capugi's

Updated: May 20, 2025

In the Turkish dominions, it must be understood, a Capugi Bashi seldom comes into the provinces unless for some affair of strangling, beheading, confiscation, or imprisonment, and his presence is the more dreaded, as it is never known on whose head the blow will fall. In this case, fortunately, the Capugi's visit had no sinister motive.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century