DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4719#0511
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EEMAEKS FOR THE GUIDANCE OE TRAVELLERS. 483
among my travelling stores ; it is a substitute for nail, hook,
and hammer: inserted into the wall it forms a peg by which
my clothes are frequently kept from the dirty or damp floor,
or to which I can hang my glass, watch, or thermometer.
The traveller will of course be prepared with every requisite
for the tailor, and will take a few simple medicines.
Eor economy in travelling it is well to take only five or
six horses ; if this number be exceeded, another guide is re-
quired, and the pay to the ostlers is increased. The traveller
who wishes to pay liberally and be well attended by the post,
must calculate that Ryo horses will cost him, with these extra
payments, as much as seven; and this sum will cover all ex-
penses on the road to guides, ostlers, etc., amounting to seven
piastres per hour, or about four miles. On the ordinary lines
of road he may travel three hours in two, being six miles an
hour; this saves time, but the expense is the same. How-
ever proficient the European traveller may be in the Turkish
language, I should recommend his taking a servant who can
act as dragoman, as he will be thus enabled far better to
understand and fall into the manners and customs of the
people.
The most acceptable presents to the inhabitants are not
such as are of the greatest intrinsic value, but articles of use
which it is difficult for them to procure. The traveller will
do well to supply himself with copper caps for the people in
authority who have had percussion guns given to them, but
which are rendered useless from the want of these, and also
gunpowder for the peasantry: by all classes a sheet of
writing-paper is much valued; leads for patent pencil-cases
are very acceptable; and a common box-compass will furnish
much pleasure, occasionally directing the Mahometan to the
point for his prayers. I have been often asked in a delicate
manner by the Greeks if I possessed a picture of our Queen
or reigning sovereign; a common print of this kind would
be highly prized.
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EEMAEKS FOR THE GUIDANCE OE TRAVELLERS. 483
among my travelling stores ; it is a substitute for nail, hook,
and hammer: inserted into the wall it forms a peg by which
my clothes are frequently kept from the dirty or damp floor,
or to which I can hang my glass, watch, or thermometer.
The traveller will of course be prepared with every requisite
for the tailor, and will take a few simple medicines.
Eor economy in travelling it is well to take only five or
six horses ; if this number be exceeded, another guide is re-
quired, and the pay to the ostlers is increased. The traveller
who wishes to pay liberally and be well attended by the post,
must calculate that Ryo horses will cost him, with these extra
payments, as much as seven; and this sum will cover all ex-
penses on the road to guides, ostlers, etc., amounting to seven
piastres per hour, or about four miles. On the ordinary lines
of road he may travel three hours in two, being six miles an
hour; this saves time, but the expense is the same. How-
ever proficient the European traveller may be in the Turkish
language, I should recommend his taking a servant who can
act as dragoman, as he will be thus enabled far better to
understand and fall into the manners and customs of the
people.
The most acceptable presents to the inhabitants are not
such as are of the greatest intrinsic value, but articles of use
which it is difficult for them to procure. The traveller will
do well to supply himself with copper caps for the people in
authority who have had percussion guns given to them, but
which are rendered useless from the want of these, and also
gunpowder for the peasantry: by all classes a sheet of
writing-paper is much valued; leads for patent pencil-cases
are very acceptable; and a common box-compass will furnish
much pleasure, occasionally directing the Mahometan to the
point for his prayers. I have been often asked in a delicate
manner by the Greeks if I possessed a picture of our Queen
or reigning sovereign; a common print of this kind would
be highly prized.
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