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it. There is, however, a great deal of art chap. 
. . IV. 
used ill preparing it ; nor will it bear a sea- - > 
voyage ; for when brought to this country, it 
loses almost all its agreeable properties. The 
manufacturers of pipe-tubes are seen at work Tchibougue 
every day in the shops belonging to the street todies. ^^" 
leading to the sea-side, opposite to Pera ; and 
there is also an open bazar for the sale of such 
tubes, which are called Tchibouques\ They are 
made by boring straight stems of the cherry- 
tree, or of jessamine, with the bark on, six feet 
in length, by means of a turning wire auger, to 
which a mouth-piece is afterwards fitted, of 
amber, ivory, bone, or horn, sometimes adorned 
with gems, or, wanting such costly materials, 
with pieces of coloured glass. A tchibougue of 
cherry-tree wood, with a fine shining bark, of 
five feet in length, or one of the jessamine, six 
or eight feet in length, tipped with pale- 
(l) Sometimes Tchibouque is used to signify the whole apparatus of 
the Pipe, which consists of three parts ; the bowl, the tube, and the 
mouth-piece. 
" Thrice clapped his hands, and called his steed, 
Resigned his gem-adorned Tchibouque, 
And mounting featly for the mead, 
With Maugrabee — and Mamaluke — 
His way amid his Delis took," &c. "^ 
Byron's " Bride (yf' Jbydos," line 232. 
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