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wagons, but that they are latticed to let in the air (for no 
one muft prefume to ftare or fcarce look upon the womeo, 
much lefs muft they themfelves fufFer their faces to be feen 
in this jealous Country) fhe out of curiofity looking through 
the holes, faw a poor Chn(tian Have in a Ihop, where iugar and 
fuchlike wares were fold. Upon her return fhe fent one of 
her Eunuchs to enquire for the perfon, and to ask him feve- 
ral queftions about his Country, relations, friends, and the 
time when and how long he had been a Have : his anfwers 
were fo particular and fatisfad:ory,that fhe was foon con vinc't 
of the truth and certainty of her apprehenfions , when fhe 
firft caft her eyes upon him, that he was her brother, and ac- 
cordingly it proved fo. Whereupon acquainting the Empe- 
ror witn it, fhe immediately redeemed him from his Patron, 
and having made the poor wretch turn Turk^ got him conii- 
derably preferred. 
The Baffa's for the moft part are the fons of Chriftians, taken 
into the Seraglio^ near the Emperors perfon, and fo are pre- 
fer d to connderable Governments, or elfe they raiie them- 
felves by their Condu6t and Valour. Mahomet Baffa in the 
time of Achmet^ whofe eldeft daughter he married, was the 
firft natural Tmk^ that was made chief Vizir, having before 
been Captain BalTa. The chief Vizir Mahomet Ku^nuU^ (who 
fettled the Empire in the minority of this Emperor, when it 
was ready to be fhaken into pieces, and diflblved by feveral 
powerful factions in the State, and by the mutinies and dif- 
contents of the famx^a-ms and S^ahis , who drove different 
ways) was an Albanefe by birth, the fon of a Greek Prieft, whom 
out of the height of his zeal for M.ihomet^ he made turn Turk 
in his old age, and converted the Chrtfi 'mn Church in the Vil- 
lage where he was born, into a Mofch. This man alfb for- 
bad the Der^ifes to dance in a ring and turn round, which be- 
fore was their folemn pradtife at fet times before the people, 
which they would do fo long,till they were giddy by this fwift 
circular motion,andfell down in a fwoun,and then oftentimes 
upon their recovery from fuch trances they pretended to re- 
velation. The Churchmen are not very kind to his memory, 
looking upon him as a man of little or no religion ; and they 
give out,that if he had lived Jie would have forbid their calhng 
to prayers from t^e fpires of their Mofchs, and hanging out 
Lamps ; both which they look upon as folemn and eilential 
to the exercife of religion j but he as the cfFed of bigotry and 
I'uperftition. They 
