Excerpt from Journal of a Tour in the Levant, Vol. 2 of 3 Turkish passengers paid from forty to fifty piastres for their passage to Cyprus: we contracted for ours at 180 piastres, with the condition that Tussein should feed us, an agreement by which he took care not to lose, as he gave us all the way nothing but dry beans boiled, and weak pilaff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.