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The Dervifes generally are melancHoly.and place the great* 
eft part of their Religion in Abftinence and other Severities. 
Some cut their flefh, others vow not to fpeak for fix or fe- 
ven years, or all their hves long, tho never fo much provo- 
ked or diftreffed. Their Garments are made of a courfe 
fort of Wool! or Goats Hair : they are tied up by the vow 
of their Order ever from marrying. Several of this Sed; 
in the heigth of their religious Phrenzy have attempted up- 
on the lives of the Emperors themfelves, { at whofe Go- 
vernment they have taken difguft j as Mahomet the fecond, 
and Achmet^ as if fuch defperate Attempts were fatal to Bi- 
gots in all Religions. 
They pay a mighty Veneration to any Relique of Mahomet^ 
his Banner is ftill prefervedin the Treafury of the -Sor^^Z/c, 
and is lookt upon as the great Security of the Empire. 
They believe that it was fent from Heaven, and conveyed 
into the hands of Mahomet^ by the Angel Gahnel, as a Pledge 
and fign of Succefs and Vi(3:ory in his Battels againft the 
Chnfitms^ and all Other Enemies of the Mufdman Faith. It 
was fent to Candta to encourage the Soldiers to endure the fa- 
tigue of that longand.tedious Siege s and when it was brought 
thence after the furrendry of that City, to be depofited in 
its ufiial place, the Viz.ir gave feveral chrifiian Slaves, that 
row'd in the Gaily that was fraught with this holy Ware, 
their liberty. They pretend to have feme Rags of Mabc^ 
mets Veft, to which they afcribe great Virtue. In confi- 
dence of v/hich, the. Emperor Achmn^ in the time of a great 
Fire, which raged at Comfantmofk^ when all other means taiFd, 
dipt part of them in water to be fprinkled upon the fire to 
rebate the fury of it- 
Next to the Mufti or CaMe skins are the MoUas^ of which 
thefe four are the chiefeft in Dignity. The MoUa of Galata, 
Adnanofk^ Aleppo^ Fmfa ; and after them are' reckoned thele 
eight, Stamhol Epkendi, Lartfa, Mifir or Cairo^ Sham or Damajcus^ 
Diarbekir or Mejopotamia, Cuiaia^ Sophia^ FbtUppi, 
The Priefts have no habit pecuhar to their Profefliion, 
whereby they areiiiftinguiih'd from others- If they are put 
from their Mofchs for mifcarriage or negled: of doing their 
duty, or if they think fit to refign and be Priefts no longer, 
they may betake thenifelves without any fcandal to fecular 
Employments, their former Charad;er and Quality wholly 
ceafing. V/hile they remain Priefts, they counterfeit a more 
then 
