Part L Travels into the Lev ant. 
Prieft would not fuffer. He did fo to the reft, pouring always out water for 
every one of them, with the fign of the Crofs ; but when he came to the twelfth, 
that Prieft (who reprefcnted St. Peter) rofe and made as if he would not fuffer 
the Patriarch to wafh his Feet, in imitation of St. Peter, who was unwilling 
that his Mafter fliould render him that fervice; but at length, after he had 
fpoken a little, and that the Patriarch had made anfwer, he fate down, as 
St. Peter did, who being told by Jefns Chrtft, That he could have no part in 
the Kingdom of Heaven, if he fuffered him not to wafh his Feet, faid. Not my 
Feet only, hut my alfo Head and Hands. 
Durina this Ceremony, norhing was to be heard in the Church, but the 
groans and lamentations of Men and Women, which were foloud, that they 
HiOved even the moft obdurate almoft, to Ihed tears alfo, and yet the fi^jed 
of all this weeping, was, only to fee the Patriarch walh the Feet of thefe Priefts. 
After this, the Patriarch put on his Patriarchal Habits again, and the Ewer and 
R;^fon were carried away ; then came fuch a Croud about him that carried them 
flv'/ay, that I thought they would have ftifled him, every one ftrove to dip a 
Handkerchief into that Foot-laver, and came on fo faft, that before the Clerk 
had made fix fteps, the Bafon was as dry as ever it was. Then the Gofpel was 
read, the Heads vvhereof the Patriarch explained in a Greek Sermon, and fo the 
Ceremony ended. 
C H A P. LXXVIIL 
Of the JcïPî and Turh^ that are in ^gypt. 
IT remains now that Ï fpeakof the Jews and Turks who are in Mgy^t. As Jews in C<?/Vf. 
for the Jews, I have fpoken of them before, and fhall only add here, that 
there a great many Jews at Caire, who have a Quarter where they all live by 
therafelves ; this is a large Quarter, and contains a great many Streets, but 
all (hort, narrow, nafty and ftinking. The Jews manage all the Cuftoms in 
<Ly£gyp-, and all the Serafs are Jews. <!^^_)';f is Governed by a Balha, fent thi- ^?^/)t the fe- 
ther by the Grand Signior, and it is the fécond Bafiialhip of all the Turkifli Em- condBalhalhip 
pire ; that of Bnda is the chief, but it is only in Honour, for it yields no ?^ T""^^* 
Profit J on the contrary, the Grand Signior is obliged to fend Money thither ^nd Buiathc 
for maintaining the Garifon : But this is a profitable Government, for the firft firft. 
day tiie Balha of <i^gyp arrives at Caire, he hath an Hundred thoufand Ptaftres, The Profits 
ano fv ly Month after, feven Purfes, not reckoning the many cafual Profits "^^^ 
whicn he has on all occrjfions. And indeed, he buys this Government, paying ^^™°^^* 
for it fometimes two or three hundred thoufand Ptaftres ; and befides that, 
he muft furnifti vaft Sums irom the Revenue of R^yft, before he put a Penny 
into his own CofFers, paying yearly fi\re Haz,na. Now a Haz.na or Treafure, 
confilts of 1 200. Purfes, which make thirty Millions of Maidins, that is Nine ^'^î"'^'" 
hundred and nine thoufand and ninety Ptaftres Royals, and thirty Maidms ; 
fo that five f/^iz,»^^ are fifty millions of Maidms., or Four millions five hundred 
forty five thoufand , four hundred fifty four Ptaftres Royals , and eighteen 
Matdms. One of t\\Q{Q Haz^na is fent to the e'rW Sz_^«/or in Money, another 
4n Provifions, a third is employed in paying the Soldiers, and all Officers in 
y£oy^t ; the fourth is for the Prefent of Mecha, and the laft for the Balha. 
He IS befides all this, obliged now and then to give great Sums, for fecuring 
himfelf in his Place, aclealttiilhe be Teimburfed the money that he hath laid 
out. For inftance, One at Conftantmople, may perhaps, offer the Grand Stg' 
mor Two hundred thoufand Ptaftres, to be made Balha of Caire is made 
known to him that, is in place, who (if he have a mind to keep his place) muft 
give the fame fum that the other hath offered , and fo has the Preference.! believe 
jhe Grand Sigmor often impofes upon them in this manner. So in the Year 
1658. on the firft of Jnly, an Olak^ arrived at Caire from Conftantwople, who 
1^ 1 brought 
