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The Bey of Metelin has two Gallics. • • •' ■ • • 



The Bey Cavale, afmall Bay, twelve Miles on this fide the Dardanells, upon the 

 Coaft of Europe, has one. 



The Bey of Neflrcpont , feven. 



The £7 of Napoli in Romania, five. 



The ^ of CtoWj one. 



The Bey of Modon, one. 



The Itey of Famagofla, fix. 



The £ty of Alexandria in £j)^f j five- < ; 



The £ey of Cane'e, two Gallics. 



The Bey of Candia, one. 



The £cy of Caftel-Tournez.e or Navarin, two Gallies. 



AH thefe Gallies make up the number of Fourfcore/ 



The light Gallies carry not above 196 men^ the four men that are wanting of 

 two hundred, being the Bey's profit. 



Every Captain is allow'd thirteen thoufand Piafters for his Provifion •, and every 

 Chriftmas he gives to every Slave a pair of Breeches, and aCafTockof courfe Cloth, 

 with a icantic kind of a Cloak. 



Every Slave has every day a pound and a half of good Bread, and nothing elfe. 

 But upon Friday, which is the Mahumetans Snnday, they have hot Peafe, or Beans, 

 or Lentils boyl'd in Butter. They receive alio ibmetimes the. Alms of the Greeks, 

 when they lie in any Port. But at Conftantinople they fare fomewhat better •, for 

 twice a week, as well the Turks, as the Greeks and others , come to the Bains, and 

 beftow their Charity of Rice and other good Victuals. The Bains is the name of 

 the place where the Sea-men are kept when they are not at Sea. 



Sometimes when they are to go to Sea, they will counterfeit themfelves fick or 

 lame \ but they are fo narrowly obferv'd, that it ferves them to no other purpofe than 

 to procure to tnemfelves the more Blows. 



CHAP. IX. 



1 



A Relation of the prefent State of Georgia. 



EORGIA, which others call Gurgie, or Gurgijian, extends Eaftward 

 to the Cajpian 'Sea; and upon the Weft is bounded by Mountains that, 

 part it fronj Mengreiia. Formerly it was a Kingdom, all the Inhabi- 

 tants whereof were Chriftians , of the Armenian , and of the Greeks 

 Church •, but of late the Mahometans have got footing among t:hem. And the 

 King of Perfa having fill'd them full of Divifions , has made two Kingdoms of it, 

 which he calls Provinces ', over which he has plac'd two Governors. They are ge- 

 nerally Princes of the Countrcy, whomuft turn Mahometan* before they can be ad- 

 mitted to that Dignity. When they are advane'd , they take upon them the title 

 of Kings \ and while they have any IfTue, the King of Perfia cannot difpofTcfs their 

 Children. 



The mod Potent of thefe two Kings, is he thatrefidesat Teflis, who in the Lan- 

 guage of the Country is calPd the King of Carlcle. The prefent King is the laft 

 that has continu'd a Chriftian, with his four Sons •, thcEldcftof which, the King 

 of Tcrfla having entie'd to Court, partly by Promiies, and partly by Pre fen ts, has 

 won to Mahumetifm. Immediately thereupon , he caus'd him to be declared 

 King of the other Province. 



Thci'e two Kings have each of them a Guard of Mahitmetan-Hovfemcn under 

 their own pay •, and at prefent I believe there arc in both Kingdoms near upon 

 fi 000 Mahumetan Families. 



The King of Teflis coyns Mony in the King of Per/la's Name ; and the Silver 

 which he coyns, is in Spanifo Reals , French Crowns, and fuch other Money, 

 which the Armenians bring out of Europe for their Goods. As to the Juftice of the 

 Countreyj neither the King himfelf , nor the Mahometans have any thing to do 



Qjz , With 



