This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...he replied that Allah had been his only relative, and chance his only instructor. Ever since the day he had shown me the way to Usta Hassan's house, he had been my indefatigable guide and servant; and as I divined that his anxiety about breakfast was not altogether disinterested, I gladly fell into his views. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...he replied that Allah had been his only relative, and chance his only instructor. Ever since the day he had shown me the way to Usta Hassan's house, he had been my indefatigable guide and servant; and as I divined that his anxiety about breakfast was not altogether disinterested, I gladly fell into his views. We accordingly stopped at the best Turkish kavana that Belgrade can boast of, to fortify ourselves, preparatory to our attack upon the fortress. The honour of the invention of coffee-houses is due to the Orientals; hut, satisfied with the invention, they left the perfecting of these establishments to the more civilized nations who speedily adopted them. The worshipers of conservatism have no more idea of the uses and advantages of a coffee-house, for the purpose of business, political discussion, or recreation, than those Arabians who first formed the idea of disposing of their coffee for money in their tents. The Servians have made a step ia advance, having set up in Belgrade a citalistje, or reading-room, in connexion with the coffee-house, where the principal French, German, and Slaavish newspapers are taken in; indeed, the Servians exhibit considerable zeal for reform and progress. The " best Turkish coffee-house" in Belgrade, as it was called, differed from the numerous other establishments of the kind merely in its occupying the first floor of a corner house, to which we had to ascend by a rickety flight of stairs, besmeared and bedaubed with a coating of mud, which had for years remained undisturbed. The coffee-room, was spacious, --that is, very long and wide, --but so low that a man of more than the ordinary height could not by any possibility have stood upright in it. Mindeluks, or sofas, about eighteen inches high from the ground, ...
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