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taken by the Pirates of Tripoli ,and the Baffa finding that young 

 Lad well fliap'd, and looking like one that promised much , 

 tent him, as a Prefent, to the Grand Seignor. He was alio 

 pack'daway out of the Seraglio, after Fifteen Yeats Service, 

 only upon this (core, that there was fome difcovery made, of 

 his holding a fecret correfpondence with the difgrae'd Sicilian, 

 who had heretofore fliewn him much kindnefs, and indeed it 

 was by his credit that the Tarijian was firft ad varied to the 

 Chamber of the Treafury* 



From thofe two men, who were in a fair capacity to make 

 cxacT: Obfervations of things, have I extracted the better part 

 of this ^Relation. Though they had been forced to embrace 

 the erroneous perfwafion of JMakomet, yet were there fome 

 Relicks of the good fentiments of Chriftianity : And whereas 

 there was not the leaft hope of recovering the honours, where- 

 in they pride themlelves who are exalted to Charges in the 

 Seraglio, it is not to be imagined, that they could have any 

 deiign to diiguife things to me. They themlelves thought it 

 a certain pleafure to defcend to a greater familiarity of Dif- 

 courfe, and to fpecifie even the leaft circumftances : but I am 

 to difcover withal, that having had their education amongft 

 the T«rfa, and learnt of them, to love Mony, it muft have 

 been fo much the greater charge to me, to give them content, 

 I have kept them for a considerable fpace of time, at my own 

 charge, and that in feveral places, one at IJpahan in Verfia, and 

 the other in the Indies, where they had made their refidence#, 

 and the Memoires which they fupply'd me withal were per- 

 fectly concordant. 



To the Inftru&ions, which I made a fhift to get from thofe 

 two men, and to what difcoveries I may have made my (elf, 

 of the prefent (late of the Grand Seignor 's Palace, J (hall add 

 fome neceflary Obfervations of the Manners and Cuftomes of 

 feveral Provinces of the Ottoman Empire, (lightly paffing over 

 thofe things, which, in all probability, are generally known. 

 But that the Reader may with greater eafe comprehend the 

 matters I treat of, and that the Difcourfe may not be inter- 

 rupted, by the neceflary explication of the feveral names of 

 Charges and Dignities, I have thought it fit, in the firft place, 

 to give a fhort Lift of them, after which (hall follow another, 

 of the different Species of Mony, which are current all over 

 the Turkijh Empire. 



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