"Keep farther away! don't come near me, and mind you don't touch me!" anxiously exclaims another.

And then the superintendents keep shouting--"Stand back, stand back!" etc.
I was highly entertained by this spectacle; the scene was entirely new to me.

But on my return, when I shall be one of the prisoners, I fear I may find it rather tedious.

For this time I was not at all hindered in the prosecution of my journey.
On the whole, these timid precautions seemed to me exceedingly uncalled for, particularly at a time when neither the plague nor any kind of contagious disease prevailed in Turkey.

One of my fellow- passengers had been banished to our ship on the previous day because he had had the misfortune to brush against an official on going to see after his luggage.
At seven o'clock the tattoo is beaten, the grating is shut, and the farce ends.