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ty and nine beads, upon each of which, the Turkj repeat certain words taken out of 

 fome fentenccs of the Alcoran. That Chapelet is divided into three parts, from thirty 

 three, to thirty three beads, by a little firing, which feparates them : and at the end, 

 there hang'd a long piece of Corral, next to which there was another round bead, of 

 the fame material, of an extraordinary bignefs. 



The more Puritanical fort of turfy have their Beads in their hands when they arc 

 upon vifits, and efpecially when they approach great Perfons, and that very thing made 

 the rirft difcovery of the Hoggias theft, and breach of truft. One day, coming into the 

 Seraglio with his Coral-beads in his hand, the Grand Seignor, before whom he pre- 

 fented himfelf, calling his eyes upon them,and prefently imagining, that it might well 

 be the Pilgrim's Tefbuch, according to the defcription he had given of it in the Cata- 

 logue of what things were left in the little bag, told the Doctor, that he had a great 

 rarity there. The other immediately approaches him, and intreats his Highnefs with 

 all fubmiilion to accept of it. The Grand Seignor takes it, and making fomc difcove- 

 rics how acceptable that Prcfent was to him, does, by that prudent diffimolation, caufe 

 a joy in him, whofe chaftifement he was then contriving. 



But that fingle indicium the Grand Seignor does not think enough, but he will have 

 other difcoveries > and knowing that among other things that were in the bag, there 

 was a Ring, the work of an excellent and an ancient Maffer, famous for that fort of 

 Rings, which the ftlrfy wear on the Thumb, when they (hoot with the Long-bowe, he 

 expects a fecond occafion, in order to a fuller difcovery of the Cheat, and the more ab- 

 folutc conviction of the Doctor. 



'Twas not many dayes ere that happen'd, by the contrivance of the Emperour him- 

 felf, who calling for one of his Pages, one well skill'd in Archery, went to the place of 

 the Girit, where he alfo call'd for a Bowe,there being not any perfonin the whole Em- 

 pire but was inferiour to him, as to ftrength and dexterity in the Exercifes of the Bowe 

 and the Dart. When he came to bend the Bowe, he complain'd that the Ring hurt 

 his Thumb, preferring that the Doctor, who flood near him, and had already p'reflnted 

 him with the Coral-Beads, would alfo make him a proffer of the Ring, which he had 

 of the Pilgrim's. Is it poflible, faies the Grand Seignor, that there is not at this time 

 any Mafter living who can make a Ring any thing like fuch a one, whom he nam'd ? 

 The Doctor, whofe apprehenfion was not fo good, as to fee that this trap was laid 

 for his deilrudtion, and thinking to intinuate himfelf more and more into the Grand 

 Seignor's favour, told himT-,hat, by good Fortune he had a Ring of that very Mailer's 

 work, which he had kept 2 long time, and that if his Highnefs would be pleas'd to ac- 

 cept of it, he would bring it thither, which he prefently did. 



Afloon as the Grand Seignor was return'd to his own Quarter, he fent for the 

 Grand Vizir, and the Pilgrim, who came into his prefence, and he had in his hand the 

 Chapelet of Corral, which he made as if he were repeating, to try whether the Pilgrim 

 would know it again. The other having well obferv'd it,addrefs'd himfelf to the Em- 

 perour, faying, If it [hall pleafe your Highnefs to permit me to open my mouth, I dare 

 affirm, that the Chapelet, you have in your hands, is very like that, which was in my 

 little bag of Jewels, and poffibly I (hall not be mitlaken, if I fay it is the very fame. 

 Whereupon the Grand Seignor commands him to come nearer, and putting the Chape- 

 let, and the Ring into his hands, the Pilgrim affirms, upon his life, that they are the ve- 

 ry fame things, which he had left in the cuftody of the Doctor. He coming the next 

 morning, according to his cuftom to make a report of fome criminal caufe to the Grand 

 Seignor, that Prince, who was a perfon of great ingenuity and apprehenfion, propofes 

 to him a cafe fomewhat of the fame nature with that between him and the Pil- 

 grim, and ask'd him what punilhment fuch a crime deferv'd. The unfortunate man, 

 blinded by a good fortune wherein he thought himfelf already well eitabliuVd,and what 

 was paft being clearly got out of his remembrance, pronoune'd fentence againft himfelf, 

 and anfwers the Grand Seignor, That fuch a perfon, deferv'd to be pounded alive in a 

 Mortar. 



Afivtrifbia 

 Upon that fentence, the Emperour caus'd him to be immediately fecur a, and having j u (i Pmfhmm* 



order'd 



