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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...means, to confer injuries through the agency of others. This being the general system observed one towardianother, a foreigner, perhaps, has no great reason to complain when it is directed against himself: still, when one falls among rogues, however ancient may be their prescriptive right of robbing, it is not an easy thing for an honest man to avoid murmuring, particularly when the work of plunder is attended with the lowest and most conternptible acts of meanness. The arrival of a Christian, and an Englishman in particular, is the commencement of a general attack upon him; and, inorder to rob him genteelly, some paltry present is generally given, in return for which it is necessary to give one of ten times the value. The customary presents to bashaws, governors, &c. are tea and sugar and broad cloth, which it is usual to give covered up in a new silk handkerchief, which of course is quickly pocketed. Whenever any thing is to be asked for, however trifling it may be, it can only be obtained by an additional present. But when any object of importance is to be attained, it requires an able diplomatist well acquainted with the character of the people to know not so much how it is to be effected, but the exact time when the present or bribe necessary to accomplish it should be offered; for the natural insincerity and want of probity is such, that if it is given previously, it is, in nine cases out of ten, thrown away, and a fresh one is necessary before you can effect your wish; while, on their side, their mistrust is such, that they will seldom commence the execution of it without receiving the present beforehand. No one who looks at a Moor can do so without paying for it in some shape or other; but the stranger who is ambitious to be...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...means, to confer injuries through the agency of others. This being the general system observed one towardianother, a foreigner, perhaps, has no great reason to complain when it is directed against himself: still, when one falls among rogues, however ancient may be their prescriptive right of robbing, it is not an easy thing for an honest man to avoid murmuring, particularly when the work of plunder is attended with the lowest and most conternptible acts of meanness. The arrival of a Christian, and an Englishman in particular, is the commencement of a general attack upon him; and, inorder to rob him genteelly, some paltry present is generally given, in return for which it is necessary to give one of ten times the value. The customary presents to bashaws, governors, &c. are tea and sugar and broad cloth, which it is usual to give covered up in a new silk handkerchief, which of course is quickly pocketed. Whenever any thing is to be asked for, however trifling it may be, it can only be obtained by an additional present. But when any object of importance is to be attained, it requires an able diplomatist well acquainted with the character of the people to know not so much how it is to be effected, but the exact time when the present or bribe necessary to accomplish it should be offered; for the natural insincerity and want of probity is such, that if it is given previously, it is, in nine cases out of ten, thrown away, and a fresh one is necessary before you can effect your wish; while, on their side, their mistrust is such, that they will seldom commence the execution of it without receiving the present beforehand. No one who looks at a Moor can do so without paying for it in some shape or other; but the stranger who is ambitious to be...
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