The boatmen had taken up some of the marble blocks of the landing, and planting long oars2 upright in the ground, and fixing other oars crosswise on them, constructed a secure frame covered with fresh sail-cloth. From their vessels4 they had also brought material for a dais under the shelter thus improvised5; another sail for carpet, and a chair on the dais completed the stand whence the Princess was to view and judge the race.
A way was opened for her through the throng6, and with her attendants, she passed to the stand; and as she went, all the women near reached out their hands and reverently7 touched the skirt of her gown--so did their love for her trench8 on adoration9.
The shore from the stand to the town, and from the stand again around the promontory10 on the south, was thronged11 with spectators, while every vantage point fairly in view was occupied by them; even the ships were pressed into the service; and somehow the air over and about the bay seemed to give back and tremble with the eagerness of interest everywhere discernible.
Between Fanar, the last northern point of lookout12 over the Black Sea, and Galata, down on the Golden Horn, there are about thirty hamlets, villages and cities specking the European shore of the Bosphorus. Each of them has its settlement of fishermen. Aside from a voluminous net, the prime necessity for successful pursuit of the ancient and honorable calling is a boat. Like most things of use amongst men, the vessel3 of preferred model here came of evolution. The modern tourist may yet see its kind drawn13 up at every landing he passes.
Proper handling, inclusive of running out and hauling in the seine, demanded a skilful14 crew of at least five men; and as whole lives were devoted15 to rowing, the proficiency16 finally attained17 in it can be fancied. It was only natural, therefore, that the thirty communities should each insist upon having the crew of greatest excellence--the crew which could outrow any other five on the Bosphorus; and as every Byzantine Greek was a passionate18 gambler, the wagers20 were without end. Vauntings of the sort, like the Black Sea birds of unresting wings, went up and down the famous waterway.
At long intervals22 occasions presented for the proof of these men of pride; after which, for a period there was an admitted champion crew, and a consequent hush23 of the babble24 and brawl25.
In determining to conclude the fete with a boat-race open to all Greek comers from the capital to the Cyanian rocks, the Princess Irene did more than secure a desirable climax26; unconsciously, perhaps, she hit upon the measure most certain to bring peace to the thirty villages.
She imposed but two conditions on the competitors--they should be fishermen and Greeks.
The interval21 between the announcement of the race and the day set for it had been filled with boasting, from which one would have supposed the bay of Therapia at the hour of starting would be too contracted to hold the adversaries27. When the hour came there were six crews present actually prepared to contest for the prize--a tall ebony crucifix, with a gilded28 image, to be displayed of holidays on the winning prow29. The shrinkage told the usual tale of courage oozed30 out. There was of course no end of explanation.
About three o'clock, the six boats, each with a crew of five men, were held in front of the Princess' stand, representative of as many towns. Their prows31 were decorated with banderoles large enough to be easily distinguished32 at a distance--one yellow, chosen for Yenimahale; one blue, for Buyukdere; one white, for Therapia; one red, for Stenia; one green, for Balta-Liman; and one half white and half scarlet33, for Bebek. The crews were in their seats--fellows with knotted arms bare to the shoulder; white shirts under jackets the color of the flags, trousers in width like petticoats. The feet were uncovered that, while the pull was in delivery, they might the better clinch34 the cleats across the bottom of the boat.
The fresh black paint with which the vessels had been smeared35 from end to end on the outside was stoned smoothly36 down until it glistened37 like varnish38. Inside there was not a superfluity to be seen of the weight of a feather.
The contestants39 knew every point of advantage, and, not less clearly, they were there to win or be beaten doing their best. They were cool and quiet; much more so, indeed, than the respective clansmen and clanswomen.
From these near objects of interest, the Princess directed a glance over the spreading field of dimpled water to a galley40 moored41 under a wooded point across on the Asiatic shore. The point is now crowned with the graceful42 but neglected Kiosk of the Viceroy of Egypt. That galley was the thither43 terminus of the race course, and the winners turning it, and coming back to the place of starting, must row in all about three miles.
A little to the right of the Princess' stand stood a pole of height to be seen by the multitude as well as the rival oarsmen, and a rope for hoisting44 a white flag to the top connected it with the chair on the dais. At the appearance of the flag the boats were to start; while it was flying, the race was on.
