Journal 40, page 03

Next a perfume shop is scouted out by us all simeltaneously & we sniff critically-buy some gilt covered pastiles of the harem just because of their name;-cheapen sandal wood beads, otto of rose, examine musk-rat tails & finally, penetrating further into the shop come upon-tablecloths! Kate is now in her element & I arrange myself stoically to "sit it out."

In their comet-flight the twain swing back to the shoe bazar & make prices with the handsome young Turk who refused their estimates the other day. He raises his hands & emits a long low whistle like a thorough bred Yankee. Our self constituted guide number two (we have three since the last writing (says, as he sips his cup of coffee brought to him from a neighboring cafe -"He says not a penny less-& he's a Turk, Mademoiselle-not an Armenian!" I thought some inferences on national character were here involved, but Katharine holds out firm-cries "40" while the Turkish merchant calls "45" & finally he cries "all right" with the air of a ruined man, & the long agony is over.

Too my delight Kate invests in some bracelets & necklaces of oriental woods-aloes & sandal & I wear one home to the hotel which diffuses an agreeable perfume around me. If I had money, these bazars would make decided impression upon my purse-their wares are so new, so rare, so Eastern. But it is very disagreeable to have a merchant say: "What will you give?" when you ask his price, & when one calls for "table-cloths" to have the same one appear in a dozen different bazars, a runner hastening after anything for which you may ask, & borrowing it of another dealer if not in his line of business-so that, as for example today, one buys to be rid of seeing forever the same thing.

April 27, 1870

Excursion around the Walls with Dr. Long.

Dr. L's rule: Never offer in the bazars more than 1/3 of what they charge.

"Far Away Moses" favorite guide of Americans & so christened by Quaker City party.

The cosmetic of the Turkish women is corrosive sublimate pounded up with mastic & coated over the face.

Dr. L. saw yesterday in the market a Turkish lady, well dressed, fine silk cloak on, who was trying on a shoe over her bare foot with the help of the merchant, & whose leg was in full view up to the knee but whose face was of course sedulously covered. (The women never sit down with the men to eat but wait upon them as servants.) "If a man in the East has [?] anything pretty he puts an ugly wall around it."-the principle of exclusiveness is the rule here.

-Jews terribly abused here [?], Dr. L. saw a stout young Greek vigorously pounding a blind old Jew, for no reason but because he was one saying "I'll teach you who Jesus Christ is & the Holy