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used for smoking tobacco. A traveler gives the following 
graphic description of smoking among them: 
“ As each man smokes only out of his own pipe, it is not 
surprising that this instrument is an indispensable accompa- 
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niment of every person of rank. Men of the higher classes 
keep two or three servants to attend to their pipes. While 
one looks after things at home, the other has to accompany 
his master in his walks and rides. The long stem is on such 
occasions packed in a finely embroidered cloth cover, while 
the bowl, tobacco, and other accessories are carried by the 
servant in a pouch at his side. A stranger in Constantinople 
will often regard with curiosity and surprise, a proud Osmanli 
on foot or horseback, followed by an attendant who, through 
the long, carefully-packed instrument which he carries, gives 
one the idea that he is a weapon-bearer of some heroic period 
following his lord to some dangerous rendezvous. So are 
the times altered. What the armor-bearer was for the war- 
like races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate 
descendants. 
“To smoke from sixty to eighty pipes a day is by no 
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