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draw the Bucket full of Water, they faften this great Rope to an Ox, whom 
they drive foreward about twenty paces in defcent, that he may draw more 
eafily and faft. When the Bucket is up, they let the water run out at the 
Pipe into a little furrow, from whence it fpreads over their grounds : When 
that is done, they bring the Ox back again, and fo fet him a drawing as 
before. I cannot tell why in this Countrey and in Ferfm they make no u(è of 
PoufTeragues as in Egyft and the Weft of Turky. 
Whilfi: I was at Moful the Cuftomer (who learnt that I was a Franck, ) (ènt 
for me and my (ervant, and having prefented me with Colfee, he deman- 
ded of me ten Fiafires, for the Cuftome of two load ot Goods which he 
faid I had ; I pretended not to underftand neither Turkish nor Arabick, it be- 
ing beft to do fo ('when one is known to be a Franck^Yïox many reafons. I 
told him then by an Interpreter that I had not two load of Goods, and that 
they were onely Books : By chance there was a Syrian Merchant there, 
called Codgia Elias ^ who is very powerfull in Moful and a friend of the Cafu- 
cms, and he had bufinefs with the Cuftomer ; this Codgia feeing me, took 
two Fiafires out of his Purlè which he threw to the Cuftomer, praying him 
to let me go for that ; but this(generofity of a man whom I knew notj making 
me diftruft him, I bid tell him that if he laid out any thing for me, I could 
not repay it ; this put the Cuftomer into fo great a paflion, that having abu- 
fed my fervant with his tongue, he lent him away to prifon ; for my part, I 
ftayed there, and he ftill treated me calmly and civilly enough. At length 
Codgia Elias, offering to pull out more Money ; I made him plainly to un- 
derftand by Signs, that I would not repay it ; wherefore be put up his 
Money again, and departed not well latisfied with me ; though he brought 
my Servant back from prifon again, to whom the Cuftomer gave leave to go 
to my Lodging for one of my Books that he might fee it ; he came back and 
Father John with him, who ordered matters fo that I came off for two 
Ftafires. I thought it might not be unprofitable to relate thefe things, which Profitable ad- 
feem to be but trifles, and yet may ferve for a leffbn to the Francks, who ^'^e. 
travel in Turky, when they find themfelves in the like Circumftances, and in 
places where there is no Conful nor Merchants ; for where there is any, it is 
beft to let them to whom you are recommended ad, becaufe they know the 
humour of the Cuftomers, and how they are to be dealt with. Not that I 
pretend that my condud (hould ferve for a model to others, but I think 
thefe are hints that can do no hurt, and may do good; feeing when one is 
inftruded before hand, he may better take his meafures as to what he is to 
fay and do upon the like occafions : Formy own part,^I thank God,j I came 
otif very well in my own way, and I always perceived, that one muft be as 
fiov»^ as he can in putting his hand in his Pocket in that Countrey : Becaufe 
when you are known to be a Franck, if you pull out your Money as foon as 
they demand it, they never leave off as long as they can fqueeze one penny 
more from you. The Name of a Franck fo tickles them, that when any 
fuch fall into their hands, they drain from him all that they can, imagining 
that Francks never travel but with Pijrfes full of Chequins. One muft like- . 
wife have a fpecial care not to let them fee Gold, but onely white Money, 
and as little of that too as may be, and in fhort, one fhould have the cunning 
to pafs for a poor Man. And therefore in thefe my laft Travels I wore al- 
ways mean Apparel, fo long as I was in Turky : The beft way in the world 
would be not to pafs for a Franck, if it could poffibly be done, and I was fo 
well difguifed when I parted from Legem, (that underftanding Turkifh,) I 
(iicceeded in it; not in Alexandria where I was too well known, fince the ^ 
firft time I had been there, but at Rojjetto, and Saide ; but from that time 
forward, (travelling always with thofe who had feen me with Franks^ they 
prefently blazed it abroad that I was a Franck. 
Â'îojul hath five Gates, befides that which looks to the South, called Bagdad q^^^j 
Capfi, becaufe that is the Gate by which they go to Bagdad. There is a Moful. 
Mofque by it which formerly was very great, but the Turks have demolifhed 
a good part of it, leaft if the Ferfians fhould befiege that Town, (as they al- 
ways do when they are Mafters of Bagdad, ) they might make that Mofque 
a Caftle to batter the Town from. The infide of it is entirely faced, from the 
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