St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-09-29
"A Week in the Troad.
Bf &. A. SAVAGE.
Con fnUrd from last reek.l I

| "'P' W uidN water OUT OF Il
deep we'll by means of an improvised
bucket and rope.
About sunset we came to the littI.
Turkish hamlet called Franli. Our ex-
perIenceS here at Franli form a uniuue
chapter IN my history, cannot do ius-
tlce To il now, but if | had had pcu and
paper on the spot, could have written
y"u an amusing chapter on oriental hos
pitallty. The people were Thoroughly
rustic, not having been contaminated
10y contact with cities and the world,
and hence We're thoroughly polite. |
believe 1t to be il mistake that true DO
likeness is Il child of cities and courts
For genuine, true-hearted civility. give
me the unsophisticated rustic. 1t was
Friday, and of course Il day of rest
with the MoSlcmS, So Franli seemed TO
us il village of loatcrS, as the whole
p"pulace were lounging about the court
yard of the mosque. OF course all ewes
were directed towards the company of
Franks that came riding into the vii
lage. and It's we diSmouutcd in font of
the moSque.we were greeted on all sides
with HoSh geitiehi-, , HOsh gelden We
all knew enough of Turkish to under
stand their welcome (untran>latabIc)
and to reply, Iroldt Hosh BuIduke ,
As to to the rest our mouths were sealed
and We could only talk through our
m"nthpiece, Ferguson.
They We're Il picturesque set of fel-
lows. gathered around the rude little
mosque, and wish Nou could have
seen them. Some were old and grave
and venerable, with long white boards.
long cl"aks, and long chih"ques 9th
er> were Young and muscular. FnI Il
while they scanned lis pretty closely
but all treated us very politely however.
They directed Jones where to put up
his hnls,>, and showed Us where We
were To hc entertained. 1t WAS Il little
room attached To the mosque and he
longed to nohody, it being the public
guest room of the village We had
heard that the bread of the Village WAS
unpalatahlc for Il foreigner, and 81 dis
patched Il man to Il nci.hhoring village
" here there waS an oven, Tor some
| loaNrs. In the meantime We heard the.
head man" of the village give orders
| for our dinner.
Our room was Il small. low posted
apaI tmcnt. with Il fireplace on one side
and Il small sheet iron stove III the cen
tire. There was Il window with oiled
paper Instead of glass. except near the
bottom. where there was IL scrap of
window glass to see ont Of The furni-
tuIc of the room consisted of mats.
After We had strollrd around the village
IA while it hecame dark, and we went
To oul room for the night. On entering
We found il full of Turks. 1t surprised
us IL little at first but as they were qui-
ttlN seated ON their heels around th.
room. we concluded they had come to
prolnng their welcome. SO we quietly
took our places around the sides of the
room, and lis We had II guests. the little
apartment was about as full Us it conld
hold. You must know that for il floor
We had nothing but mother earth. but
/ there were mats enough to 20 around
| the sides. After our Moslcm guests had
iemurcly sat for ii little while. Il man
came in bringing the table with the
dinner.
Let no magnificent visions of an clc
CANT extension din ing table, snowy
cloth and palate tickling table Fhotc,
float before You as | speak of the table
aud dinner. The table WAS Il round
wooden stool. about two feet in diane
ter. and standing perhaps six inches
tables would he the most inconvenIcnt
things in the world for IL sombre Turk,
sitting cross-lcgged on his heels The
first course was chorbd (s"mp.) 1t WAS
brought on in IL large bowl and placed
in the centre of the table. Pieces of
barley bread were then broken off and
with wooden spoons. We did not fall to
at once waiting instead for some of them
to commence but their repeated invita-
ton. BOu(yOu)roun BOu(you)rOun !
soon convinced us that the feast was
gotten up for our special benefit, and
we began to dip ont the soup with our
wooden ladies'. Some two or three of
the Turks joined us in the ceremony.
| will not venture to say of what the
soup was manufactured. | am positive
that it was IL substance unknown to the
chemistry of American kitchens. 1t
was not good. | will not say that it was
specially bad; but after one spoonful
| IIcz became suddenly interested in ar
ranging the apparatus for making tea !;
after two, Ferguson found it impera-
lively necessary to assist him. Trivier
and | were hungry, and having no tea
to fix, we bethought ourselves that it
would he hardly polite to treat the
bounty of our hosts with disrespcct
and 50 we perSevered. Several minutes
elapsed, and the infrequent journeys of
our ladies to the common soup bowl
| had removed not more than half of its
contents, when it was removed and the
second course brought on. OF what 1t
consisted will not pretend to state ;
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