Partit. Travels into the h^v A !i T. 
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After all, they are very exaft, in having all the pieces of their attire of dif- 
ferent Colours : For example, the Caba of one Colour, the Jafi a cor of ano- Every piece of 
ther, the ftockings of another, and the fhoes of another. Apparel of 
The Per/^w Apparel feemed to me to be more gay than that of the Tarks, f^^^l^^^^^ 
but it is more clutterly and lefs èommodious. With RTurkijh Habit one is im- ^"^^^^ ^^^^-^ 
mediately dreffed, whereas in this, there muft always be a Servant ready to morecommo- 
tye the firings of the Caba: and therefore the moft part tye but one of them, dious than the 
and leave the reft hanging. Perfian, 
The Perjian Habit is likewilè dearer, and neverthelefs they often change 
Cloaths ; whereas the Turks wear theirs feveral years, and the Terfiajis no 
longer than they find a fpot upon them. To the end they may be always The Perjîans 
neat, they ftrip themfelves afToon as they come hom,e, and change a Caba neat, 
every day, and at fix Months end take one of thofe Cabas that they have 
worn already, which is thought to be new, becaufe men do not remember 
they have isen it before ; they value a man for his neatnels and good 
Cloaths. 
They wear rings on their Fingers fet with precious Stones ; but, ( what The Perfians 
feems to me to be very odd, j the men, even the King himfelf, wear no Gold rings, 
rings upon their Fingers, butonely Silver, and none but Women wear Gold 
rings, the men imagining that they are concerned in honour not to wear 
them : I know not what reafon they have for it, and they themfelves can 
give no good one. 
All, both high and low, rub their hands and feet with Hanna^ and chiefly The Perfians 
in Winter ; they fay that it is not fo much for ornament, bur becaufe it pre- P^'"* their 
vents the Chaps which are commoly caufed by the cold ; and for that efFeâ:, 
they work the Hanna in water to the confiftence of morter that is fbmewhat 
hard, and having wet their hands a little with fair water, they fpread upon 
them the Hanna wrought in this manner, and then wrap them up in lin- Hanna, a dye. 
nen, which they keep on all Night. They who cannot reach fo high as to 
dawb over their hands with it, apply it at leaft to their fingers ends and 
heels. When this ftufFhath been well applied to the hands it laftsfome weeks, 
provided they be not waflied, forelfe it will quickly be gone. 
The Perjians fuffer not their beard to grow long as the Turks do, but they The Beard, 
do notfhaveit; they clip it onely with Cizzers,leaving it half a fingers breadth 
long, fo that their Chin appears all black, and in a manner prickly, but 
they take fpecial care to have thick and long Muftachoes. They leave a tuff 
of hair on the Crown of their heads as the Turks do. 
When they wear Mourning for any deceafed Relation, their Mourning The Perfians. 
confifts in a Girdle, the two ends whereof hang down to their Stomack where "mourning, 
they crofs them- As to the Women when they mourn for their dead, they ' 
do it for a long while, as well as in Turky and all over the Levant : For 
during feveral Months, as often as any woman comes to vifit them, they re- 
new their lamentations, fome weeping, others rehcarfing the praifes of the 
deceafed, with a low Voice and fighing; but in fuch atone, as one would 
think they were a finging, and others howl and cry as loud as they can ; 
in fo much that all thefe different Voices mingling together make a kind of a 
Mufick, that moves thofe who are not concerned to laughter, rather than 
compaffion, and which by the continuance of it becomes very uneafie to 
their Neighbours ; I have fometimes heard them make a noife in this manner 
a whole Day and a Night without intermiffion, Befides that, every time 
they go to the grave of the party deceafed, nay after the year is out, they 
renew their Cries, as if he were but juft then departed : For the men, when 
any of their Relations die, they rend their Caba before, as a fign of grief, 
and for the fpace of feven Days give alms, which the women like wife do. 
All the women of Perfm are pleafantly apparelled ; when they are abroad The Apparel 
in the Streets, all both rich and poor, are covered with a great Veil or Sheet of the Perfian 
of very fine white Cloath, of vi/hich one half like a forehead -Cloath comes women, 
down to the Eyes, and going over the head, reaches down to their heels, 
and the other half muffles up their face below the Eyes, and being faftened 
with a Pin to the left fide of the head, falls down to their very fhoes, even 
covering their hands, with which thy hold that Cloath by the two fides ; fo 
that 
