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Tra7jels into theh^vAi^T. Part II. 
The proceffi- 
on of the Cof- 
fee-fellers. 
Target and 
Scabbard- 
makcrs. 
The proceffi- 
on of the 
Butchers. 
Silk-throw- 
Iters. 
with great Caps of the feme Stuff, ftiaped much after the fafhion of a 
Mitre. 
The fifth was the Company of Coffee- fellers. There were two Boys upon 
their Di^uan, one turning a wheel bythe handle, to grind the Coffee, and 
the other boyling it. The Target-makers and Scabbard-makers followed 
them ; and upon the Divan were two young Boys one fewing a Target, and 
the other polifhing a Scabbard. 
Next came the Butchers, whofe boys that went before them, having dan- 
ced a little before our Khan to the Mufick of their Tabors, advanced to re- 
ceive the Money which the Schekk Bandar gave them, which was about 
twelve or fourteen Afpres^ for above a fcore of-them ; which made me ob- 
fèrve that the Turks are liberal at fmall coft. The Mafters followed the 
men, and their Divan was ftuck round with green Boughs, and feveral pieces 
of flefh hanging thereat: Upon it was a little Boy whetting his Knives, 
At the heels of thele came the Silk-Throwfters : Upon their Divan was a 
little Boy who turned a wheel, which make fix Silk-Looms to turn, and there 
was above, a kind of a pair of yarn-Windles, which turned alfo by one of the 
brings ot rhefe Looms : At each end of an Axletree there were two blades 
crofs-ways, and to every Arm of the Crofs two Lamps fattened, which went 
not out, nor fpilt one drop of Oyl, though they turned very faft; a little 
Black-a-more of Wood, held the handle of that Machine, and leemed to 
turn it. 
Thelaft were the makers of Nofe-bands, that part of the Bridle which co- 
vers the Nofe of Hor(es, at the end whereof hang TaiTels of Silk ; their Di- 
van was adorned all round with them, and had two Boys upon it, the one 
combing and the other fewing them. 
The fixth Evening marched the Joyners, Gardeners, and the Smiths, but 
there happened a fcuffle amongft them ; the laft fighting with another Com- 
pany. 
And the feventh the Barbers, and many others marched before the Cafîle, 
but not before the Khan. In fine, all the folemnity was concluded by a Bone- 
fire, that in the evening was kindled before theCaftle. 
Harveft began when I was at Aleppo^ in the beginning of June, and I was 
told that other years they began it about the fifteenth of May, and ended it 
in the beginning of ^'««e. They reap the Corn aswe doe, but it is not high, 
though it be then very ripe. 
From Spring to Autumn, the Turks leave their Horfes, Mules and Camels 
always abroad, expofed to the Sun, Rain and Wind, without any fear of 
damage,and they lhackle them by the four feet, to wit, the two left Legs with 
one cord, and the other two the fame way ; and at each end of the cord there 
is a piece of Girth that goes about the Horfes foot, and a Rope faftened to it 
to hold it ;-^nd befidesthat the Bealt is fattened by a Rope to a ftake fixed in 
the grounoT As for the Camels, commonly they are not made faft ; onely 
fbmetimes they fhackle their two hind Legs : In the night-time they cover 
them with a Cloath of Goats hair, which in Winter they line with Felt. 
Whilft they keep the Camels and other working Beafts abroad,they give them 
no other food but the grafs they eat ; and that is the reafbn that they are not 
fb ftrong then as at other times ; for Litter they make ufe of their own dung, 
for which end they leave it in the day-time in the Sun, where it grows fb 
dry, that it is almoft reduced to Afhes, and at Night they have a great care 
to fpread it very neatly and fmooth ; which cannot be done with us, becaufe 
of the long ftraws that are mingled with it. 
At Aleppo they make ufe of Pigeons which in lefs than fix hours time bring 
Letters from Alexandretta to Aleppo ^xhou^ 'it be two and twenty good Leagues 
diftant. 
Before I leave Aleppo, I think my felf obliged in charity to acquaint our 
Phyficians, that there is nothing for them to do in Turkey, a fingle confulta- 
tion of a quarter of an hours time at P^m, is worth more than a long Cure 
wrought in Aleppo ; becaufè the Turks are fo coveteous, that they will not at 
all be afhamed to offer twenty Sous ( Tence ) for a Cure, when they are 
asked no more than two or three Crowns for it, for which People of ordinary 
quality 
Nofe-band 
makers. 
Joyners, Gar- 
deners and 
Smiths. 
Barbers. 
A Bone-iîre. 
Harveft-time, 
Work-beafls 
always abroad 
The Litter of 
thefe Beafts. 
Pigeons, Car- 
riers. 
