5 é Travels into the Lev ah t. Part I. 
The opening Days, but But firft the Chtaoux Bajha takes off the Seal Icokirg if it be whole ; 
of the Gutid ^^^^ yjhtn they have taken out of that haz^na what they hrd a mird to teke, or 
signiorsTïc^- ^j^^^ ^^gy to put, it is Ihut again ; and then the gives 
his Seal to the C/3?^owr who Seals up the Lock of it. WhiJell the J^z-z/^w 
Agit of the is Sitting, the Agd of the Jmtz.artes is brought in before the Grand Sigmor^ 
garnîmes, ^^le Cafidgi Bûjha^ and ChiMux Bajha : This Jga gives the Grand Sigmor an 
spihiler Aoafi. account of his charge, and then returns. After him the SpahUar ,Jg 4 h in- 
' trcduced in the fame manner : next the CadtU fquers. then all the Officers of 
the Di'van J and laft of all the T/yFtrj. All theie Officers go every Divan âay 
and give the Grand Sigmor account of what they have done, and none of them 
can proraife to himfelf to bring back his Head again ; for the Grand Signisr 
for a fraall matter will caufe them to be Srangled upon the fpot. 
CHAP. XLVIIL ■ ' 
Of the Oeconomy or -régulation of Provifions amongfl 
the Turl^. Of the Money and Weights of Con- 
. ftantinopie. 
I 
N ail things the Turks are fo great lovers of Order, that they omit nothing 
that can tend to the obfervance of it ; and becaufe ceconomy and the regu- 
lation of provifions, is one of the chief things that ferve to maintain it, they 
take a ipecial care of that \ fo that all things are to be had in plenty, and at 
reafonable rates : rhey never fell Cherries or other Fruits there when fir/t 
they con^einatthe weight of Gold, as they do in this Country-, things are 
, ' fold there always at reafojiable rates ^ and he that hath taken the pains to 
bring his Fruit fooneft to Mrirket, has no more advantage but to take Money 
before others • if any one offered to exidl upon a Turk in felling of his Goods, 
he would be foundly Drubbed, or clfe brought untojuftice, and there be Con- 
demned to Bafionadoes, befides the payment of a Fine j and therefore there are 
Officers that take care to examine the weights of thofe that fell Goods, who 
daily go their rounds, and if they find any Man with v^eights that are too light, 
or that fells his Goods toodear,they fail not upon th": fpot to order him fo many 
blows with a Cudgel upon the Soles of the Feet,and belides make him pay a Fine: 
fo that being a fraid of that puniOiment, they'll always give you foraewhat over 
and above the weight; and fo one may fend a Child to Market provided it can but 
ask for vvhat it wants,for nonedurft cheat theChild jandfometimesthe Officers 
of the Market meeting it, will ask what it payed for fo much Goods, and weigh 
them, to fee if the poor thing hath not been cheated, for if it be, tliey carry it 
along with them and punifh the feller.' I faw a Man who fold Snow at five 
The puniQi- Dmm the pound, receive Blows upon the Soles of his Feet, becaufe his weight 
ment of fel- was not exactly full. Another having fold a Child a Double worth of Onions, 
lersbyfalfe and the Officers oftbe Market meeting this Child, and finding that he had 
weights. not enough, went to that Man, and gave him thirty Blows with a Cudgel. 
Another pun- They have alfo another punifl'iment for thofe that fell with falfe Weights, 
idinient for vvhich feems not to be fo harfh, but is more Ignominious,as being more publick ; 
iiich as fell by j-j^gy p^j. ^ j^^ns neck into a Pillory made- of two Boards, weighing an hundred 
pouod weight, which he carries on his ffioulders, and with thefe being hung 
full of little Bells, he marches up and down the Town, to be laughed at by 
all that fee and know him. As to diforders and quarrels that happen in the 
Streets, every one is obliged to hinder them ; .md that all may be the more 
concerned in that, there is a Law much received, that if any dead Perfon be 
found in the Sreets, v^hether he be Chriftian, Turk, or Jew, and it be not 
known who Killed him ; they before whofe door the Dead Man is found, are 
made 
