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ground 5 they having no occalion of Chairs, Couches 
Stools, or Tables 3 their poftures within doors, being diffe- 
rent from ours. They have no Hangings, but their walls 
are whited and fet off with painting, onlyadorn'd with a 
kind of Porcelane 5 no Beds clos'd with Curtains. 
They feal not with Wax, but Ink, at the bottom of the 
Paper, the Emperor's Name being ufually written with 
flouriihes and in perplext characters : Nor have they any 
Coats of Arms upon their Seals, there being no fuch thing 
as Gentility among them. 
Some of them, notwithftanding their zeal for Mahor/iet 
and the Rehgion by him eftablifh'd, retain not only a fa- 
vourable and honourable opinion of our BlefTed Saviour^ 
but even place fome kind of confidence in the ufage of 
his Name, or of the words of the Gofpel, tho it may fbem 
to be wholly in the way of Superftition. Thus in their 
Amulets, which they call Chatmmh^ being Uttle bits ofVz- 
per of two or three fingers bredth, rolid up in pieces of 
Silk, containing feveral fhort prayers or lentences out of 
the Alaran^^ with feveral Circles with other figures, they 
ufually infcribe the holy and venerable Name of JESUS ^ 
or the figure of, the Crofs, ox the firft words of St. Johns 
Gofpel, and the-like. They hang them about their necks, 
or place them under their Arm-pits, or in their Bofom near 
their Hearts ( being the fame with what the Greeks call 
h^QhrTna ) and efpecially when they go to War, as a prefer- 
vative againft the dangers of it ; and indeed againfl any 
misfortune whatfoever .Some have themfow'd within their 
Cap5 : and I heard of a Turk who was fo fuperflitious here- 
in^ that he always pluckt it off, and was uncover d, when 
he had occafion to make water. Some are fuch Bigots in 
their Religion, and fo furious againfl Chriftians, that not 
only they treat them with all imaginable fcorn and con- 
tempt, but take it ill to be falam'd or faluted by them, 
as if it were the effed: of fawcinefs or unbecoming familia- 
rity. Their mahce againft the Chriftians mai' es them envy 
the rich Furs they line their Vefts with, and it is a trouble 
to thefe hypocritical Zealots to fee the Fra/^cs ride upon 
their fine Arabian Horfes. 
The refpe(St which they fliew the AUorm is wonderful : 
they dare not open the Leaves of it with unwafhen hands, 
according to the advice or command written in Arabic upon 
the 
