The Innocents Abroad


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When you wish to buy a pair of shoes you have the swing of the whole  
street--you do not have to walk yourself down hunting stores in different  
localities. It is the same with silks, antiquities, shawls, etc. The  
place is crowded with people all the time, and as the gay-colored Eastern  
fabrics are lavishly displayed before every shop, the great Bazaar of  
Stamboul is one of the sights that are worth seeing. It is full of life,  
and stir, and business, dirt, beggars, asses, yelling peddlers, porters,  
dervishes, high-born Turkish female shoppers, Greeks, and weird-looking  
and weirdly dressed Mohammedans from the mountains and the far  
provinces  
--and the only solitary thing one does not smell when he is in the Great  
Bazaar, is something which smells good.  
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