null jh Tthen 

 they fit doTPV^ 

 &c. 



2p§ Phyfical and MifceUaneous 



iiitisfied, than he rifes up and wailies himfelf, without paying 

 the leaft Regard to the Company; whilft another, that very 

 Moment, takes his Place; the Servant fometimes (for there 

 faftn Bif- is no Diftinftion of Tables) fucceeding his Maiter. When they 

 fit down to thefe Meals or eat and drink at any other Time ; 

 and indeed when they enter upon their daily Employ, or un- 

 dertake any Bufmefs whatfoever, they always pronounce, with 

 the greateft Serioufnefs and Reverence, the Word Bijmillahy 

 {i.\)\^^> i.e. in the Name of God:) \ήνα2^ Alhamdillah (^^•>ο4.=ε-Α 

 i.e. God he fraifed,) after Nature is fatisfied, and their Affairs 

 are attended with Succefs. 

 Th^ rimes of Ύ liQ Tiirks ^nd MooTS are early Rifers, conftantly attending 

 ,>:,, among'the the publick Dcvotious at Break of Day. Each Perfon employs 

 Turk's' "" himfelf afterwards in the Exercife of his proper Trade and 

 Occupation 'till ten in the Morning, the ufual Time of dining ; 

 returning again to his Bufmefs 'till {y4fa) the Afternoon Prayers, 

 at which Time, all Kind of Work ceafeth, and their Shops are 

 ihut up. The Supper commonly follows the Prayers of 

 (Magreb) Sun fet, and then repeating the fame at the fetting 

 of the Watch , when It begins to be dark , they go to Bed 

 immediately after. Some of the graver People, who have no 

 TheDiverf- conftaut Employ, fpend the Day, either in converhng with 

 Z>d{f,!!''^ ^^^ another at the Haf-effs ', in the Bazar, or at the CoiFee- 

 Houfe : whilil a great Number of the Turk'ipj and Moo^yh 

 Youths, with no fmall Part of the unmarried Soldiers, attend 

 their Concubines, with Wine and Mufick, into the Fields; or 

 elie make themfelves merry at one of the publick Taverns *, 

 a Praftife indeed exprefsly prohibited by their Religion, but 

 what the NeceiTity of the Times, and the uncontroulable Pai^ 

 lions of the Tranfgreflburs oblige thefe Governments to dif- 

 pence with. 

 The I •ft of ^^^ ^rah follows no regular Trade or Employment. His 

 tht Arab. Life ig oj;ie continued Round of Idlenefs or Diverilons. When 

 no Paftime calls him abroad, he doth nothing all the Day, but 

 loyter at Home, fmoke his Pipe \ andrepofe himfelf under fome 



I The holding Convcrfations at the Haf-effs \. e. the Barber's Shop, fecms to be of great 

 Antiquity ; tor Tbeopbraflus (as we read in Plutarch. Sympof. L. j. Q. y J calJs them aoiva <ημ•!τΙ«Μ 

 Banquets wnhomWine. ^.Thhthz Arabs ζά\\1^\.6^ο Jl (_'>λΧ. Shrob el Douhhan] drinking of Smoke 

 i. c. Tobacco, the /irabick^ and our Name being the fame according to what Hernandez re- 

 lateth. P/.inf4»;(jH4J« Mexicenfes Pycielt/f«yelt V5f4«f, λ^ Haitinis <i/>;)i//4ittr Tob.icus, a 

 qu'ibus tion ad Indus folum fed ad Hifpanos id dcflux'tt nomen, eo quod SufFumigiis admifceretur , 

 qua Tobacos ttiam nuncupate confueverunt, a BraiilianisPetiim, λ^- ali'ts Herba Sacra, a nonnullis 

 Nicotiana dicitur. Hift. Mexican 1. y cap, ji. 



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