a few strong young men wore chains and fetters
more or less heavy, and Foster judged from this circumstance, as well as
their expressions, that these were rebellious subjects whom it was
difficult to tame.

Much to his surprise, the youth found that he was not called on to join
his comrades in misfortune, but was left behind in solitude. While
casting about in his mind as to what this could mean, he observed in a
corner the two rolls of black bread which he had received the previous
night, and which, not being hungry at the time, he had neglected. As a
healthy appetite was by that time obtruding itself on his attention, he
took hold of one and began to eat. It was not attractive, but, not
being particular, he consumed it. He even took up the other and ate
that also, after which he sighed and wished for more! As there was no
more to be had, he went to the fountain in the court and washed his
breakfast down with water.

About two hours later the door was again opened, and a man in the
uniform of a janissary entered. Fixing a keen glance on the young
captive, he bade him in broken English rise and follow.

By this time the lesson of submission had been sufficiently impressed on
our hero to induce him to accord prompt obedience. He followed his
guide into the street, where he walked along until they arrived at a
square, on one side of which stood a large mosque. Here marketing was
being carried on to a considerable extent, and, as he threaded his way
through the various groups, he could not help being impressed with the
extreme simplicity of the mode of procedure, for it seemed to him that
all a man wanted to enable him to set himself up in trade was a few
articles of any kind--old or new, it did not matter which--with a day's
lease of about four feet square of the market pavement. There the
retail trader squatted, smoked his pipe, and calmly awaited the decrees
of Fate!

One of these small traders he noted particularly while his conductor
stopped to converse with a friend. He was an old man, evidently a
descendant of Ishmael, and clothed in what seemed to be a ragged
cast-off suit that had belonged to Abraham or Isaac. He carried his
shop on his arm in the shape of a basket, out of which he took a little
bit of carpet, and spread it close to where they stood. On this he sat
down and slowly extracted from his basket, and spread on the ground
before him, a couple of old locks, several knives, an old brass
c