PLATE XX.
A S A K A
O R TU R K ISH WATER CA RRIER.
I * i i a s in g e r thing, that the business of a water carrier should afford
a dress so ornamented: buUt is, in fact, much less expensive than
the furs and robes ftf the superior ranks, Almost all the common
people,, (for the dress of the Turks is distinctive.) have a short
jacket, ornamented with g o ld or silk twist, trowsers of doth,
w % h reach and fit close to the middle of the leg, which is in other
respects quite hat®. They wear red slippers, and have a broad belt
round their bodies. Water is constantly carried about the streets
both of Pera and Constantinople, and the SakSs carry it in leathern
buckets.
