But the bazaars and baths are the lounges and gossiping places of the Turkish women.

Under the pretence of bathing or of wishing to purchase something, they walk about here for half a day together, amusing themselves with small-talk, love- affairs, and with looking at the wares.
THE MOSQUES.
Without spending a great deal of money, it is very difficult to obtain admittance into the mosques.

You are compelled to take out a firmann, which costs from 1000 to 1200 piastres.

A guide of an enterprising spirit is frequently sufficiently acute to inquire in the different hotels if there are any guests who wish to visit the mosques.

Each person who is desirous of doing so gives four or five colonati {54} to the guide, who thereupon procures the firmann, and frequently clears forty or fifty guilders by the transaction.