Part I 
Travels into, the h^v ant. 
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CHAP. XXXVI. ^ 
Of what renders the TnrJ^ Vnclean^ and of 
their Ablutions. 
TH E third Command of the Turks concerns Prayer, but becaufe they Ablutions of 
never fay their Prayers till firft they wafh, we mull fay fomewhat of Turks, 
their Ablutions. The Turks have two kinds of Ablutions, the one is called 
CohJI^ and is a general Wafliing of the whole Body : The other is termed 
uibdefiy and is the Ablution they commonly make before they begin their 
Prayers; for they never go to Prayers till firft they have u fed the yibdefi at of the Ahdefi. 
leaft, or both the GohJI and ^bdefi, if it be needful ; wherefore there are com- 
monly near the Mofques, Baths for the GohJI, and Fountains for the Abdcfi. OithtCwJi^. 
There is alfo an Ablution that they perform after that they have done their 
Needs, which is a kind of Abdefi, but they only wafii their HaMs. They are 
obliged to ufe the GohJI, after they have lain with their Wives, or after No- 
éturnal Pollution, or when Urine, or any other unclean thing hath fallen up- 
on them ; and therefore when they make Water, they fquat down like Wo- 
raen,leaft any drop of it ihould fall upon them or their Cloaths j for they think 
that that which pollutes their Bodies or Cloaths, pollutes alfo their Souls : as 
alfo by wafliing the Body, they think they wafli the Soul. After they have 
made Water, they rub the Yard againft a Stone, to fetch off any thing that 
might remain and defile them by falling upon their Cloaths. When they do 
their Needs,they make not ufe of Paper ( as I have faid) but having eafed them- 
felves, they make all clean with their Fingers, that they dip into Water, and 
then wafh their Hands, which they never fail to do after they have done their 
Needs, nay, and after they have made Water too ; wherefore there is always 
a Pot full of Water in their Houfes of Office, and they carry two Handker- TheNeatnefs 
chiefs at their girdle, to dry their Hands after they have waflied. This clean- of the Turks, 
linefs is in fo great repute with them, and they are fo fearful leaft they fhould 
defile themfelves with their Excrements, that they take care that even their 
Sucking Children in Swadling Cloaths do not defile themfelves, and for that 
end they fwadle them not as we do, but put them into Cradles which have a A Cradk af^ 
Hole in the middle, much about the place where the Child's Buttocks lie, and ter the Tur= 
leave always the Breech of it naked upon the Hole j to the end that when it l^i'^fafhiom 
does its Bufinefs, the Excrement may fall into a Pot juft under the hole of the 
Ctadle; and for making of Water, they have little Pipe of Box- wood crooked 
at one end, and fnaped like Tobacco-Pipes, thefe Pipes are three Inches long, 
and as big as ones Finger j feme have the Boul or Hole at the great end round, 
and ferve for Boys, into which the Yard is put, and faftned with fome firings ; 
the others are of an Oval bore at the great end, and ferve for the Girls, who 
have them tied to their Bellies, and the fmall end pafïïng betwixt their Thigh?, 
conveys the Urine by the hole of the Cradle into the Pot underneath without 
fpoiling of any thing ; and fo they fpoil not fo much Linnen as Children in 
Chriftendom do. Now to continue the order of their Ablutions, they are 
obliged to make the y^bdeji immediately after Prayers, as they are to wafli their 
Hands immediately after they have done their Needs, or handled any thing 
that's unclean ; and if they be in a place where they cannot find Water,they may 
make ufe of Sand or Earth in ftead of Water, not only for the Abdejl, but the 
Goufl alfo, and the wafliing of the Hands, and that Ablution will be good : 
The Abdeji is performed in this manner, Firft, Turning the Face towards Me- The way of 
cha, they wafh their Hands three times, from the Fingers end to the Wrift. doing the 
Secondly, They wafli the Mouth three times, and make clean their Teeth with -^Wt/?. 
a Brufti. Thirdly, They wafli the Nofc three times, and fuck Water up out 
of their Hands into their Noftrils. Fourthly, With their two Hands they 
throw Water three times upon the Face. Fifthly, They wafh three times, 
their 
