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Title: Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Barker, William Burckhardt Ainsworth, William, 1807-1896
Subjects: Cilicia -- History
Publisher: London : R. Griffin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, amongst whom, as well as amongst the crew, therewas nobody who understood the Italian, or, as they called it, the Latintongue. I remained on board the ship that day and the following; andwas bargaining for a horse and mules to take mc to Antakia, when, tomy great satisfaction, a caravan from Aleppo came down to the coastwith Indian goods; I soon got acquainted with the muleteers, and mademy bargain with one of them for the whole journey from Suedieh toAleppo. He first asked fifty piastres per kantar (about five hundredpounds English weight). I got him down to thirty, and was afterwardsinformed at Aleppo that I should not have paid more than twenty-five. It is a great point gained by travellers in these countries if theycan make with their mule or camel-drivers the usual bargain of thecountry. If the muleteer overcharges them, he makes a boast of itwherever he goes ; the traveller is immediately known to be a personlittle conversant with the customs of the country, and he may be sure
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o is S w . burckiiardts account of cilicia. 361 to be dealt with accordingly in every respect, wherever the mvile-driveraccompanies him. I was helping the sen-ants to distribute my baggageinto mules loads, and to tie it round with cords, when the aga sent forme. I foiind him smoking his pipe in a miserable room, surrounded byhis people : entering the room, I pulled off my slippers and sat downon the lloor before him. I shall here remark that it is a custom moststrictly adhered to never to sit down upon a carpet or even a mat, andin presence of a man of rank, not even upon the bare floor, without pull-ing off the slipi)ers; and if a person has but one pair on his feet, whichis the Moggrebyn and the Greek fashion, he must sit down bare-footed. After I had drunk a dish of coffee, I asked the aga what his plea-sure Avas; he answered me by making a sign with his thumb and fore-finger, like a person counting money. I had several chests for the Britishconsul at Aleppo with me, and h

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