And now the competitors are in position by lot from right to left. On bay and shore the shouting is sunk to a murmur45. A moment more--but in that critical period an interruption occurred.
A yell from a number of voices in sharpest unison46 drew attention to the point of land jutting47 into the water on the north side not inaptly called the toe of Therapia, and a boat, turning the point, bore down with speed toward the sail-covered stand. There were four rowers in it; yet its glossy48 sides and air of trimness were significant of a seventh competitor for some reason behind time. The black flag at the prow and the black uniform of the oarsmen confirmed the idea. The hand of the Princess was on the signal rope; but she paused.
As the boat-hook of the newcomers fell on the edge of the landing, one of them dropped upon his knees, crying: "Grace, O Princess! Grace, and a little time!"
The four were swarthy men, and, unlike the Greeks they were seeking to oppose, their swart was a peculiarity49 of birth, a racial sign. Recognizing them, the spectators near by shouted: "Gypsies! Gypsies!" and the jeer50 passed from mouth to mouth far as the bridge over the creek51 at the corner of the bay; yet it was not ill-natured. That these unbelievers of unknown origin, separatists like the Jews, could offer serious opposition53 to the chosen of the towns was ridiculous. Since they excited no apprehension54, their welcome was general.
"Why the need of grace? Who are you?" the Princess replied, gravely.
"We are from the valley by Buyukdere," the man returned.
"Are you fishermen?"
"Judged by our catches the year through, and the prices we get in the market, O Princess, it is not boasting to say our betters cannot be found, though you search both shores between Fanar and the Isles55 of the Princes."
This was too much for the bystanders. The presence they were in was not sufficient to restrain an outburst of derision.
"But the conditions of the race shut you out. You are not Greeks," the judge continued.
"Nay56, Princess, that is according to the ground of judgment57. If it please you to decide by birth and residence rather than ancestry58, then are we to be preferred over many of the nobles who go in and out of His Majesty's gates unchallenged. Has not the sweet water that comes down from the hills seeking the sea through our meadow furnished drink for our fathers hundreds of years? And as it knew them, it knows us."
"Well answered, I must admit. Now, my friend, do as wisely with what I ask next, and you shall have a place. Say you come out winners, what will you do with the prize? I have heard you are not Christians59."
The man raised his face the first time.
"Not Christians! Were the charge true, then, argument being for the hearing, I would say the matter of religion is not among the conditions. But I am a petitioner60, not lawyer, and to my rude thinking it is better that I hold on as I began. Trust us, O Princess! There is a plane tree, wondrous61 old, and with seven twin trunks, standing62 before our tents, and in it there is a hollow which shelters securely as a house. Attend me now, I pray. If happily we win, we will convert the tree into a cathedral, and build an altar in it, and set the prize above the altar in such style that all who love the handiworks of nature better than the artfulness of men may come and worship there reverently as in the holiest of houses, Sancta Sophia not excepted."
"I will trust you. With such a promise overheard by so many of this concourse, to refuse you a part in the race were a shame to the Immaculate Mother. But how is it you are but four?"
"We were five, O Princess; now one is sick. It was at his bidding we come; he thought of the hundreds of oarsmen who would be here one at least could be induced to share our fortune."
"You have leave to try them."
The man arose, and looked at the bystanders, but they turned away.
"A hundred noumiae for two willing hands!" he shouted.
There was no reply. "If not for the money, then in honor of the noble lady who has feasted you and your wives and children."
A voice answered out of the throng: "Here am I!" and presently the hamari appeared with the bear behind him.
"Here," he said, "take care of Joqard for me. I will row in the sick man's place, and"--
The remainder of the sentence was lost in an outburst of gibing--and laughter. Finally the Princess asked the rowers if they were satisfied with the volunteer.
They surveyed him doubtfully.
"Art thou an oarsman?" one of them asked.
"There is not a better on the Bosphorus. And I will prove it. Here, some of you--take the beast off my hands. Fear not, friend, Joqard's worst growl63 is inoffensive as thunder without lightning. That's a good man."
And with the words the hamari released the leading strap64, sprang into the boat, and without giving time for protest or remonstrance65, threw off his jacket and sandals, tucked up his shirt-sleeves, and dropped into the vacant fifth seat. The dexterity66 with which he then unshipped the oars and took them in hand measurably quieted the associates thus audaciously adopted; his action was a kind of certificate that the right man had been sent them.
