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used for smoking tobacco. A traveler gives the following 

 graphic description of smoking among them : 



"As each man smokes only out of his own pipe, it is not 

 surprising that this instrument is an indispensable accompa- 



TURK SMOKING. 



niment of every person of rank. Men of the higher classes 

 keep two or three servants to attend to their pipes. While 

 one looks after things at home, the other has to accompany 

 his master in his walks and rides. The long stem is on such 

 occasions packed in a finely embroidered cloth cover, while 

 the bowl, tobacco, and other accessories are carried by the 

 servant in a pouch at his side. A stranger in Constantinople 

 will often regard with curiosity and surprise, a proud Osmanli 

 on foot or horseback, followed by an attendant who, through 

 the long, carefully-packed instrument which he carries, gives 

 one the idea that he is a weapon-bearer of some heroic period 

 following his lord to some dangerous rendezvous. So are 

 the times altered. What the armor-bearer was for the war- 

 like races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate 

 descendants. 



"To smoke from sixty to eighty pipes a day is by no 

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