He wore a magnificent belt fully two hands wide, in which were stuck three knives of formidable length and breadth, in finely chased silver sheaths.

His muscular legs were encased in leathern gaiters, ornamented with gold and silver, and on his feet he wore broad turned-up slippers from Constantinople.

The dress was much the same as that which the Turks had found there a few years earlier, and which they soon amalgamated with their own.

It set off the captain's vast breadth of shoulder and massive limbs, and as he stepped into his hired boat the idlers at the water-stairs gazed upon him with an admiration of which he was well aware, for besides being very splendidly dressed he looked as if he could have swept them all into the canal with a turn of his hand.
Without saying whither he was bound he directed the oarsman through the narrow channels until he reached the shallow lagoon.

The boatman asked whither he should go.
"To Murano," answered the Greek.