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bathe in it ; what is drunk, is receiv’d from a Spout 
conveyed into the Bath ; I gave a Piece of five Sols to 
^ Turk, who holding it under the Spout, to let the 
Water fall upon it, and rubbing it in the mean Time 
with his Fingers, gilded it for me in half a Minute. 
The fecond is Barat Degrimene or thtBath of the Powder 
Mill, arifing in an open Pond near the High-way, and its 
Waters being mix’d with thofe of the Pond, makes one 
Part of it of a whitifh Colour, and cleat in another, as 
likewife cold and hot in feveral Parts ; being conveyed 
crofs the Highway into a Powder-Mill it becomes ufe- 
ful in making of Gunpowder, whence it got its Name. 
The third is Cuzzoculege, the Little Bath, or the Bath 
cf the Saint, being kept by Turkijh Monks. The Wa-, 
ter near the Spring-head is fo hot, as not to be fit for 
Ufe, but being conveyed through one Bath into ano- 
ther, becomes tolerable. The Water differs neither in 
Smell, Tafte, or Colour, from common Water, being 
without the ieaft Sediment, except that the Sides of the 
Bathing-Room are cover’d with a green fpongy Sub- 
ftance. The fourth is called Caplia, a noble Strudure, 
of an odogonal Figurcj with a very handfome Bath in 
the Middle, furrounded with a Trench of Water to 
bathe the Feet in : On each Side it has a Niche, wherein 
is a Fountain. In the Anti-chamber, where the Cloaths 
are left, is alfo a beautiful Fountain, with a Stone Ba- 
fon i the Water of this Bath is alfo very hot, and not 
without a petrefying Juice. The fifth is the Bath of 
Velibey, the nobleft of all the reft^ having a fpacious 
Anti-chamber ; the Bathing-room is alfo very capa- 
cious, high arch’d, and advanced with one great Cu- 
polo in the Middle, juft over the great round Bath, 
befides four leffer ones at the four Corners, over as 
many private Bathing-Rooms, where the Turks take off 
all the Hair of their Bodies with Pftlothrum, mix’d with 
Soap, except their Beards. The middle Cupolo is fup- 
ported by twelve Pillars, betwixt eight whereof are 
Fountains of hot Water, and between the reft Places 
to fit down, where the Barbers and Bath-men attend. 
In each of thefe Places are two Stone Cifterns, one for 
cold and the other for hot Water, to be mixed as every 
one thinks fit, the Water being not fit to be ufed with- 
out the Addition of cold Water : For the reft, it has a 
ftrong fufphurous Smell, . and contains a petrefying 
Juice. The Mornings are appointed for the Men to 
bathe in, and the Afternoons for the Women. If you 
have a Mind to bathe, you are brought into the Anti- 
chamber of the Bath, where being furnifhed with a 
Cloth and Apron by thofe that attend, you lay by your 
Cloaths, and fo enter the Great Bath, where fitting 
down on the Side or between the Pillars near a Foun- 
tain, you are well rubb’d, with your Hands and Arms 
ftretch’d out, by the Barber, after w'hich you bathe. If 
you pleafe, or the Cuftom of your Country requires if, 
you may have your Head fiiaved, and your Beard alfo, 
except the upper Lip ; next the Barber rubs your 
Breaft, Back, Arms and Legs with a Hair Cloth, either 
fitting or lying upon your Belly ; then having wafhed 
your Head with Soap, and thrown cold Water upon 
you all over, you walk in the Steem of the Bath for 
fomeTime. This City is generally called Offen by the 
Germans ; fome trace the Original as far as to a 
Brother of the famous Attila, called Buda. And to 
confefs the Truth, the Situation of this Place upon the 
Banks of the Danube, where it gathers its Water in one 
entire Channel, and that upon an eafy Afcent of rifing 
Hills, from whence there is a Profpedl out of many of 
the Creeks crofs the Danube, into a beautiful Country, 
and of the City of Pefi ; fo excellent a Situation, I fay, 
added to the Advantage of its hot Springs, might well 
invite the Conquering Huns to prefer this Place for 
the Building of a City, before all their other conquered 
Countries. The City of Buda was the ordinary Refi- 
dence of the Hungarian Kings, till it was conquer’d by 
Sdlyman the Magnificent, the 13 th of Auguji 1541. There 
is another Place called Old Offen, fuppofed to be that 
2iViC\QVit Sicarabria, where the Sicambriun Soldiers had their 
Qiiarters in the Time_ of the Romans. Here fome An- 
tiquities and inferiptions have been difeover’d for-' 
merly. 
