ydl. nr. Mifcellama Quriofa. 6g 



feed their Horfes with Barly and chopt 

 Straw ; for I do not remember ever to have 

 feen any Oats among them j and they make 

 but little Hay. 



For Draught of great Weight in their 

 Carts they make ule of Buffalo's. 



Camels will endure Travel four Days to- 

 gether without Water, and will eat tops of 

 Thiftles, Shrubs, or any kind of Boughs: 

 They are very fure-footed, and kneel when 

 they are a loading, and live to a confidera- 

 ble number of Years^ fome even to fixty- 



The chief Furniture of their Houles are Car- 

 pets or Mats of Grand Cairo^ neatly wrought 

 with Straw, fpread upon the Ground ^ they 

 having no occafion of Chairs, Couches, Stools, 

 or Tables ; their pollures within Doors, be- 

 ing different from ours. They have no 

 Hangings, but their Walls are whited and 

 fet off with Painting, only, adorn'd with a 

 kind of Porcelanej no Beds closed with 

 Curtains. 



They feal not with Wax,but Ink, at the bot- 

 tom of the Paper the Emperor's Name being u- 

 fually written with Flourifhes and in perplext 

 Characters : Nor have they any Goats of Arms 

 upon their Seals,there being 410 fuch thing as 

 Gentility among them. 



Some of them, notwithftanding their Zeal 

 for Mahomet and the Religion by him efta- 

 blifh'd, retain not only a favourable and ho- 

 nourable Opinion of our Blefled Saviour^ but 

 even place fome kind of Confidence in the 

 ufageof his Name, or of the Words of the 

 Gofpel, tho' it may feem to be wholly in the 

 way of Superftition* Thus ia their Amu- 



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