Excerpt from Turkish Life and Character, Vol. 2 I clench my teeth; so go I would, were a cofin at the end of the journey. Gadsting and I, being both old travellers, knowing the country was wild, were not going, not we, to burden ourselves with luxuries. Into two Syrian saddle-bags of Russian leather we crammed our nine-ails, a guide-book, some linen, and some brandy. We were still debating, next morning (gadsting never did anything else but debate and brag), when the porter of the hotel knocked at the door, and said, in Turkish, it was time to start. 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.