Many dwellings have towers attached, and the roofs are flat, forming numerous terraces, which are all built of stone.

Some streets in the lower part of the town, inhabited chiefly by Jews, are bordered with cannon-balls, and present a most peculiar appearance.
I was also much struck with the costumes worn by the country-people, who were dressed quite in the Swabian fashion.

It was in vain that I inquired the reason of this circumstance.

The books we had with us gave no information on the subject, and I could not ask the natives through my ignorance of their language.
By three o'clock in the afternoon we were once more on board, and an hour afterwards we sailed out into the open sea.

To-day we saw nothing further, except a high and lengthened mountain-range on the Asiatic mainland.