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lodgings with a set of dancers. The concert was composed of three 

 instruments not unlike clarionets, and a number of drums of different 

 sizes. The shrillness of, the pipes, and the stunning noise of the 

 drums were ill suited to the little room in which we were sitting. 

 Both musicians and dancers were strolling gypsies in the Turkish 

 dress ; one acted the part of clown or buffoon ; and the dance was 

 altogether so indecent, that we soon dismissed them. 



Boyuk Bounarbashi which Hadim Oglou told us was so much 

 more worthy of being visited than the Bounarbashi in sight of 

 Yenicher, is about twenty miles from Evjilah at the foot of Gar- 

 garus. It has its name like the other from the copious springs of 

 water near it. A large modern fountain, from which three streams 

 flow, has been built of blocks of marble, probably from some ruins 

 in the neighbourhood ; but we could detect neither inscription nor 

 sculpture of ancient date : in the adjoining burial-ground are a few 

 granite columns. 



We proceeded hence in a S.W. direction, passing a village named 

 Turcmanly ; our road was through a plain, Salkecheui Deresi, bounded 

 by a range of hills called Kara-dag, " the black hills :" there is 

 another village, Sapoory, at which we did not stop ; and about 

 fourteen miles from Boyuk Bounarbashi we arrived at Aivajek. 

 This is a town of about two hundred houses, under the jurisdiction 

 of Osman Aga, who is independent of Hadim Oglou, or at least 

 wished to make us think so, by the contempt with which he treated 

 that governor's Bouyurdee. At this place we were received with rude- 

 ness and insult ; and were sent to a Khan with a guard to watch us, 

 until the suspicious Aga had examined our passports and cross- 

 questioned our guides. He would not admit us to his presence ; 

 but ordered us to leave his territory without delay ; and we departed 

 as soon as we could procure some horses. The Khan in which we 

 halted was built by the present Aga; it has about thirty rooms 

 besides stables ; some of which are let out to pedlars* tailors, and 

 other tradesmen, who come occasionally to reside here. From the 

 inhospitable town of Aivajek we proceeded by a road winding 



