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ingredient which might add to its nutritive chap. 
•quaHties, could be purchased at any time, in 
-small cups, each containing as much of the 
liquid as would fill a dessert spoon, the rest 
being substantial sediment : this, and the fumes 
of tobacco, promised to be the whole of our 
sustenance. At night, the spectacle on board 
was perhaps one of the most striking which 
persons unaccustomed to venture with Turkish 
mariners can possibly witness. The ship 
seemed to be left pretty much to her own dis- 
cretion; every officer of the watch being fast 
asleep, the port-holes all open, an enormous 
•quantity of canvas let loose, and the passengers 
between decks, with paper lanterns, slumbering 
over their lighted pipes ; while the sparks from 
these pipes, with pieces of ignited fungus', were 
flying in all directions. Now and then, an 
unexpected roll called forth murmuring ejacu- 
lations of "■Alia!" or " Mahmoud !'' and a few 
were seen squatted singly, numbering their 
prayers, by the beads upon their Te.spies\ Upon 
one of these occasions, the weather being 
(1) Commonly called Ariuuhu, the Boletus igniarius, used all over 
Europe aud./«« as tinder ; although rarely applied to that purpose ia 
England. 
(2) See Chap. VII. Vol. IV. p. 305, Note (2,\ Octavo edit. 
