"Bakshish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... agent in Egypt had arranged the details in consultation with Derch, but none would fit. Derch thought that all the Cretan chiefs could be bought, and the Egyptian pasha began by distributing 16,000 amongst the churches, mosques, and schools, without forgetting handsome baksheesh to the leading chiefs, who accepted the money, but promised nothing, and made no responsive move. Ismael, meanwhile, was doing his best to provoke hostilities, and finally succeeded in getting up a collision between Cretan Christians and Mussulmans at Candanos, in the southwestern ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman |
