310 GREEK WASHERWOMEN. 



opinions as to the quantity and description of 

 clothes with which they, whilst standing in the 

 water, ought to be covered. This was the more 

 observable after entering the Servian territory, 

 where I have often been much amused at seeing 

 twenty or thirty at a time up to and often far 

 above their knees in water, washing clothes and 

 gossipping together in a very natural, but cer- 

 tainly not fashionable, and which malicious, evil- 

 disposed persons might be inclined to term, not 

 a decent, arrangement of the smallest possible 

 amount of clothing. 



On board the Danube steamers, the persons 

 most to be pitied were certainly the unfortunate 

 Turks when oroina: through their devotions. 



Part of a Moslem's devotions consists in saying 

 a few words of a prayer, and then prostrating 

 himself with his forehead on the ground in the 

 direction of Mecca, remaining in that position for 

 a minute, or perhaps two minutes. Great used 

 to be the consternation and dismay of these un- 

 fortunate fellows, when, on rising up to their 

 kneeling position from their prostration, they 

 found, to their inexpressible horror, that instead of 



