It is made from the juice of fruits, mixed with that of lemons and pomegranates.

In Pera ice is only to be had in the coffee-houses of the Franks, or of Christian confectioners.

All coffee-house keepers are obliged to buy their coffee ready burnt and ground from the government, the monopoly of this article being an imperial privilege.

A building has been expressly constructed for its preparation, where the coffee is ground to powder by machinery.
The coffee is made very strong, and poured out without being strained, a custom which I could not bring myself to like.
It is well worth the traveller's while to make an EXCURSION TO EJUB, the greatest suburb of Constantinople, and also the place where the richest and most noble of the Turks are buried.
Ejub, the standard-bearer of Mahomet, rests here in a magnificent mosque, built entirely of white marble.

None but a Mussulman may tread this hallowed shrine.