Upon the Eaft-fide of the Danube, dlreffly oppofite 
to Buda ftands Peft, in a Plain, of a Quadrangular Fi- 
gure. This City imparts its Name to the whole Coun- 
try,* Or Comitatus Pefihienjis, (Hungary being divided 
into Counties like England) and is joined to Buda by a 
Bridge of Boats above half a Mile in Length. 
I was fomethihg furprized at firft, when I faw the 
Turkijh Women wear long Breeches, reaching almoft, 
down to their Feet. Over thefe they wear their Shifts^ 
and over thefe a Kind of a long Garment ; their Head- 
drefs covers their Faces, except the Eyes, almoft like 
our Penitents. Whilft we ftaid at Buda, we took a 
View of one of the Turkifh Convents, where we were 
entertained in a large Room, not unlike a Chapel, with 
Melons, and fome other Fruit, by the Monks. The 
Superior, called Julpapa, i. e. Father of the Rofe, having 
a Girdle about his Middle, emboffed before with a 
white Stone called Galabiites or Milk-ftone, bigger than 
the Palm of a Hand. They have a fuperftitious Opi- 
nion, Mahomet turned a whole River Arabia into 
a Kind of Stone, From the Houfe where we lodged, 
we had a fair Profpedt of the Danube, and were often 
vifited by divers Chiaufes {Turkifh Meffengers.) The 
Mafter of the Houfe being a Rafcian, was thought to 
hold a feefet Correfpondence with a Francifean Fryer of 
Pejl, and with fome other Perfons of Note at Gomorrah, 
Raab, and Vienna : We were alfo very civilly enter- 
tain’d by Mortizan Ephendi, who had been in Quality 
of Envoy-Extraordary at the Court of Vienna, and would 
needs have me fit upon a Stool, brought in for that 
Purpofe, being fenfible that their Way of fitting crofs- 
legg’d would not be very agreeable to me. Among 
many other Queftions, he ask’d me. What w^as tho 
King of Poland*^ Name and when I told him it was 
Michael ^ kVifnowitski, he replied, Michael is a good 
Name, it is the Name of the greateft Saint in Heaven, 
except Mary. * 
9. From Buda we travel’d by Land to the Eaft, and 
pairing by Ham Zabbi Palanka and by Erzin, came to 
Adorn, call’d Tzan Kurteren, i. e. Anima liberata, by the 
Turks j which Name was given it by Solyman the Mag- 
nificent, becaufe here he made the firft Halt with his 
Army, after his Retreat from Vienna. Hence we came 
to Pentole or Pentolen Palanka, which fome are of Opi- 
nion was the old Potentiana, where the Huns were over- 
thrown by Macrinus and Tetricus, the two Roman Ge- 
nerals. Some will have this to have happened near 
Adorn. From hence we went on to Fodwar in Sight of 
Colocza, feated on th« other Side of the Danube in the 
Road to Temefwar, and fo further by Pax, or Paxi, to 
Tolna, the old Altinum or Altinium, near which the 
Huns fought a fecond Battle, and routed the Romans 
with the Lofs of 40,000 Men on their Side. It is in- 
habited by Hungarians and Rafeians, who are often at 
Variance. Thence we came to Jeni Palanka, where we 
pafs’d the River Sarvizza (or the Urpanus) w'hich rifes 
near Efperies, and paffing by Stulweijfenburgh {Alba- Re^ 
galis) joins its Current below it with the Danube. 
From thence, by Setzar to Botofeck, and fo to Setz, 
a large Town, near which we faw the Ruins of an old 
Caftle upon a Hill, enclofed with Pallifadoes. Here is 
a new Caravanfera. Hence we went on to Mohatz, but 
before we came to this Place, paffing by a fmall Brido-e 
over the Brook Curajfe, we took a View of the Place 
where the unfortunate Hungarian, King Lewis, after the 
Lofs of the Battle near Mohatz, fought OSlober 29, 
1526, was plunged in the Flight with his Horfe in the 
Mud, and miferably perifhed. His Body being difeo- 
ver’d by Cotrifeus, who was near him when he was 
drowned, to the Hungarians, it was taken up and bu- 
ried at Alba Regalis, the Place of Sepulture of the Hun- 
garian Kings. Near this Place we met with a Cara- 
van of two hundred Perfons under a Guard of Ja- 
nizaries, and frequently upon the Road we faw nu- 
merous Droves of Oxen driving towards Vienna, belong- 
ing to the Eaftern Company there, who, as they have- 
the Monopoly of Oxen in that City, fo they have Li- 
berty to buy them in the Grand Seignior’s Dominions. 
The fame Day we faw the City of Five Churches {^in- 
que Eccle/ia) and Zigetb to the Right of us. This laft is a 
ftrono: 
