The Bashi Bazouks

The Tnrkish army is divided, like ;hat of Bussia, into regular and irregu ar troops. The former, called Nizams nd Itadifs, correspond with the standng armies and reserves of most coun;ries in Europe. The latter are a wild ïerd of barbarians, fortunately unknown ,o the civilized eountries, except Bussia and Turkey. What the Cossacks are", and what the Bashkips used to be, in ikissia, the Bashi Bazouks are in Turcey - irregular volunteers, said to nummer about 80,000, hailing mostly f rom he warlike tribes of the Ottoman Emñia in the interior of Asia. The name of these Bashi Bazouks is quite (significant, meaning giddy-heads or mad-caps. During the Eastern war, frwenty years Neither the"Turks, nor the French General Yussuf, specially called from África, nor the British General Beatson succeeded in teaching them anything like order or discipline. Kepeatedly it became necessary to disarm them, and inally to send them back to their native ïaunts. In the present conflict the Jttoman Government uses these savages as a scourge upon the Christians, especially in Bulgaria, and with such efficiency that many thousands of the attor have been slaughtered, their vilages burnt and their churches desecrated. Nothing has more justly provoked the indignation of Europe than he use to which these Asiatic hordes ïave been put by their masters.