I scarcely exaggerate when I say that you would see hardly a greater contrast in everything if you were transported from an English village to Timbuktoo. I have travelled to very remote parts of the Turkish empire, amongst the Nomads of Mesopotamia, and the Kurds on the Persian frontier, yet never did I feel myself in a more Moslem and Asiatic country than now, with an exception there was a very fair road.
Humphry Sandwith
A Trip into Bosnia in “Fraser’s Magazine”, December 1873 p. 698.