FRANK DRESS. 155 the long and loose Turkish dress. This, or the Frank costume, one may wear as he pleases in Egypt ; but not so in Turkey.

There the Frank must Avear the Frank dress, and the Turk that prescribed for his station. The rayah may certainly wear Frank clothes, but not without the tarbush. on which, in sign of being a subject, the Turkish crescent, cut out of cloth, is sewed.

CHAP. IX.

Circassians and Georp;ians.— Dress of the Sheiks.— Turkish Etiquette. — Arab Officers and Soldiers. — An Arab Regiment. — Black Soldiery.

At our last interview Avith the Pascha, he, who still with deep affection remembers his native country, Circassia, asked us if we knew anything new of the war between it and Russia ; and listened again with much pleasure to our often-told tale. In Constantinople one must be on his guard how he talks of Russia's successes over the Turks ; the people in general believe that the Russians have constantly been beaten — and, from the medals Avhich the Emperor of Russia, to make himself popular, has presented to all the Turkish soldiers engaged in the campaigns, they are led to believe that the Sultan had forced the conquered Emperor to give them those medals. As little as by the Turks, are the Russians loved in Egypt, for here there are many Circassians, whose fury and hatred against them is more and more inflamed by Russia's unceasing attempts to subdue their native land. These, as a matter of course, relate the great deeds of their countrymen, by whose bravery all Russia's attacks are rendered vain, and never, they assert and believe, will she succeed in winning Circassia. However little the Circassians here may have otherwise to brag of, nay, although they are capable of all kinds of mean and vicious acts, still all possess strong love for, and tlie warmest interest in, their native country, and their countrymen (achuan) ; and this is the more to be admired, as they all have been, when in tenderest age, brought as slaves into Egypt and Turkey. Now-, too, hardly any of them have much remembrance of their country, and few