Chap. I. to the L 
Zazaje^ (hooting v/ith an Harquebufe running. The 
other kurks make a great Diverfion of Puppet-Shews, 
which, though performed a different Way from ours, 
yet are more pleafing ; their Songs are pretty, but very 
obfcene j and fo are many of their Pqffures, . , 
3. The ‘Turkijh Language is a Primitive and Oriental 
Tongue, and though not very copious, yet is grave and 
pleafant, and with a little Supply from the Arabian and 
Perfian, is rich and elegant enough. The T^urks are 
not -much addifted to Sciences, yet have Do6lors or 
their Law, who explain it in all the Senfes that can be 
oiven it. Some affeft Alfrology and Poetry, in which 
They have pretty Conceits, but they generally ufe the 
Perftan Language, and the Tone they fing in is agree- 
able enough through Cuftom. Their Mufick is a little 
Lute with three Strings, and the Flute. Many among 
them pretend to Fortune-telling, and have good Luck 
at it. They divine by the Alcoran^ and four Arrows, 
which they call confulting the Book, and naming two 
of the Arrows Chrijlians, and the other two, Turks, 
make them fight by reading the Alcoran ; if the Chrif- 
tians overcome, they look upon the A£fion, whether in 
War or Peace, which they are to undertake, to be un- 
lucky, and fo will not enterprize any thing. They never 
go out to War, bur they make this Experiment. They 
Sfo divine with Beans, by taking out an uncenain 
Number, and then counting them, confult the Book to 
fee what the Number fignifies; and by a Piece of Tim- 
ber almofl fquare, which they call Eliph, which having 
Letters written on each Side, he that feeks his Fortune, 
takes it, and rolling it three Times, puts the Letters 
together, and then confults the Fal, 01 Fortune-Book, 
what the three Letters fignify. 
They have few or no Phyficians, being very healthy, 
becaufe of their frequent Bathings and Temperance. 
When they are Tick, they make Ufe of their common 
Receipts, and, if they fail, confult the Je-ws, or fome 
Renagado Chriftians, who learn their Skill at the Coft 
of many. When they have the Head-ach, they fca- 
rify, lance, or fear the Place, and that cures them. In 
other Diftempers they alfo ufe Burning, and endure a 
live Match applied to the Place with Patience. Doubt- 
lefs, Phyficians might do them more Service, and help 
them at an eafier Rate ; but they are fuch bad Pay- 
maflers of Men for their Skill, and befides, if a Phy- 
fician fliould be unfuccefsful, and a Patient die under 
his Hands, they will accufe him of killing him, which 
is a Difcouragement to the Art among them. 
4. The Religion of the Turks is full of Fopperies 
and Abfurdities, of which it wmuld be no hard Matter 
to convince them •, but that Mahomet, to prevent any 
better Information, hath commanded, that whofoevcr 
contradidleth it fliould be put to Death. Mahomet was 
an Arab, and illiterate, a Driver of Camels, and a Man 
of no Morals ; but flriking in with a Greek Monk, who 
had forfaken his Monaftery, and had fome Smattering 
of Learning, he was by him enabled to lay the Foun- 
dation of that great Seft, which hath hitherto infcded 
fo large a Part of the World. He made Ufe of the 
Old and New Tejiament in compofing the Alcoran, that 
he might draw both Jews and Chrijiians to fabmit to it, 
though both are confufedly applied 5 but the Turks 
hold, that it was written in Heaven by God himfelf, 
and brought Chapter by Chapter to Mahomet by the 
Angel Gabriel. No Chriftian may touch it, and the 
Turks, by reading it merit, in their Opinion, Paradife. 
It is written in pure Arabick, and the Turks believe it 
cannot be turn’d into any other Language ; and for 
that Reafon they account the Perfians Hereticks, becaufe 
they have tranflated it into their Tongue. 
This Book contains all their Laws, both Canon and 
Civil, but is full of Rabbinical Fables. According to 
this" Book the Turks believe in and worfliip God, the 
Eternal and Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, 
but they will not acknowledge a Trinity, nor allow any 
Images in his Worlhip, either painted or graved. They 
have a peculiar Fondnefs for Predeftination which they 
extend even to the mod indifferent Affions. They are 
firmly perfuaded, that under the Reign of every Em- 
peror the State will infallibly and perpetually have ei-. 
ther a dilaftrous or happy Fate. That Death is fatal 
both in War and Peace, and therefore as they willingly 
take up Arms, believing that if they are killed by their 
Enemies, they (bould lome Way or other have died at 
Home, fo they take no ('are to keep themfelves from 
the Plagues, or other infe6tiousDifeafes, and are offended 
at Chridians for it. 
