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leftial GlobCj and redrified that^and fhewed Iiim iiO¥/ ail the 
noted Conftellations were exactly defcribed, and how they 
moved regularly upon their poles, as in the Heaveiis , fome 
rifing, and others letting, fome always above the Horizon, 
and others always under,in an oblique fphere,and particularly 
what Stars wouiid rile that night with us at fuch an hour 5 the 
man feemed to be raviflied with the curiofity of it, turning 
this Globe alfo fever al times together with his finger, and ta- 
king a mighty pleafure in viewing the motion of it ; and yet 
this filly Animal paft for a Conjurer among the Turks ^ and was 
lookt upon as one, that could foretell the events of battels^ 
the fates of Empires, and the end of the World. 
They have no genius for Sea-voyages, and confe^uentiy 
are very raw and unexperienced in the art of Navigation, 
fcarce venturing to fail out of fight of land. I fpeak of the 
natural Turks ^ who trade either into the hlack Sea or fome part 
of the Morea^ or hQtWecn Confiantimple and Alexandria J and not 
of the Pyrats of Barharj, who are for the mofi: part Renegado's, 
and learnt their skill in Cbnfiendow^ which they exercife fo 
much to the terror and damage of it. A Turktjh compafs con- 
fifts but of eight points, the four Cardinal and four Collate- 
ral 5 they being at a mighty lofs how to fail by a fide wind, 
when by hauhng their failes fharp,they might lye their courfe, 
and much more, when they are in the winds eye, not know- 
ing how to make tacks and bordS; but choofe rather to make 
haft into fome neighbouring Port, till the wind blows fair. 
An Englijlj and Turkijh Veflel both bound for the bay of Salcmh, 
at the time of the Grand Signors being there, paft together 
out of the Hellefpont ; but foul weather hapning, the Turks gott 
into Lemnos 3 while our men kept at Sea ana purfued their 
Toyage, and after three v/eeks ftay returned back to us, ob- 
lerving in their way , that the Turks remained in the fame 
place where they left them, for want of a fore-wind to put to 
Sea in. 
They trouble not themftlves with reading the Hiftories of 
other Nations or of antient times, much lefs with the ftudy 
of Chronology^ without which Hiftory is very lame and imper- 
fed: \ which is the caufe of thofe ridiculous and childilh mi- 
ftakes, which pafs current and uncontradicted axiiong them. 
For inftance, they make Job one of S6/f?;25;^i- Judges andfl/'^^^?^ 
der) Alexander the Great Captain General of his Army. They 
puniber ThiU^ of Macdon among the anceftors of our B. Sa^i^ 
