Part L Travels inp the h^y an r. ^ i 
mending the High-ways, filling the Cifterns that are there ftanding by the Wa- 
ters, when they are out, that they mayllhew Travellers the Foard, and all this, 
for Gods fake, refufing money when it is offered them ^ for they do it (as they 
fay) for the fake of God, and not for the fake of Money. Their Charity ex- 
tends alfo even to Bealls and Birds, and all Market-days there are a great many The charity 
who go and buy Birds, which they prefently fet at liberty, faying, that the '^^^ Turks 
Souls of thefe Birds will come at the Day of Judgment, and declare in the pre- '^^^^^ ^'^^^^ 
fence of God, the kindnefs that they have received from them ; and, indeed, 
they cannot endure to fee aBeafi; kept in pain ; for when they kill their Pullets, 
they cut of their head at one blow ; and if they fawa man kill any after the 
French way, they would not forbear to cudgel him ; nay, they reckon it cru- 
, elty to kill a Loufe or Flea with the nail, they do no more but give them one 
or two turns betwixt the finger and thumb, and then throw them away dead or 
alive. There are others, who at their death leave conflderable Means for the 
feeding fo many Dogs or Cats fo many times a week, and give the money to 
Bakers or Butchers for performing that charity, which is faithfully and pundu- 
ally enough put in execution ; and it is very pleafant to fee every day Men 
loaded with meat, go and call the Dogs and Cats of the Foundation, and being 
furrounded with them, dillribute it among them by commons. I could here 
give an hundred Inftances of the charity of the Turks towards Beafts ; I have An inftanœ 
fecn them often pradtice fuch as to us would feem very ridiculous : I have feen '^1 ^['^ 'î'^fJ^^ 
feveral Men in good garb, ftop in a ftreet, Hand round a Bitch that had newly toward Beafts 
puppied, and all go and gather ftbnes to make a little wall about her, left 
fome hcedlefs perfon might tread upon her ; and many fuch like Examples ; 
but it is not my defign to trouble the Reader with fuch trifles. In fine, Snltan 
jbnurath^ who in all appearance had no Religion, and who made fo flight a 
matter of the life of a man,rhat if a day paft wherein he had not put fome body 
to death, he was out of humour; this cruel Prince (I fay J was afFeded with 
that fuperftitioas and beftial compaffion ; for feeing a man one day flop at the 
corner of a flreet in Conftaminofle^ to^âine on a piece of Bread and a bit of roaft 
Meat, which he had bought hard by, and hold his Horfe ( that was loaded with 
Goods he had to fellj by the bridle; he ordered the Horfe to be unloaded, 
and the load put upon the Mailer's back, obliging him to continue fo all the 
while that the Horfe was eating a meafure of Oats, which he caufed to be given 
him j and upbraided the Man for the cruelty towards his Horfe, in that he al- 
lowed the beaft no reft, when he took it to himlelf 
The Fifth Command of the Turks is. To go to Mecha, and is the Command 
the worft obeyed of all, becaufe many are not able to perform that Pilgrimage 
for want of Money, and feveral others are hindred by their Affairs ; neverthe- 
lefs, they labour ftill as much as they can, to put themfelves in a condition of 
performing it fome time or other ; and many go thither yearly : But I fhall 
treat more amply of this Pilgrimage, when 1 come to difcourfe of '^£ypt. 
CHAP. XXXIX. 
Of things Prohibited in the Twhlfh Religion» 
NExttothe five above-mentioned Commandments, there are fome things F,vures pr 
that are Prohibited to the Turks, which they cannot make ufe of with- hibited t 
out fin : And in the firft place Figures, the prohibition whereof they exadly mong the 
obferve -, for though they be great lovers of Clocks and Watches, they'I not Turks, 
take them, if you would give them them for nothing, if they have any Figures 
of Men, Women, or Beafts upon them ; but they matter it not, if they be of 
Trees or Flowers. When they fee any Figures, they are fo highly offended, 
that they cannot forbear to exprefs their anger. When I was in t/^gyptj there 
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