What use, think ye, did I make of my freedom ?' 'Nay, you are capable of anything,' said I.
'I set off forthwith to their chief mosque--that of St.Sophia.When the doors opened and the muezzin called, I was ever the first to hurry into devotions and the last to leave them.

Did I see a Mussulman strike his head upon the pavement, I would strike mine twice.

Did I see him bend and bow, I was ready to prostrate myself.

In this way ere long the piety of the converted Giaour became the talk of the city, and I was provided with a hut in which to make my sacred meditations.

Here I might have done well, and indeed I had well-nigh made up my mind to set up as a prophet and write an extra chapter to the Koran, when some foolish trifle made the faithful suspicious of my honesty.