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Updated: June 4, 2025
In the first place, I could get you hung for a little transaction, of which you know." The boatman started, and looked round with a suspicious glance. "Que diavolo, who can this be?" he muttered. "In the second, remember the English do not detain a man on bare suspicions, and but shabbily reward an informer. On the other hand, twenty colonati are yours, if you do my bidding.
I had the good fortune to obtain admittance on paying a very trifling sum; I think I should regret it to this day if I had paid five colonati for such a purpose. To an architect these mosques are no doubt highly interesting; to a profane person like myself they offer little attraction. Their principal beauty generally consists in the bold arches of the cupolas.
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 to the guide, who thereupon procures the firmann, and frequently clears forty or fifty guilders by the transaction.
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