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Tue fons, as foon as they are of an age to gain a livelihood, 
are turned out of the family, fometimes with a {mall prefent or 
portion, but more frequently without any thing to fupport them, 
and thus reduced, they either endeavour to live by their labour, 
or, which is more ufual, go on board fome trading veffel as failors 
or as fervants, remaining abroad till they have got together fome 
competency, and then return home to marry and to be henpecked. 
Some few there are who, taking advantage of the Turkith law *, 
break through this whimfical cuftom, who marry their Calogrias, 
and retain to themfelves a competent provifion; but thefe are 
accounted men of a fingular and even criminal difpofition, and 
are hated and defpifed as conformifts to Turkifh manners, and 
deferters of their native cuftoms; fo that we may fuppofe they 
are few indeed who have the boldnefs to depart from the man- 
ners of their country, to adopt the cuftoms of their detefted 
mafters, and to brave the contempt, the derifion, and the hatred 
of their neighbours and fellow-citizens. 
Or all thefe extraordinary particulars I was informed by the 
French conful, a man of fenfe and of indifputable veracity, who 
had refided in this ifland for feveral years, and who folemnly 
affured me that every circumftance was true; but indeed our own 
obfervation 
* It may be afked, how it happens that the Turks do not exert their fovereign 
and abfolute power entirely to abolifh a cuftom fo contradiétory to the fpirit and 
practice of their laws? But this is eafily anfwered—In all their conquefts the 
Turks, either through mercy or through indolence, have left the natives in pofleflion 
of their -own cuftoms, contenting themfelves with their court of final appeal, and 
with a fort of cenforial power, which they exercife with much harfhnefs, to their 
ewn great emolument, and to the oppreffion of their fubjeéts by arbitrary fines. 
