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give her eafe and recover her : which he did accordingly ; 
for whicli he received an embroidered hancherchief inftead 
of a fee, and gained the reputation of having done a mighty 
cure. 
They have little of ingenious or folid learning among them; 
their chief ftudy, next to the Alcoran^ being metaphyhcal ni- 
ceties about the Attributes of God^ or elfe the maintenance 
of other odd fpeculative notions and tenents, derived down 
to them from fome of their famed mafters and holy men, 
whom they pretend to follow. Their knowledge of the mo- 
tion of the heavens, for which the Arabians and the other 
eaftern Nations have been fo defervedly famous , as their 
Aftronomical tables ot the Longitude and Latitude of the 
fixed Stars , and of the appulfe of the moon to them, fully 
evince, is now very mean, and is chiefly ftudyedfor the ufe 
of Judiciary Aftrology. The great inltrument they mr.ke 
ufeof is an Aftrolabe, with which they make very imperfect 
oblervations, having no fuch thing as a Quadrant or Sextant, 
much lefs a Telefcope, or any mechanical engine , to di- 
red: and afiift them in their calculation Their skill in Gec- 
grafbj h as inconliderable ; I remember I beard the Captain 
Bajla, whom they flile Admiral of the black and white Seas, 
meaning the Eumm and the Mediterranean^ ask this hliy queftion, 
whether England v^q^vq. out ol the ftraits: and at another time 
the Qajmacan or Governor ofConfi^antmople.hesLnng th'2it England 
was an Ifland, defired to know, how many miles it was about,, 
in order, we fuppofed,to make an eftimate of our Kings great- 
nefs and ftrength by the extent and compafs of it. 
One of the great Aftrologers of Conji-araimpk^ having heard 
that I had a pair of Globes in my chamber, made me a vilit 
on purpoie to fee their contrivance, being introduced by a 
worthy Gentleman of our own Nation After the firfl: cere- 
monies were over, I took my Terreftial Globe, and rectified 
it to the polition of the place, and pointed to the leveral 
circles both without and upon it, and told him in fhort the 
feveral ufes of them : then mewed him how Confiantmople bear- 
ed from Candia at that time belieged, Cair^ Alepp, Mecca and 
other chief places of the Empire, with the other parts of the 
World : at which he was mightily furprifed to fee the whole 
Earth and Sea reprelented in that figure and in fo narrow a 
compafs, and pleafed himfelf with turning the Globe round 
feveral times together. Afterwards I fet before him the Ce- 
leftial 
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