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very heavy when they walk, or hang it by a hook that they have by their 
fide which commonly gives them a pain in the fide, or elfe muft carry it on 
their Shoulders, in thefe Baths there is a great Hall where they are ihut up 
in the Night-time, there they lodge as well as they can, fome having little 
Rooms made of vvood, to which they go up by Ladders, and are flowed 
three or four together in one, the reft lye upon the Ground, but all horridly 
bad, for being very numerous, and lock'd in in the Night-time, they do 
their needs where they are in Pots, which raifes a noyfome ftench ; befides 
when one has a mind to fleep, fome fall a talking, and others a quarelling 
and fighting, making conftantly a hideous din, which feems to me a Hell 
upon Earth. 
In the morning this Prilbn is opened, and thofe that are to work, are 
let out, who are condufted to their Labour by men that take care of it; 
they are employed in building and other works of that nature-, and I have 
known Knights oïMah/t of noble Families there, who have been made ferve 
as Labourers, fome carrying Sand and others Scone, and they were .thus ufed 
to oblige them to ranfom themfelves the fooner, and at the higher rate. 
They who can get any thing by their own induftry, pay fo much a day to 
their Mafter, andfo are not forced to work. Many of them keep taverns,' 
and thefe live the beft of all, for they get money, and work not, but yet 
they muft give their Mafter part of their Profit. None but flaves fell Wine 
at Timis^ it is all white, and grows in great plenty in the Countrey about, 
but they put Lime to it to make it intoxicate. They fell their Wine cheap, 
and it is the cuftome, that* if you go to a Tavern and call for a quart of 
Wine, they will fet Bread before you, and three or four difhes of Meat or 
Fifh, with Salladsand other appurtenances, and when you are to go, you only 
pay for the Wine, and at a reafonable rate too ; befides,thefe Slaves have power 
to beat the Turks if they are rude and infolent in their Taverns, and to 
pull of their Turban and keep it till |;hey have payed their reckoning, if 
they refufe to do it. 
The Slaves who neither work nor gain any thing, cannot ftep out of the 
Bath, without leave from the Keeper thereof who gives them a man to wait 
on them, to whom they ought (at leaft) to give three pence for his pains, and 
he is to anfwer for them. Our Knights were of the Number of thofe laft, 
for having written to Malta that they were forced to work, the Turks that 
were flave at Malta were feverely Baftonadoed, who immediately wrote to 
T/îWj, that if they continued to make the flaves of Malta-work 2X.Tumsy they 
would be Cudgeled to death in Malta, and fince that time, they are no 
more put to work. 
C H A P. LXXX} 
Of the Dey and other Officers of Tunis/ 
MVfiafavfho vi^as Dfji in the year 1557. was the fixth i^^y: Before they 
had Deysj the Bafha commanded in name of the Grand Si^nior., and 
lived in the Caitle, but has been turned out ever fince the Moors made an 
Infurredion, and made one Ofman their firft Dey. This Dey is almoft abfolute, Thei?ej» of 
Coins money, (which confifts in little fquare pieces of Silver of the value of J^""^^ 
Maidins) and obeys the Grand Sigmor no farther than he thinks fit, nay, and " ^" 
fometimes puts to death thofe whom the Grand S?^«/or fends, ifthebufinefs 
they come about difpleafe him, as it happened to a Chiaoux fent from the 
Grand Sr^nior, a little before I was there : And indeed, when the Ambalfadours 
of the Franks complain to the Grand Sigmor of the Corfairs of Barhary, all 
the anfwer they have is, that they muft: make reprifal upon them, and that 
they are Subjects whom the Grand Signior cannot command. At prefent the 
Baflia 
