22 BAZAAR. 



of merchandise are placed during the day and 

 removed at night. Persons who work at trades, 

 such as tailors, embroiderers, shoemakers, &c., sit 

 upon these boards and work ; whilst those shop- 

 keepers whose only business is to sell merchandise, 

 have all their goods placed out in order upon these 

 boards, to seduce the wandering eye of the passers 

 by. Each trade has its own particular street or 

 part of the Bazaar, so that it is an easy matter to 

 make purchases, if a traveller goes to the Bazaar 

 with a perfect knowledge of what he really does 

 want. Like all places of the same kind, there is 

 much to tempt the traveller in these Bazaars ; and 

 I recommend every one to make up his mind 

 before he ventures through them as to the exact 

 amount of money he is disposed to spend. 



The shopkeepers are of all kinds, Turks, Greeks, 

 and Jews. Since the adoption by the Turks of 

 the fez, or red cap, instead of the turban, it is not 

 easy for an inexperienced eye to distinguish 

 between a Greek and a Turk ; but the Turks have 

 obliged the Greeks to wear a small badge or mark, 

 generally of sewn silk, on one side of the fez, by 

 which they can be immediately recognized. 



The Albanians generally wear a short jacket of 



