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Travels into the hEw ant. Part I 
The Grand Bafha o{ the Grand Signior is fo much a flave there, that he cannot ftir abroad 
signiors Baîha out of his Houfe, without leave from the Dey^ of whom he muft fend to 
can do no gsk it every time he goes out, which cofts him befides above an hundred 
tf]ingatr««y p^.^^^^^^ that he muft give to the Deys Guards, and that is the reafon. he 
goes feldom abroad. They have a Bey there alfo, made by the Grand Sigmor ; 
his bufinefs is to go into the Countrey, and gather the Caradgc and other 
the Grand Signiors Dues, which he pays in to the Bafhay who fends it to 
Conftantinofle ^ but this Bey has a part in it hirafelf, gives part to the Dty, 
and the reft to the Bafha. 
When a Dt^dies, his Children conceal his Death, leaft another Dt;/ fliould 
be çhofe againft their will, and in the morning every one coming (as the 
cuftome is) to wifh the Dey a good day; his eldeft Son tells them how his 
Theeftablifh- Father before his Death, declared to him fuch a one for his SoccefTour, who 
ment of the jg commonly his Kiaya, or fome other Friend of theirs, for they make a 
The death compad with him whom they would have to be Dey^ before they make 
oUhQDey. any Declaration; then his friends jxjyn with him, and immediately the Imam 
going up to the top of the Minaret of the Mofque in the Caftie, publifhes 
the death of the Dey he never goes up thither but at the ufual hours, un- 
lefs it be at the death of a Dey ; and therefore when ever he is feen there at 
an unufual hour, it is known that the Dey is dead, and then a man fpeeds 
through the City on Horfe-back, crying (Sod fave Dey fnchaone, and all Ihut 
up Ihop, and ftand to their Arms, until the Forts be put into the hands of 
the Officers of the new Dey^ for fear fome other in the mean time fliould 
ufurp the Dfy-lhip, 
When it is generally known who is Dey, all the Cadys and others, who 
ftand in need of his favour, bring him Prefents, (butin the Night-time ) 
and in great Difhes covered with Fruit or Meat, under which there may be 
five, fix, feven or eight Purfes ; fothat the firft night he receives above two 
hundred Purfes in Prefents. They bring them in the night-time, that they 
may not be perceived, leaft it fliouId be faid, that he was corrupted by ' 
Bribes; and if they were brought to him by jday, he would refufe thera, and 
fall into a great Paffion againft him that fhould offer to bring him a prefent; 
they come then in the Night-time, and only kifs his Veft, having one or more 
Servants carrying difhes of Fruit or Meat, with the prefent at the bottom, 
and as they kifs his Veft, they whifper to him, what they have brought ia 
thefe Difhes. After all, the Dey keeps no great Court, nor carrys it out with 
any great Majefty, but fliews himfelf familiar enough with every Body ; I 
faw him once as he was coming back from a Mofque in the City, he walked 
on foot, was cloathed in a fcarlet Jufiacors lined with Samonr^ and had 
but a fmall Retinue The Dey cannot procure that his Son fhould fucceed 
him after his Death ; having asked Don Phtltppo the i^eafon of that, he told 
me, it was becaufe when Young- men find themfelves all of a fudden advanc'd 
to fo great power, they fall into fuch debauched courfes, that they render 
themfelves infupportable to all People, forcing all the Women and Boys 
they meet with ; fo that if a Dey would have his Son to fucceed him, he muft 
The4g<zof get him imàeDey in his own Life-time. They have at r«wf alfo an Jlgaof 
the Cuftomes the Cufltomes, who has a vaft Revenue, and is a man of great Authority, 
at r«»ù. -yj^ç Moors of Barhary are not altogether Apparrelled like the Turks, for 
' inftead of a Doliman and a Veft, they wear a Waftecoat, which they call Gillet, 
and over it a Jufiacors, which reaches down to the knee, girt about with a 
large Girdle ; on their head they wear a Fez-cap fhaped like a Bell, and a 
thick Turban round it. They are all Apparrelled after this manner, except 
fome Officers : as for inftance, there are fix Chiaouxs of Juftice, who wear 
a fharp pointed Cap with a Turban about it, and a kind of Hanging-fleeve 
that is interlaced with it behind their back ; the Oda Bafhas go much after 
the fame manner, but there is this difference, that their Hanging-fleeve ends 
as it were in a pair of Horns. They have no Janizaries, but men of pay, 
and generally all Renegadoes ; fo that Italian is very comnjonly fpoken at Thms^ 
and if a Chriftian would fay any thing that he would not have known, he 
fhould notfpeak French neither, for he might eafily be underftood, and pay 
dear for it. 
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