Sentence:  Magdala not a soul was visible. But the ring of the horses' hoofs roused the stupid population, and they all came trooping out—old men and old women, boys and girls, the blind, the crazy, and the crippled, all in ragged, soiled and scanty raiment, and all abject beggars by nature, instinct and education. ... [O]ut of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! bucksheesh! bucksheesh!" I never was in a storm like that before. As we paid the <WSD>bucksheesh</WSD> out to sore-eyed children and brown, buxom girls with repulsively tattooed lips and chins, we filed through the town ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.