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hira the reason of this extraordinary conduct, chap. 
III. 
" I have no complaint to make," said the 
Italian; '*but 1 can earn more money here 
as a physician, and therefore must wear a 
different dress." The next day he presented 
himself to his former master in the medical 
calpac and furred robe, laughing heartily at 
his own metamorphosis. 
This evening, at sun-set, we had the same 
ushering in of uproar that we witnessed in 
Yeriiga ; and a brilliant illumination round the 
mosque and minaret, proclaiming another holy 
night of Ramadan, announced to all true Moslems, Ramddnn. 
that " Paradise had opened its doors, and 
THAT THE GATES OF HeLL WERE SHUT*." The 
pleasantest Ramadan which the Turks have, is 
that which happens in this season of the year 
{January)', because the days spent in fasting are 
(l) See Rycaut's Ottoman Empire, p. 160. Lend. 1670. — This was 
the burden of a vocal serenade which a Turk gave us during this 
night, accompanying his voi'?e by a tambour, so as to have rather a 
mournful, but a pleasing effect. 
" During the Ramadan, I often listened to the songs or hymns of 
ihe Turks in the streets; awA Antatdo, assisted by xhe Tchohodar, 
would translate them for us. For the first time, however, I heard one 
this night, in Kishan, that was truly harmonious. It was from a 
Turkish improvisator e, who accompanied the measure of an extem- 
poraneous hymn with a tambour." — Cripps's MS. Journal. 
