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" and there were alfo fome cocks, peacocks, and other animals 



" needing the fame help, and kept altogether quietly enough, 



** in a great court : nor wanted there men and women, lodged 



*' in little rooms of the fame hofpital, who had care of them. 



*' In another place, far from hence, we faw another hofpital of 



" cows and calves, fome whereof had broken legs, others, more 



*' infirm, very old or lean, and therefore were kept here to be 



" cured. Among the beads there was alfo a Mahometan thief, 



" who, having been taken in theft, had both his hands cut off; 



*' but the companionate Gentiles, that he might not perifli 



" miferably, now he was no longer able to get his living, took 



** him into this place, and kept him among the poor beal\s, not 



** fuffering him to want any thing. Moreover, without one of 



" the gates of the city, we faw another great troop of cows, 



" calves, and goats, which being cured and brought into better 



*' plight^ or gathered together from being difperfed, and with- 



" out mailers, or being redeemed with money from the Mabome- 



" ta?is^ who would have killed them to eat, (namely, the goats 



" and other animals, but not the cows and calves) were fent 



" into the field to feed by neat-herds, purpofely maintained 



*' at the public charge ; and thus they are kept, till, being re- 



" duced to perfect health, 'tis found fitting, to give them to 



** fome citizens or others, who may charitably keep them. I 



*' excepted cows and calves from the animals redeemed from. 



*' flaughter ; becaufe in Cambaia^ cows, calves, and oxen are 



" not killed by any ; and there is a great prohibition againft it^ 



*' by the inftance of the Gentiles, who upon this account pay 



" a great fum of money to the prince ; and iliould any, either 



S " MabQjnetan 



