召开的舞会。他于2月2日前往英国大使馆，4日去了法国大使馆。他还带着他的嘉德勋章来参加。苏丹在舞会上彬彬有礼地打招呼，玩得很开心，不过没有跳舞，而是由Stratford Cunning爵士领到了专门给他设的椅子上（苏丹还和帕夏一起喝了几杯香槟。帕夏：这是eau gazeuse）
以下引用英国贷款专员Sir Edmund Hornby的夫人Lady Emilia Hornby的一段描述，就，很可爱：
The Sultan had, with very good taste, left his own Guard at the Galata Serai, and was escorted thence to the palace by a company of English Lancers, every other man carrying a torch. Lord Stratford and his Staff , of course, met him at the carriage-door, and as he alighted, a communication by means of galvanic wires was made to the fl eet, who saluted him with prolonged salvoes of cannon. Lady Stratford and her daughters received him at the head of the staircase . . . It would take me a day to enumerate half the costumes. But everyone who had been to the Queen’s bals costumés agreed that they did not approach this one in magnifi cence; for besides the gathering of French, Sardinian and English offi cers, the people of the country appeared in their own superb and varied costumes; and the groups were beyond all description beautiful. Th e Greek Patriarch, the American Archbishop, the Jewish High Priest, were there in their robes of state. Real Persians, Albanians, Kourds, Servians，Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Austrians, Sardinians, Italians, and Spaniards were there in their diff erent dresses, and many wore their jewelled arms. Th ere were . . . and Turkish ladies without their veils . . . Abdul Medjid quietly walked up the ball-room with Lord and Lady Stratford, their daughters, and a gorgeous array of Pashas in the rear. He paused with evident delight and pleasure at the really beautiful scene before him, bowing on both sides, and smiling as he went . . . Pashas . . . drink vast quantities of champagne, of which they pretend not to know the exact genus, and slyly call it “eau gazeuse”.
Stanley Lane Poole为Stratford Canning写的传记里也提到了苏丹参加舞会。
还有一件很搞笑的事情：坦志麦特及教育委员会的成员，Ahmet Cevdet帕夏也被邀请参加舞会了。但是他觉得哪有帕夏参加外国大使馆舞会的事情，帕夏平时都不去英国大使馆的。所以他问大维齐尔自己应不应该去，大维齐尔让他去问şeyhülislam，şeyhülislam和他说：大维齐尔知道（The grand vizier knows best）——所以这个Ahmet Cevdet帕夏就决定还是听自己的，不去了吧。
然而实际上，从1855年开始帕夏是会去大使馆拜访的，这次然后苏丹本人也去参加舞会了
以上来自C Badem - The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856), 2010的第五章
