[275] Vakouf = money from the mosque property.
[276] Tekie = Dervish’s monastery.
[277] Baltagee = axe-bearers.
[278] Fipple = a stopper. “In recorders, which go with a gentle breath; the concave of the pipe, were it not for the fipple, that straiteneth the air much more than the simple concave, would yield no sound.” (Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 116.)
[279] Noze = nozzle.
[280] πλαγιαῦλος = Mod. Gr., a transverse flute.
[281] Still in use in the Greek islands.
[282] At Maidan = the horse-market.
[283] [Vide Introduction] for an account of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines.
[284] Deriv. Mesh, “a torch”.