"Believe in me," he said, in a low tone. "I have the two qualities which will bring us home winners--skill and endurance." Then he spoke67 to the Princess: "Noble lady, have I your consent to make a proclamation?"
The manner of the request was singularly deferential68. Sergius observed the change, and took a closer look at him while the Princess was giving the permission.
Standing upon the seat, the hamari raised his voice: "Ho, here--there-- every one!" and drawing a purse from his bosom69, he waved it overhead, with a louder shout, "See!--a hundred noumiae, and not all copper70 either. Piece against piece weighed or counted, I put them in wager19! Speak one or all. Who dares the chance?"
Takers of the offer not appearing on the shore, he shook the purse at his competitors.
"If we are not Christians," he said to them, "we are oarsmen and not afraid. See--I stake this purse--if you win, it is yours."
He put the purse back slowly, and recounting the several towns of his opponents by their proper names in Greek, he cried: "Buyukdere, Therapia, Stenia, Bebek, Balta-Liman, Yenimahale--your women will sing you low to-night!" Then to the Princess: "Allow us now to take our place seventh on the left."
The bystanders were in a maze72. Had they been served with a mess of brag73, or was the fellow really capable? One thing was clear--the interest in the race had taken a rise perceptible in the judge's stand not less than on the crowded shore.
The four Gypsies, on their part, were content with the volunteer. In fact, they were more than satisfied when he said to them, as their vessel turned into position:
"Now, comrades, be governed by me; and besides the prize, if we win, you shall have my purse to divide amongst you man and man. Is it agreed?" And they answered, foreman and all, yes. "Very well," he returned. "Do you watch, and get the time and force from me. Now for the signal."
The Princess sent the starting flag to the top of the pole, and the boats were off together. A great shout went up from the spectators--a shout of men mingled74 with the screams of women to whom a hurrah75 or cheer of any kind appears impossible.
To warm the blood, there is nothing after all like the plaudits of a multitude looking on and mightily76 concerned. This was now noticeable. The eyes of all the rowers enlarged; their teeth set hard; the arteries77 of the neck swelled78; and even in their tension the muscles of the arms quivered.
A much better arrangement would have been to allow the passage of the racers broadside to the shore; for then the shiftings of position, and the strategies resorted to would have been plain to the beholders; as it was, each foreshortened vessel soon became to them a black body, with but a man and one pair of oars in motion; and sometimes provokingly indistinguishable, the banderoles blew backward squarely in a line with the direction of the movement. Then the friends on land gave over exercising their throats; finally drawn down to the water's edge, and pressing on each other, they steadied and welded into a mass, like a wall.
Once there was a general shout. Gradually the boats had lost the formation of the start, and falling in behind each other, assumed an order comparable to a string. While this change was going on, a breeze unusually strong blew from the south, bringing every flag into view at the same time: when it was perceived that the red was in the lead. Forthwith the clansmen of Stenia united in a triumphant79 yell, followed immediately, however, by another yet louder. It was discovered, thanks to the same breeze, that the black banderole of the Gypsies was the last of the seven. Then even those who had been most impressed by the bravado80 of the hamari, surrendered themselves to laughter and sarcasm81.
"See the infidels!" "They had better be at home taking care of their kettles and goats!" "Turn the seven twins into a cathedral, will they? The devil will turn them into porpoises82 first!" "Where is the hamari now--where? By St. Michael, the father of fishermen, he is finding what it is to have more noumiae than brains! Ha, ha, ha!"
Nevertheless the coolest of the thirty-five men then scudding83 the slippery waterway was the hamari--he had started the coolest--he was the coolest now.
For a half mile he allowed his crew to do their best, and with them he had done his best. The effort sufficed to carry them to the front, where he next satisfied himself they could stay, if they had the endurance. He called to them:
"Well done, comrades! The prize and the money are yours! But ease up a little. Let them pass. We will catch them again at the turn. Keep your eyes on me."
Insensibly he lessened84 the dip and reach of his oars; at last, as the thousands on the Therapian shore would have had it, the Gypsy racer was the hinderling of the pack. Afterwards there were but trifling85 changes of position until the terminal galley was reached.
