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All the taxicabs of Istanbul are driven by escaped maniacs whom the / Turkish police inexplicably leave at large. The cab in which Coghlan / drove toward the Hotel Petra was driven by a man with very dark skin / and very white teeth and a conviction that the fate of every Pedestrian / was determined by Allah and he did not have to worry about them. His / cab was equipped with an unusually full-throated horn, and fortunately / he seemed to love the sound of it. So Coghlan rode madly through narrow / streets in which foot-passengers seemed constantly to be recoiling in / horror from the cab-horn, and thereby escaping annihilation by the cab.
The cab passed howling through preposterously narrow lanes. It turned / corners on two wheels with less than inches to spare. It rushed roaring / upon knots of people who dissolved with incredible agility before its / approach, and it plunged into alleys like tunnels, and it emerged into / the wider streets of the more modern part of town with pungent Turkish / curses hanging upon it like garlands.