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errand had been, not to pave the way for my reception any where,
but to bring a parcel of pipe bowls with wheels attached
to them one on each side. Of this clumsy appendage what
can be the use? The man made signs as if they were to enable
the smoker to glide the pipe with greater facility upon
the floor on which the length of the tube obliges him to
it. I saw I think about 7 or 8 shops appropriated
solely to the vending of these implements with a very few
others of the same kind of ware. Ahmed suffered me to go
into a few others to buy some figs &c.; which gave me
a view of the greatest part of the Bazar (quarter for shops)
but either through laziness or prudence forbid my going any
further. I was therefore obliged to repress my wishes of exploring
a town which from the apparent wealth of its shops and the number and
size of its mosques promised to be considerable. The windows of our
apartment here too were of oiled paper: We had for supper a salad, composed of chopped onions, and a couple of the Turkish
hashes above-mentioned; and for desert some excellent grapes. I could
Identifier: | JB/540/227/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540. |
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1785-12-10 |
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227 |
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Journal |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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