Finding grounds

ln view of such possibilities the Russians are keenly sensitive to every wind that blows from Constantinople. Their army is once more changing its quarters for sanitary reasons. The hope of finding a perfect camping ground seems to lure it on like an ignis fatuus, for every good sanitary situation is nearer Constantinople than the last. lf the slightest disturbance occurs in the city the army will be upon us.

Henry O. Dwight, Turkish Life in War Time; New York, 1881