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hoped for the best. As we were out, we pursued our 

 peregrinations a while, and inspected the domestic 

 economy of the establishment. The building occu- 

 pied a large square, with the court open in the middle. 

 The stables and other offices occupied most of the 

 ground floor, though some little room was left for 

 public apartments. The gallery, on one side of which 

 we were lodged, extended round the court, and was 

 throughout divided into separate guest - chambers. 

 These were all, like ours, solid square cells, affording 

 the accommodation of four walls, and a pan for fire. 

 Besides this,, each room contained a water pitcher, 

 and this was the sum of furniture. We promenaded 

 for some time up and down the gallery, and peeped 

 into many open doors, so that we saw several samples. 

 In one or two of these we saw parties of travellers, on 

 whom we gazed with as little ceremony as had been 

 used towards ourselves, and with as little offence. 

 They certainly were worth looking at, for they were 

 wild fellows, collected from no one knows where, and 

 looked uncommonly picturesque. At last our host 

 brought in the supper, for which we were particularly 

 well-disposed. We were at no time fastidious, and 

 at that precise moment of most indulgent mood to- 

 ward all cooks. But the mess that appeared almost 

 baffled appetite. Turkish cookery, as practised by 

 the great, is first-rate in its kind. But if this supper 

 was a fair sample of their homely fare, I should not 

 be ambitious of again proving the cookery of a Id tun. 



