Part IL Travels into the L^vast. 
ftrainer, which looks then like honey, they put it into the fat. For want of 
Dates they make ufe of the Juice of black grapes well ftamped, and for 
want of grapes, they take the Juice of ftamped figs. ( In Jleppo they ule 
grapes having no dates. ) 
Four days^fter they have put in thefe vvaters of Dogs- turd and Date, 
they add to it about two handfulls of unflacked Lime. The preparation of 
that dye requires feven or eight days, and fometimes a fortnight, during that 
time they keep a gentle fire of Camels-dung under the Fat, but fb weak that 
it ferves onely to keep the dye always warm ; they put no urine to it, ufing 
Dogs turd in ftead of it, which they fay makes the Indigo to ftick better to 
the things that are dyed. 
There is an Wi^w living at Aleppo^who paints Boxes and Canes of Pipes, on 
which he makes a great many Circles, and little points of divers Colours ; 
but being the onely perfon that knows the fecret, he is fo jealous of it, 
that he will not teach any other, and it was to no purpofe for Monfieur Ber- 
tet to otFer him five and twenty fiafires to oblige him to tell it me. 
CHAP. VIIL 
The Sequel of the Obfervations of Aleppo. 
WHilftI was at Aleppo there was a Zineh kept; that word literally fig- :(ineJi 
nifies Ornament, but here it fignifies a Feftival, or, (if you pleafe,) a 
publick rejoycing. Thefe Zinehs here are more magnificent than at Caire, 
where the houfes onely of the Confiils, Beys and the great Baz,ar are ador- 
ned, and nothing elle of any note. But feeing there are many rich Mer- 
chants in Aleppo, by reafon of the great trade of the place ; at all times when 
there is a Ztneh, every one hangs his (hop infide and outfide, with the fineft 
ftufFs he can get, covers the Floor with lovely Carpets, and lays rich Cufiii- 
ons upon them ; lights a great many Lamps and Wax-Candles, and lb all 
the Bazaars being covered,it yields a glorious profped. You (hall fee a Bazar, 
whereof all the houfes are hung with Velvet of feveral pieces or ftreaks,another 
with Cloath of Gold and Silver, another with Cloath, another with wrought 
Stuffs, and fo every Bazar according to the trade of it, and the Wealth of 
the Tradefmen who live there. The gates of the great men are alfo ador- 
ned with coftly Stuffs, lovely Arms, and all forts of Lamps. During that 
time they are day and night in their Di'vans, which neverthelels are onely 
their Shops transformed into Divans: But all the fliops in Turkey are raifed 
two or three foot from the ground, and there, as I told you, they fpread 
Carpets, and lay Cufhions all round, and on the outfide have rails of wood 
which they alfo cover with Carpet. They vifit each other, and mutually 
receive their vifits in their Divans : and there they entertain themfelves with 
Coffee and Sorbet, mufick after their way, and their little Lute which they 
call Tamboura. 
The Zmeh which I few at Aleppo, was appointed for feven days, beginning , 
on Sunday the two and twentieth of June ; the reafon of that rejoycing was, of'a 
the Birth of the Grand Signiors Eldeft Son; whereupon immediately PrinJe° ^ 
were lent from Cow/<?»ti«op/f, to all the Towns of TMry^ey, to publiflithe news 
and appoint Zinehs. So foon as the Aga arrived, the Zineh was proclaimed 
all over the Town, and then the Guns of the Caftle proclaimed it more 
loudly, which continued Morning and Night all the days following; If any 
had failed to rejoice, and to adorn bis houTe, of whatfoever Nation, religion, 
or quality he was; he would have been deeply fined ; and if a Subject of the 
Grand Signiors, Baftonadoed befides. 
During the Zineh all walk freely day and night up and down the City, 
which in the Night-time is lighted by a great number of Lamps in all the 
Streets, where there is conftantly fo great a Croud, that one has much adoe 
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