They believe, that Jefus Chrid was. conceived by the 
Rauah, i. e. The Breath or Spirit of God, in the Womb 
of the Virgin •, but they deny him to be the Son of 
God, who is one, and hath no Companion ; That he 
was a great Prophet, and wrought many Miracles among 
the Jews, and foretold the Coming of Mahomet, under 
the Name of the Comforter, but they deny that he was 
crucified ; That Jefus Chrid (hall come to Judge the 
World, and (hall reign forty Years in Bamafcus, marry 
and have Children, at which Time Antichrijl (hall arife, 
and deceive many, fetting a Mark on their Foreheads ; 
but Chrid fhall dedroy him, and (liall next afcend up 
into Heaven, and then the Day of Judgment (hall come. 
In fhort, they give great Honour to Jefus Chrid and 
the Virgin Mary, and if they hear any Man fpeak ill 
of them, they will chadife him as feverely as if he fpake 
againd Mahomet \ for they believe that the Gorpel was 
fent to Jefus, as the Law was to Mojes, and the Pfalms 
to David, ' 
They believe all the Prophets, and that Paradife (liall 
be filled with the Jud, and Hell by the Wicked. They 
Iky moreover, That the Power of God is fuch, that 
at the Creation of the World he prefix’d and appointed 
a fet Time for every Man’s End, that the Wit or De- 
vice of Mortals cannot divert nor prevent, which makes 
them not only very refolute and courageous in their 
Wars, and upon all other Occafions, but they laugh at 
and fcorn all Means to drive away Difeafes and prevent 
Death, as if they oppoled God’s Will in fo doing. 
They deny a Purgatory, but hold that there is a Place 
called AraJ, between Paradice and Hell, where they 
(hall be that have done neither Good nor Evil'. In Pa- 
rixd'xct Mahomet the Bleffed, delicious Gardens, 
full of pleafant Huits and Fountains, Rivers of Waters, 
Milk, Wine and Honey, Scarlet and Green Cloathing, 
and lovely Virgins, with Skins as white as a new-laid 
Egg, and black Eyes, always young and Virgins •, that 
God (hall appear to them every Week on Friday i That 
thole that are in Hell fhall drink fcalding hot Water, 
and eat of the Fruit of the I'ree Zacon ; That if they 
have Faith, after all their Sins flaall be confumed and 
wafh’d in the Water Solzahoul, they fhall be admitted 
into Paradice, where they fliali receive and enjoy as 
much Happinefs as thofe that entred at firft •, but fuch 
as have no Faith, and are meer Atheifts, (hall bura 
everlaftingly in Hell-Fire. 
5. They pray for the Dead, as the Papifts do, and 
invocate their Saints to recommend them to God. 
They acknowledge Guardian Angels, not only to every 
Mujfulman, but to every Affair and Member, and at- 
tribute all that befals any Body to them, becaufe they 
wait upon them in all Places but when they go to 
do their Occafions, and then they leave them at the 
Door. They alfo believe, that when a Man is buried, 
his Soul returns to his Body, and two Angels, called^ 
Munker and Guanequir, come to him, and if he has li- 
ved ill, they bring him an ugly Creature, that repre- 
fents his Sms and bad Deeds, to torment him till the 
Day of Judgment ; but if he hath lived well, they 
bring him a lovely Creature, which reprefents his good 
Addons, and which gives him a great deal of Content, 
and (fays with him till the Day of Judgment. 
They believe, that not only the good Miijfelmen, but 
fome Beads and Fowls (hall enter into Paradice, viz. 
The Prophet SaleDs Camel, which he raifed to Life in 
Perfia *, Abraham’s Ram ; Mofes’s Cow, whofe Afhes 
are mingled with the Water of Purification ; Salomon’^ 
Ant ; the Queen ot Sheba’s Parrot, which brought her 
the firft News of Salomon -, Ezra’s Afs, which, they fay 
was raifed to Life many Years after it had been dead, 
to prove a Refurredtion ? Jomh\ Whale \ the little 
Dog 
