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The steamer's decks were crowded. Every 

 available portion of space, whether on deck or 

 below, was occupied by some one ; we were like 

 pigs in an Irish steam-vessel ; and such a motley 

 assemblage of Jews, Turks, Armenians, Greeks, 

 and Franks, of all countries — such a Babel-like 

 confusion of tongues, such an endless variety of 

 costume, and such a marked difference of feature, 

 form, and habits, as baffles all attempts at de- 

 scription. 



We were seventy-one passengers in all, and, 

 notwithstanding the indescribably small portion of 

 space allotted to each person, notwithstanding a 

 rolling sea and plenty of sea-sickness (and never 

 did I see persons suffer more than the whole 

 assembled party), every one, of every country, 

 tongue, and race, had {horresco refer ens) a pipe or 

 a cigar in his mouth. 



Oh ! the annoyance, the misery indescribable, 

 of sixty-nine or seventy pipes blowing clouds of 

 endless smoke in one's face, without ceasing, from 

 morning till night, and again from night till 

 morning I No man in the world is more to be 

 pitied than an unfortunate non-smoker who finds 

 himself amongst the Philistines— ramongst a num- 



