5 8 Travels into the hEv ant. Part I. 
C H A P. X] 
Of the Tmijhnents and h^nds of Death in Turkey. 
îCinds of Pu- ?T1H E iiiorc common Pimifhments in Turkie, are blows with a flick, either 
jiifhments in ypon the folcs of the Feet, or the Buttocks- They give them on the 
TMrtfj-., folesoftheFeet in this manner: They have a great flick, with two holes in it 
Jvînalafto- about the middle, a large foot and an half dillant from one another, and 
nadoesonthe through thefe two holes they put a cord : He who is to be Baftanado'd, lyes 
Feet. down upon the ground, and his feet are put between that cord and the flaff j 
then two men take the ftaiFby the two ends, and each of them alfo pull an end 
of the cord, that fo he may not fur his feet, that are fall betwixt the cord and 
the ftafF, which they hold up very high : In this poflure he has no flrength to 
move, being only fupported by his ftioulders ; and then two other men, each 
with 2 (tick or Twitch about the bignefs of the lictle finger, beat upon the foles 
of the wretch one after another, like Smiths ilriking upon an Anvil, reckoning 
the blows aloud as fall as they lay them on, until they have given as many as 
have been ordained, or till he that hath power, fay, It is enough. The row- 
ling of the eyes of him that fufFers, fhews this to be a cruel punifhraent \ and 
there are fome after it, who for fevcral months cannot go, efpecially when 
they have received ( or as they fay) eaten three or four hundred blows ; but 
for the matter of thirty,thcy are not at all difabled. When they give them on 
Blows upon the Buttocks, the party is laid upon his belly, aud receives the blows (which 
the Euttocks. ^zià on over his Drawers) in the fame manner as upon the foles of the feet ; 
fometimes they give five or fix hundred blows, but that is the highefl ^ and 
when a Man hath been fo handled, a great deal of mortified and fvvollen flefli 
muic with a Razor be cut cff of his Buttocks, to prevent a Gangrene, and he 
is obliged to keep his bed five or fix months without being able to ficup. In 
TheVunifh- this manner the Women are punilhed, when they deferve it, but never upon 
ment of Wo- their foles. This is a Corredion frequently ufed by them, and for a fmall fault ; 
and fometimes (as I have faid already j they make him who hath received the 
blows, pay fo much money a blow. Mailers give no other Ccrredion to their 
Servants and Slaves, than blows upon the foles of their feet, v;hich they have 
The Turks for the ieait fault they commit 5 and, indeed, they are wonderfully well fer- 
weli ferved. ycd j you'l fee their Servants ftand in their prefence a whole day together, 
like Statues againft a wall, with their hands upon their belly, expeding their 
The Cha- Mafters commands, which with the wink ofan eye are obeyed.SchooI-mafters cha- 
ftifement'of ftife their Scholars with blows upon the foles of the feet,infteadof the whipping 
School-boys, of Chnflendom. The punilhments of thofe who have deferved death,are Hang- 
The kinds of jj^g^ Beheading, Empaling, or throwing upon Tenter-hooks or Spikes of Iron. 
Saaorsl ' "When they carry any Man to be Hanged, if they meet a Chriflian by the way, 
chi-iftians thcy make him the Executioner ; and a Fyench Merchant being on a time enga- 
ici ve for ged in this office, and finding no means to avoid it, did what they bid him do. 
Hang-men. gj^^ having hanged two, asked them if they had no more to be difpatched in 
f ^ that manner ^ whereat the Turks were fo incenfed,that they threw ftones at him, 
( faying. That the Chriflian would have them all hanged -, fo that it was his 
beil courfe to make his efcape. In cutting olFHeads, they are very dextrous, 
and never mifs. As for Empaling, I fiiall fpeak of it in another place,b£caufe it is 
Gm-he a Pu- not much pradifed at C<?;-;/?^,'??2»op/e. Now the G"rf«ck,or throwing upon Hooks, 
nifliment. " is performedin this manner : They have a very high Strappado,fluck full ofvery 
fcarp-pointcd Hooks of Iron, fuch as Butchers have in theirShambles ; and 
having hoilied the Malefaftor up to the lop of it, they let him fall ^ and as he 
never fails to becacchedby a Hook in falling, fo if he hang by the middle of 
the body, his cafe is none of the woril, for he fuddainly dies ^ but if the Hook 
catch him by any other part, he ianguifhes fometimes three days upon it, and 
at length, enraged with pain, hunger and thirll, expires. This Torment 
hath 
