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reaching their beds. Hereon they spread their mats and
arranged their clcaks, and it was amusing to watch each
drawing forth h. no pipe, and preparing with the aid of a
bag of tobacco t ..  _ the fatigues and sufferings of two
nights’ exposure in such a position. These Turks are the
most quiet and orderly peonle in the world when their religious
fanaticism is untouched, in which case they are at once
changed into the most sanguinary savages imaginable,
Some of our passengers were people of good quality, with servants
 accompanying them, and they slept in the cabin; but
the whole of the day was spent in reposing upon their mats,
their legs tucked under, and their long pipes in their mouths.
A few words sometimes were exchanged, but the conversation
seemed always to be a secondary affair to the enjoyment of
the pipe.
“= found great amusement ir. viking up and down the
deck between these rows ¢ ve 37 .ussulmans, whose
picturesque dresses . 7 urms «* various kinds afforded me
constant interest, ls’ the honest Turks felt equal
amusement in rue’. i over their pipes upon the motives
which could cause : Cinour like me to set mysclf the task of
walking to and fro on the deck for nothing that they could
understand, unless for some religious penance. There wero
two old men with green turbans, who five times during the
doy put aside their pipes, turning to the east, and, bowing
their foreheuds to their fees, uttered with great fervour their
Prayers. All this passed unnoticed by their very next
neighbours—for the Turks are not (what nurses say of
children) arrived at the cov fre faking notice. I have seen
all sorts of strange sceneu L-nmen without disturbing the
dreaming sttention of the Turk. Once in Cairo I was looking
out of & window, beneath which three smokers were sitting
upon their mats: a boy was drivin g an ass loaded with gravel
aad sand, which tripped just as it was passing full trot by the

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