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'Tray els into the Levant. Part IL 
of her Husband and Relations xhat went to her Heart, and only expeâed an 
opportunity of being revenged, made him anfwer that (he would not Marry him, 
unlefs lirrt he killed Aly^ which at hrft he rtfufed, retaining flillfome Sentiments 
of AfFeâion towards his Ma fier : but ("he pcrfifting in her refolution, Love prevailed 
in the Heart of the Traitor, and one day when Aly was at Prayers in the Mofque, 
he (tabbed him with a Dagger : he was immediately apprehended by thofe thatt 
were prefentj who would have cut him in pieces upon the fpot, if ^ly had not 
forbidden them to do him any hurt, faying that if he were cured of that Wound, 
he knew how to punifii him in an extraordinary manner, and if he died of it, he 
would only have thetTi to give him one blow, a few days after /^/y being dead, his 
Servants killed Ebrv-MouUgem-Meurat^ atone blow of a Sword, therein obeying 
their Mafters orders pun6i:ually v and on that day yearly, they publickly burn the 
Figure of that fame EbwMouldgem Mourat. 
The FeaR of They celebrated alfotheFeaft of one Omar Kefchdgiadet the Nintecnth Sep- 
0»tf>" ¥jÇch- timber^ which was the Tenth of the month Rebiulervel » that Feaft is in honour 
giads. ^£ illuftrious Miller of that name, whofe Hiftory I could not learn. Befides 
the Feaft I have mentioned, they havefome others, as that of the great B^ir^zwi 
that of ^smcjuadir, the place where Muhammed chofe ^ly for his Succeffbur, 
in prcfence of forty thoufand men i the Nenrouz or New Year, and fomc others. 
The Formati- The Perfians in their Creed have a pleafant imagination concerning the death of 
on of man, men. They fay that every one muft come and die in the place where the Angel 
^tid where he took the Earth of which he hath been made,' thinking that one of thefe Spirits has 
days. ^° ^-^^^ '■^^^ Forming the Humane Creature, which he doth by mingling a little 
Earth with the Seed. 
CHAP. XIV. 
The Continuation of the Ohfervations of Ifpahan. 
Of JcwSy Guebres, Banians,. W Arme- 
nians. 
Liberty of 'TpHE Perfians give full liberty of Confcienceto all Strangers of whatfoever Re- 
Confciencc is X ligion they be, and fome years ago it was thought a very ftrange proceeding 
Pir/ia, in an Eatemad Doulet, when he undertook to oblige all the Jen>s to turn Mahometans, 
^em. accompli(hing of that he ufed all his endeavours, fparing neither mild ways 
nor violence, for bringing about his defign i nay, he procured an Order from the 
Prince, prohibiting the exercife of the Jemflj Religion within his Territories : 
but notwithftanding all that, he could not fucceed in it, for having caufed them 
to be ftridly obferved, they found that what external Profeffion ïo ever they made 
of Mahometanifm^ they ftill praétifed Judaifm ■■> fo that there was a necelTity of 
fuffering them to be again bad Jetvs^ iînce they could not make good Mnfulmans 
of them. However thefe who live at Ifpahan are beggarly poor, and not very 
^tvps at Iff A' numerous, becaufe there is nothing for them to be done there : they pay. the King 
hot. yearly a Chequin a Head, and are obliged to wear a little fquare piece of ftufFi two 
or three Fingers broad , fewed to their Cuba or Gown in the middle of their 
Breaft, about two Fingers above the Girdle, and it matters not what fluff that 
piece be of, provided the colour be different from that of the Cloaths, to which it 
is fewed. 
Ihc Guebres, There are ftill in Perfia, and particularly in Kerman, people who Adore the Fire, 
as the Ancient Ptrfians did, and thefe are called Gmbres. They are known by a 
dark Yellow colour which the menaffed in their Cloaths, and the women by their 
Veil, none but they wearing that colour i befides the Guehrijh women, have their 
Faces, all naked, and never cover them, and commonly they are very Handfom. 
Ihzk Gmbres have a Language and Charaâerî, which nobody underiiands but 
themfelves. 
