\ Parti. 
Travels into the L e v a n t. 
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C H A P. LXXXXIII. 
Of the Vunijhments which are in Vfe at Tunis. 
THE Punifliments ufed at Tunis^ differ according to the quality of the Per- 
fons. When a Turk in pay deferves Death, he is Executed in a Cham- 
ber, and not Publickly. They make him fit down in a Chair, and two Chri- 
flian Slaves pulling each an end of a Cord, that is put about his Neck, quickly 
Itrangle him. The Turks of mean condition, or Moors^ are Hanged upon the 
outfide of the Walls j they fet them upon the Wall, put about their Neck a 
Halter, made fall in a hole purpofely made in the \A/'all, and then pulhing 
them down, they are alfo foon difpatched. As for Maids or Women, that 
have deferved Death, they choak them in the Oaze by the Sea-fide, putting 
their Head into it, and a Man fetting his Foot upon their Neck. They have 
other very cruel Punifliments for the Renegadoes, that turn Chrillians again : 
They wrap them up in Pitched Cloth, put a Cap of the fame upon their Head, 
and then make a Fire round them. Or otherwife they put them to a crueller 
Death: For they wall them up fo, that there is nothing but their Head with- 
out the Wall, and having rubbed over their Head and Face with Honey, leave 
them fo expofed for three days, and as many nights, to the difcretion of the 
Flies, which pain them to Death within lefs time. The Slaves are punilhed 
with Baftonadoes, or they cut olF their Ears or Nofe, according to the qua- 
lity of the Offence. But if a Slave kill his Mailer, or any other Turk, they 
break his Legs and Arms, then tie him to a HorfesTail, and after they have 
dragged him fo about the Town, ftrangle him, giving the Body to the Franks 
to be Buried \ but moft commonly the Boys take him from the Executioner, 
(as they did a French Man a little before I came lo Tmis) for there are no 
wickeder Boys in the World, than in that Towh. They fnatcht that dead 
Body out of the Executioners hands, in fpight of the Mez^oar^ who is the Mexour 
Officer whom in Turky they call the SoMf-hajla ) and having dragged him about 
for fome time longer j they Roafted him a little with Straw, which they 
kindled under him, and then threw him into the Ditch, out of which the 
French afterwards took him, and buried him in their Burying Place, called St. 
jlnthony^ for the Englilh have one by themfelves. When Twas at Tums^t\iQ 
Franks lived feverally, in the Houfes which they Hired ; but they were a Build- 
ing a pretty commodious Oqnele, where they muft all Lodge with their Con- 
fuls, as in other places of the Levant, 
CHAP. LXXXXIV. . . 
* Our DeparlMre from Goletta^ and the Conti- 
nuation of our Voyage, 
AT length our Captain having done all his Bufinefs, and the Wind offer- 
ing fair, it was time for us to leave Tunis. We parted from thence on 
Wednefday^ the fix and twentieth of M.irch-, about eleven a Clock in the Morn- 
ing, and went by Land on Horfe-back, thatwc might fee fomewhat of Car-^'^'^'^^'^â^' 
tha^e. We went clofe by the Ruines of it, which are above three Leagues 
from Tmis, and there faw the remains of ftately Aqueduds, which conveyed 
water 
