S6 FROM iNEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, their appearance ; but as soon as darkness 
. enabled them to venture forth from their lurking- 
places, the booth became filled with fiercer 
ruffians than we had seen since our visit to the 
Circassians of Caucasus. Their coming was an- 
nounced by the firing of their tophaihes; first 
at a distance, and then close to the booth. As 
Perilous Qur miserable shed was open to all the winds of 
situation of • i i i i i • 
the Au- heaven, and we wished to keep a lamp burnmg, 
thor and , , . ■• . 
his Com- we were employed m placmg paper over some 
panions. ^^ ^^^^ holcs, and in covering the crevices with 
our packing clothes, when we found them sud- 
denly torn down by these fellows without, who 
presented their grim visages, looking through 
the apertures in the sides of the booth, to see 
who were within. All this while the firing of 
their tophaihes continued so close to us, that we 
expected at every instant to receive a random 
shot. Presently a party of them rushed into 
the booth, and became clamorous for coffee. 
While this was serving \ they seated themselves 
(l) " This custom of calling for coffee in a public booth in Turkey 
answers to the practice among our lower orders of calling for ieer or 
spirituous liquors. The cqff^ee is presented in cups that hold about as 
much of this beverage as would fill a table-spoon, aud as thick as 
mud ; the thicker the better. For this the guest pays one para, A 
Turk will enjoy his evening with as much gaiety and satisfaction, who 
spends six paras for his coffee, and tu/o for his tobacco, as an Englisltman 
who 
