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fatisfied, than he rifes up and wallies himfelf, without paying 

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

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

 fayhg Bif- is no Diftinaion of Tables) fucceeding his Mafter. When they 

 ''^^fiiZwn, 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 Bifmlllah, 

 (jkUl^^i i. e. in the Name of God:) ufing AlhamdiUah {^^"^ ^'♦^'^ 

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

 are attended with Succefs. 

 The Times of The TuT^s and Moors are early Rifers, conftantly attending 

 7igiZ»gth'e the publick Devotions at Break of Day. Each Perfon employs 

 TuX '"' 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 (y^Ja) the Afternoon Prayers, 

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

 fhut up. The Supper commonly follows the Prayers of 

 (Magreh) 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 

 TheDiverfi- couftaut Euiploy, fpcud the Day, either in converling with 

 ons vf the old Q^^Q another at the Haf -eft's ' in the Bazar, or at the Coffee- 



mid young' j jj ■> 



Houfe : whilft a great Number of the Turkijh and Moorijh 

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

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

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

 a Praftife indeed exprefsly prohibited by their Religion, but 

 what the Neceffity of the Times, and the uncontroulable Paf- 

 fions of the Tranfgreflburs oblige thefe Governments to dif- 

 pence with. 

 The L-fe of ^^^ ^vah follows no regular Trade or Employment. His 

 thehxih. Life is one continued Round of Idlenefs or Diverfions. 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 Converfations at the Haf-efs i. e. the Barber's Shop, feems to be of great 

 Antiquity ; for Theophrajlus (as we read in Plutarch. Sympof. L. y. Q. j.J calls them aona sun'niwt 

 Banquets wtthoutWine. 2Thhthe Arabs cal\[^^ji6>.o J\ c,'»*i, Shrob el Douhhan] drirtkjng of Smoke 

 i. e. Tobacco , the yirabicl^ and our Name being the fame according to what Hernandez, re- 

 lateth. PLtntam quam MexlccnksPYcieh feu Yek vacant, ab Hzitinh appellatur Tobacas, a 

 quibiis non ad Indos folum fed ad Hifpanos id deHuxit nomen, eo quod SuflFumigiis admlfceretur, 

 qun, Tobacos etiam nuncupare confueverunt, a Biafilianis Petum, ab aliis Herba Sacra, a nonuulln 

 Nicotiana dk'ttur. Hift. Mexican. 1. j. cap. ji. 



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