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made to pay for his Bleed ; and the fet rate fo-; the Blood of a Man, is five The pnce of 
hundred Pitres, or forty five thonO",d Âfpres -, fo that it is the interest of J,^'"^.'"^^!;'"'^'' 
every one to fee that no noiie be nia^c before his Door, or at leafl: to obferve ^een kiil'dbe- 
thofethat make it: this is very exadly cbferved in relation to the Turks ,fore any bo- 
but the Cbriftians have many times partial Juftice done them. When I was flies cloor. 
« 2X. Cofffimtwo^le^ a poor Greek meeting fome Turks coming out of a Tavern 
in Galata, they asked him for fome flowers that he had in his hand, and he 
having given tothe one and denied the other, telling him he had no more j 
the Villain gave the poor Greek a flab with a Ca^^iar in the Body, and fo fled. 
This having happened before the Convent of the Jacobins^ the poor wretch 
was immediately carried into their courtfor relief,but he was hardly there before 
he Expired; which at the fame time coming to the knowledge of the Vaivode 
or Bailiff of CaUta^ l e fent 3rd demanded of the poor Religious, and of a 
French Merchant that lived overagainft them, the Blood of that Man ; but . 
(luckily for them) th-.i f^ai-vode was Strangled four or five days after, '^'^^ 
before they had paid tl eir Money \ fo that they were quitted for the fear of 
it. To prevent accidertsin the Night-time, all Perfons whatfoever are pro- Nq man isa- 
hibited to be abroad in the ftreets cfter that night is in, except during the broad in the 
Ramadan ; and if the Under Ba^Ja, who is as the Captain of the Watch, or ftreets of Con- 
Conftable, and ought to walk about all night long, meet any Man, he car- ■^^^^""^fjj'^/" 
ries him before the Cady^ who examines who he is, and then being known, time. ''^ 
he is led to Prifon, and beware oi B ifionadoesntxt morning, and of a Fine to under Bâ^u. 
boot, if he give not good reafons why he was abroad at fuch an hour ; nay 
though he fliould be cleared, without Blovv's or a Fine, yet it is a difgrace to 
have been taken abroad in the Streets in the Night-time. 
I think it will not be amifs to tell here what money they ufe at Conftanti- uom^ oïcon- 
mple. The Turkilh Chcqnin is worth two Piafires ; the Venetian is worth Jiainimpk. . 
ten Jffres more j the Ptafîre or Picadc of fifty eight Sols, is commonly worth Turkifh ck- 
ninety Affres, and fometimes only eighty. The Ajlanie is worth eighty 
Affres; and when the is but worth four fcore ^y^jrej, the Ajlanie is but x'j^e 
worth threefcore and fifteen. Thefe Aflanies are the German Rix Dollars, 
which have a Lion on one fide ; and for that they are called Aflanies, from the 
Turkifli word Aflan, that fignifies Lyon. The Ifelotte is worth fifty Hve jfojoue. • 
Affres. The Affres are little pieces of Silver that have no other fl;amp but ^r^f^J. 
the Grand Signior's, Name,and are worth about eight Deniers,or three Farthings 
a piece, but there are many of them Counterfeit, and onemuft have a care of 
that ; fo that to receive half a Crown in them, it requires half a quarter of an 
hour to examine the Pieces one after another ; but great payments require 
whole days. That this may be the more commodioufly done,they tell the Afpres 
upon Boards made for that purpofe, which they call Tahhta^that have a ledge- Takhta. 
ing to keep them from falling, except at one end, where it draws narrower, 
by which they pour them into the Bagg: on thefe Boards they pick out all 
the good ones, and lay afide the bad. They have alfo pieces of two, three, four, 
five, fix, ten Affres, &c. And this is all the Silver Money they coin at Conflan- 
tinofle ; fo that payments are hardly made in any other Money. To an Affre 
go fix ^Wr tjj, which are pieces of Copper about the bignefs of a French (^ir/«c 
Double : they have alfo half Q^adrins^ which they call Mmgowrs ; when they 
fay a Pmfe, they underftand five hundred Piaf res ^ or fourty five thoufand Affres^ 
which is the fame thing. As to their Weights, the Camar is a hundred and cmm. 
fifty Rottes, the Rotte is twelve Ounces, the Ounce twelve Drachms,the Drachm Rottex. 
is fixteen Quirats, the Quirat four Grains ; the Medical is a Drachm and a i^rachms. 
half, the Oque contains four hundred Drachms ; fo that the Oque is worth ^Mediùt 
xJaxtQRottes, two ninths lefs. o^ue. 
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