370 PREPARING FOR MARKET. 
There is a good deal of difference in their rate of work. One 
man may pick only fifty pounds weight a day, while another 
does twice that quantity. It is necessary to watch them 
closely, or * they will put a dirty brown leaf with a pale 
yellow. They neither know nor care about the losses that . 
may be incurred by the merchant, whose samples may be thus 
spoiled. A bale of leaf purchased at five piastres per oque, 
when dissected by the Greek for various markets will be 
found to contain varieties ranging in price from 5 to 60 
piastres ; of these some are dispatched to Odessa, some to 
Smyrna, others to Constantinople, Alexandria, and England 
—the mixed and common qualities generally to the latter 
country, the price there obtained being the least remunerative 
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TURKISH TOBACCO GOING TO MARKET, 
to the Greek shippers. The bales are brought from .the 
interior to the shipping ports upon mules, each animal carry- 
ing two bales; and it is a pretty sight to witness, say 150 
mules at a time, crossing mountains and rugged paths with 
their burdens, followed by perhaps fifty camels laden with 
cotton, marching to the merry tinkle of the bells on their 
necks. When the tobacco reaches the shipping port the 
troubles of the exporter are intensified. The bales are first 
taken tothe Custom House, and there weighed. The weights 
thus arrived at are compared with the quantity received from 
the interior, and if there be any material difference the ship- 
per has to account for it. If any has been sold for consump- 
tion in Turkey, duty has to be paid upon the amount; and 
in order that no part of his shipment may be used in the 
country, he has to sign a bond that the tobacco shall not be 
landed in any other port of Turkey. On the arrival of 
