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widely-extended mouth. The poultry and tiic 

 boiled meats are divided into pieces, and torn with 

 the hands and nails. I'he roast meats are served 

 up in little pieces, cut before they are put to the 

 spit, and no where can you cat better roasted meat 

 than in the countries of Turkey. The table does 

 not afford an opportunity for conversation. They 

 only seat themselves to eat very rapidly ; they make 

 quick dispatch, and swallow with precipitation. 

 They are not men whom the pleasure of society 

 assembles together, they are brutes whom want and 

 voraciousness collect around their pasture. The 

 grease distils from each side of their mouths. The 

 stomach sends forth frequent fumes, which they 

 lengthen out and render as noisy as they can. He 

 whose hunger is soonest appeased rises from table 

 first. It is not regarded as a want of politeness 

 to remain alone at the board, if your appetite is 

 not perfectly satisfied. fM 



During my abode at Siont i did not fail to fre- 

 quent the baths, to which I had taken so great a 

 liking, and which appeared to me very salutar)'. 

 These baths are neither so handsome nor so well 

 attended to as at Cairo. Besides the different man- 

 ners of kneading the fiesh, of suppling the limbs, 

 and of rubbing the body, the Sybarites of these 

 countries take great pleasure, in their own houses, 

 in having the soles of their feet rubbed with pieces 



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