A WOMAN AND A SULTAN
I Th© first Englishwoman to have speech [ with a Sultan of Turkey vr&a Mary Fisher, a Quakeress, who in 1657 underi took to convert the _ Commander of the Faithful to Christianity (writes a London chronicler). She travelled by water to Smyrna, and then tramped to Adrianople — about 600 miles away— where Mahomet IV. was encamped with his army. After many attempts, Mary found someone bold enough to tell the Grand Vixier that "a woman was come "who had something to declare from the Great God to the Sultan." H« arranged for an audienoe with his master, at which three dragomans were in attendance a» interpreters, and Mahomet was 60 impressed with what he heard that, while unwilling to become a Christian, he desired that Mary _ should stay in his dominions. When she insisted on returning, he offered her an escort, adding, "I wotdd not for anything that you should come to the least hurt. Sho got back safely to England, and was honoured ever after among her folJowQuakera as "«h* that *pake to the Grand
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 4
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180A WOMAN AND A SULTAN Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 4
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