text: " But we must again diverge in following Mr White's desultory steps from the Turkish fair ones--whom he has so satisfactorily cleared from Lord Byron's imputation that "They cannot read and so don't lisp in criticism; Nor write and so they don't affect the muse--" to his dissertation on the _wakoofs_ above referred to;--a word implying a deposit or mortgage and used to designate a species of tenure under which the greater part of the landed property throughout the empire is held and the nature of which is but imperfectly understood in Europe