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the Covet) Let no one touch thu Book^ hut he that is clean. They 
* kifs it, and bend their heads and touch their eyeswith it, 
both when they open it and fliut it. 
The Jamz.aries^ when they attend upon Chrifiian Amhaf^a- 
dors to their Audience; feem to appear in their Bravery, and 
in a Habit far from that of a Solclier, being without either 
Fire- Arms or Swords ( which later are not worn but in 
time of fervice, or when they are upon a march, or embo- 
died, wearing a Cap made of Camels hair, with a broad 
flap dangling behind, a gilt embroider'd wreath running 
round it, and an oblong piece of Brafs rifing up from the 
middle of their forehead near a foot, with a great Club in 
their hand, like inferior Officers of the Civil Government. 
But when they are in the Camp, they throw off their upper 
Veft, and Turbants, which they wear at all other ulual 
times, as troublefom, and put on a Ftfs^ or red Cap, which 
fits clofe to their head, and tuck up their Duliman or long 
Coat, to their Girdle, that they may be the more quick 
and expedite in their Charge. 
They affed: finery and neatnefs in their Clothes and 
Shalliesy not fo much asafpotto be feen upon them, and 
in rainy or fufpicious weather, are very careful how they 
go abroad without their Tamurlkks^ which is a kind of Coat 
they throw over their heads at fuch times. 
Their Pans and Difhes are for the moil part of Copper, 
but fo handfomly Tinned over, that they look like Sil- 
ver, 
There are thoufands of Gypfies or ZinganJes.^ in Turkey^ 
who live the fame idle nafty kind of life, as they do in Chri^ 
fimdom^ and pretend to the fame art of telling Fortunes ; 
and are lookt upon as the offscouring of mankind. Jt is 
accounted the extremeft point of human mifery to be a 
Have to any of this fort of Cattel. 
The H^^^i, or Pilgrims, that have been at^^^^^ and Medina^ 
forbear to drink Wine moft rehgioufly, out of a perfwafion, 
that one drop would efface all the merits of that tioub^efome 
and expenfiye journey j and fome have been pofleft with fuch 
a madzeal> that they have bhnded themfelves after their 
been bleft with the fight of Mahomet s Sepulcher. 
After Jatz^th, that is, an hour and a half in the night, 
throughout the whole year, there is as great a filence in 
the ftreets as ^t midnight : the Emperor Achmet in the 
year 
