Chap.lV. Grand Seignor's Seraglio. 33 



ty and nine beads, upon each of which, the T^riSy repeat certain words taken out of 

 fome fentences 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 T'urkf have their Beads in their hands when they are 

 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, catting his eyes upon them,and prefently imagining, that it might well 

 be the Pilgrim's lejhicb, 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 fubmiffion to accept of it. The Grand Seignor takes it, and making fome difcove- 

 ries how acceptable that Prefent was to him, does, by that prudent diilimulatioh, caufe 

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

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

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

 was a Ring, the work of an excellent and an ancient Matter, famous 1 for that fort of 

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

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

 folute conviction of the Doctor. 



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'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 G/r/>, where he alfo call'd for a Bowe,there being not any perfon in 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, prefuming that the Doctor, who flood neer him, and had already prefented 

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

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

 any Mafler 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 deftruction, and thinking to inlinuate himfelf more and more into the Grand 

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

 work, which he had kept a 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. 



Affoon as the Grand Seignor was teturn'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- 

 pereur, 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 poiïibly I (hall not be miftaken, if I fay it is the very lame. 

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

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

 ry fame things, which he had left in the cuftody ofthe 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 punifhment fuch a crime deferv'd. The unfortunate man, 

 blinded by a good fortune wherein he thought himfelf already well eflablilh'd,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. 



Upon that fentence, the Empereur caus'd him to be immediately fecur'd, and having j u (i puuhjfhnti 



order'd 



