A Relation of the Chap. VII. 



Makoraet's Mahomet pronounces a Curfe upon thofe perfons who fuffer themfelves to be feen, 



Prohibition to an< j U p 0n a \\ t h f e w ho look on them : And the ftrict obfervance of his Law requires' 

 hfisnnaked. Tn at both Men and Women ought to (have themfelves, without ufing the affiftarice 

 of any other hand. 



'An Earth that But molt of the Inhabitants of the E A S T E R. N Parts, the Arabians, Tartars-, and 

 taies ojf hair, the Indians, make ufe of a more eafie expedient then the Razor, to get off hair. It is 



rmEfftttf*' a certain Earth > whicn the V mix with r ° me ° r P iment > or Arfenick, and which be- 

 comes foft as butten When they are in the Bath, and begin to fweat, they take of 

 that Earth, and therewith rub the parts, from which they would have the hair to fall, 

 and prefently after they muft be very careful to fee, whether it begins to fall, as one 

 would obferve a Fowl, whofe feathers he would take off, after it had been calt into 

 fcalding water. For if that Earth be left too long upon the parts whereto it had been 

 apply'd, it burns and makes holes in the flefli, the marks whereof will remain, fome- 

 what refembling thofe, which the Small Pox fometimes leaves behind it. Befides,the 

 skin of thofe parts, whereto this application is made, becomes in time as hard and 

 rough as Leather -, and thofe ungrateful inconveniences have diverted the Turks and 

 Perfians from ufing that Expedient. Nor do the Cbri(lians of the Levantine Countries 

 make ufe of it, though they imitate the Mahumetanes in the Cuftome of frequenting 

 the Baths : But above all, in Perjw, none make ufe of that remedy, but the poorer fort 

 of people. The Ladies, not regarding the prohibition of Mahomet, employ their 

 Female Slaves for the performance of that Office ; and with a fmall kind of Pincers 

 and twitchers, fuch as thofe, wherewith we take off the hair of the muftachoes, they 

 do, with a little more trouble, but lefs hazard, what that Earth does in lefs time, but 

 with more danger. Our Sultanejfes are yet too delicate to imitate the Ladies of Perfia ■» 

 Ray the men themfelves, in Turkey, are not very forward to have that twitch'd off with 

 pain, which the Razour can take off without any trouble. 



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