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are great travellers, and added, with a sly look, 

 " I will tell you why. You write a great deal 

 about all you see, and every thing there is to 

 laugh at ; and when you get home, and find your- 

 self in a bad humour, you read over all you have 

 written to get into a good humour again." 

 "Yes," said I, "and likewise to have the pleasure 

 of telling our friends anecdotes of our adventures, 

 and making them stare about persons and places 

 they have never seen." He said that the English 

 travelled a good deal in Turkey, because Turks 

 were always so glad to see foreigners, but that he 

 suspected that a Turk travelling in England 

 would find it very different. " It might be so," we 

 said, " but Turks so seldom liked to leave their 

 harems, that they could not tell." This brigadier 

 appeared to be exceedingly desirous to impress 

 us with a favourable opinion of himself, his sol- 

 diers, and his countrymen. 



After pipes and coffee had been introduced, 

 the bimbashi, or captain of the day, came to re- 

 port that the barracks were ready for our inspec- 

 tion, and, in doing so, saluted the brigadier in 

 the curious manner the Turks always do a supe- 