By a rule of the race, the contestants were required to turn the galley, keeping it on the right; and it was a great advantage to be a clear first there, since the fortunate party could then make the round unhindered and in the least space. The struggle for the point began quite a quarter of a mile away. Each crew applied86 itself to quickening the speed--every oar1 dipped deeper, and swept a wider span;--on a little, and the keepers of the galley could hear the half groan87, half grunt88 with which the coming toilers relieved the extra exertion89 now demanded of them;--yet later, they saw them spring to their feet, reach far back, and finish the long deep draw by falling, or rather toppling backward to their seats.
Only the hamari eschewed90 the resort for the present. He cast a look forward, and said quickly: "Attend, comrades!" Thereupon he added weight to his left delivery, altering the course to an angle which, if pursued, must widen the circle around the galley instead of contracting it.
On nearing the goal the rush of the boats grew fiercer; each foreman, considering it honor lost, if not a fatal mischance, did he fail to be first at the turning-point, persisted in driving straight forward--a madness which the furious yelling of the people on the marker's deck intensified91. This was exactly what the hamari had foreseen. When the turn began five of the opposing vessels ran into each other. The boil and splash of water, breaking of oars, splintering of boatsides; the infuriate cries, oaths, and blind striving of the rowers, some intent on getting through at all hazards, some turned combatants, striking or parrying with their heavy oaken blades; the sound of blows on breaking heads; plunges92 into the foaming93 brine; blood trickling94 down faces and necks, and reddening naked arms--such was the catastrophe95 seen in its details from the overhanging gunwale of the galley. And while it went on, the worse than confused mass drifted away from the ship's side, leaving a clear space through which, with the first shout heard from him during the race, the hamari urged his crew, and rounded the goal.
On the far Therapian shore the multitude were silent. They could dimly see every incident at the turn--the collision, fighting, and manifold mishaps96, and the confounding of the banderoles. Then the Stenia colors flashed round the galley, with the black behind it a close second.
"Is that the hamari's boat next the leader?"
Thus the Princess, and upon the answer, she added: "It looks as if the Holy One might find servants among the irreclaimables in the valley."
Had the Gypsies at last a partisan97?
The two rivals were now clear of the galley. For a time there was but one cry heard--"Stenia! Stenia!" The five oarsmen of that charming town had been carefully selected; they were vigorous, skilful, and had a chief well-balanced in judgment. The race seemed theirs. Suddenly--it was when the homestretch was about half covered--the black flag rushed past them.
Then the life went out of the multitude. "St. Peter is dead!" they cried--"St. Peter is dead! It is nothing to be a Greek now!" and they hung their heads, refusing to be comforted.
The Gypsies came in first; and amidst the profoundest silence, they dropped their oars with a triumphant crash on the marble revetment. The hamari wiped the sweat from his face, and put on his jacket and sandals; pausing then to toss his purse to the foreman, and say: "Take it in welcome, my friends. I am content with my share of the victory," he stepped ashore98. In front of the judge's stand, he knelt, and said: "Should there be a dispute touching99 the prize, O Princess, be a witness unto thyself. Thine eyes have seen the going and the coming; and if the world belie52 thee not--sometimes it can be too friendly--thou art fair, just and fearless."
On foot again, his courtierly manner vanished in a twinkling.
"Joqard, Joqard? Where are you?"
Some one answered: "Here he is."
"Bring him quickly. For Joqard is an example to men--he is honest, and tells no lies. He has made much money, and allowed me to keep it all, and spend it on myself. Women are jealous of him, but with reason--he is lovely enough to have been a love of Solomon's; his teeth are as pearls of great price; his lips scarlet as a bride's; his voice is the voice of a nightingale singing to the full moon from an acacia tree fronded100 last night; in motion, he is now a running wave, now a blossom on a swaying branch, now a girl dancing before a king--all the graces are his. Yes, bring me Joqard, and keep the world; without him, it is nothing to me."
While speaking, from a jacket pocket he brought out the fan Lael had thrown him from the portico101, and used it somewhat ostentatiously to cool himself. The Princess and her attendants laughed heartily102. Sergius, however, watched the man with a scarcely defined feeling that he had seen him. But where? And he was serious because he could not answer.
Taking the leading strap, when Joqard was brought, the hamari scrupled103 not to give the brute104 a hearty105 cuff106, whereat the fishermen shook the sails of the pavilion with laughter; then, standing Joqard up, he placed one of the huge paws on his arm, and, with the mincing107 step of a lady's page, they disappeared.
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