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disciplined troops called Nizam Djidid, but these 
troops no longer exist. 
Persons who wish to go from one of these suburbs 
to Constantinople, cross the port in a small boat with 
one or two rowers, and land in covered places, where 
there are quantities of boats heaped upon each another. 
These magazines are of wood, and you enter thein, 
. without landing. At the door, on the land side, there 
are always horses for hire ready harnessed and equip- 
ped to transport travellers to their destination, through 
dirty and steep streets, bordered on each side with 
work-shops, and houses in which are sold provisions, 
sweetmeats, tobacco, drugs, &c. These houses are of 
wood painted with dark colours, and form projecting 
and retiring angles with each other, without the least 
uniformity. 
I was lodged in a very fine khan built of hewn stone, 
without any other company than my Turkish drago- 
man or interpreter, my slave, and a janissary. 
My dragoman was a singular personage. He was 
born a Christian, and was a native of Albania. He 
went to Europe to study medicine; and after having 
travelled for this purpose during five years in Italy, 
France, and Germany, he remained two years at 
Vienna with the first physician of the emperor Joseph 
the second, in the palace of that prince, with whom 
he had the honour to converse several times. At that 
period he used to dress in the costume of Europe. 
Upon his return to Constantinople, he turned Mus- 
sulman, and had nothing to subsist on when he en- 
gaged with me. 
The conversation of this man had something ori- 
ginal in it. As I could not speak Turkish, and he did 
not understand Arabic, he made use of a macaronic 
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