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the Cadilefg^usrSy Moullalds or Cadds, or Juft ices and 
Naibs, perform his Office in other Places. The Sultgn 
conlults with the Mufti about State- Affairs, as when he 
defigns to put any Prime Minifter to Death, difgrace 
the Prime Vizier or Bafha^ or undertake any other Bufinefs 
of Importance, becaufe ’tis a Notion among the People, 
that there is more Equity in a wife and pious Perfon’s 
Judgment, than in the abfolute Power of a Prince, 
though as it is now ufed, ’tis meer Formality, for the 
Mufti muft comply with the Will of his Prince. Every 
Mufti muft have been a Cadilefquer firft, and have dif- 
charged that Office well before he is raifed to that Dig- 
nity. He has no Power over the Imans^ or Priefts, 
becaufe the "Burh have no Hierarchy. 
Thofe who officiate in their Mofques, and read Pray- 
ers there daily, are the Danifchmend^ or as the Franks 
call them, FaUfmans, and the Iman is the Chief of 
them. The Muezims^ or Church- Clerks, call them to 
Prayers from the Minerets of the Mofques, and the 
Hodgiads are old Men of Integrity, very knowing in the 
Alcoran and Civil Affairs. Thefe are confulted in Af- 
fairs of Importance, and fometimes preach on certain 
Feftivals. They have feveral Sorts of Monks, of which 
the Deruices are the Chief. They live in common, and 
have their Superior, as Popifh Monks have. They go 
very mean in their Apparel, and wear on their Heads 
a Cap of white Felt, like our Night-Caps. Every 
Fuefday and Friday they make a Dance in the Middle 
of an Hall, rail’d in fquare, where are two Pulpits, the 
one for the Superior, and the other for the Vicar. At 
the other End of the Hall is a Scaffold, where feveral 
Bervices are placed to play on the Flutes or Drums. 
When they have fung fome Prayers, the Superior makes 
a Sermon upon fome Words of the Alcoran in Turkifh^ 
which are read to him by the Vicar in Arabick. When 
the Sermon is ended, the Superior with the Vicar, come 
down from the Pulpit, and having, with the reft of the 
Bervices^ taken two Turns about the Hall, all the In- 
ftruments play in Concert, and then begins the Dance. 
They pafs before the Superior, and falute him humbly, 
and then making a Leap, fall a-turning up>on their 
left Foot as a Windmill driven by the ftrongeft Wind, 
and though they ftretch out their Arms, and fometimes 
(hut their Eyes, they never touch one another, but keep 
Time to the Mufick, and never make the leaft falfe 
Step. The Author of this Dance was one Hazreti 
MewlanUy a Dervifcy who is reckoned a Saint among 
them, but all their Bervifes and Santo^s are Hypo- 
crites. 
12. The Marriage of the Furks is of three Sorts, and 
fo they have as many Sorts of Wives, i. Lawful 
Wives, and thefe they take after this Manner : The 
Man that defires to be married agrees with the Parents 
or neareft Relations of the Maid about the Dowry they 
will give their Daughter or Kinfwoman before a Cadi^ 
who writes it down. This done he gets an Iman to 
bids his Marriage, and then the Bridegroom on the 
Marriage-day leads the Bride to his Houfe, her Baggage 
being carried on Horfes or Camels before them, and 
there they feaft and are merry, the Men and Women 
by themfelves, and commonly they have Mufick and 
Poppet-Shows, as alfo the Women Fehingene^ to 
fhew Tricks for the Diverfion of the Company. Thefe 
Wives the Furks may divorce when they pleafe, by go- 
ing before the Cadi, and faying, Alei take be talaii, i, e. 
1 part with her for three Fimes: But if a Man put away 
his Wife Vv^rongfully, he muft give her her Dowry ; 
but if he does it upon juft Grounds, or file forfakes 
him, he gives her nothing. When a Woman is thus 
divorced, fhe may not marry another Man till four 
Months be paft, that ftie may know whether fhe be with 
Child, for if fhe be, the Hufband that divorced her 
muft keep it, and if ilie be not, fometime fuch Matches 
are made up in that Time. A Man that hath divorced 
his Wife cannot marry her again, till flie hath been firft 
manied to another Man, and then he may take her 
back. When they are thus married, if the Hufband 
happen to die, the Wife takes her Dowry, and no 
more, and if the Wife dies, and leaves Children, they 
may conftrain their Father to give them their Mother’s 
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Dowry. Of thefe Wives the Furks can have but one, 
though fome have faid four. 
They may alfo have Wives of Keben, 'which they take 
with lefs Ceremony than the former ; for they only go 
to the Cadi, and tell him, that they take fuch an one 
to be their Wife, promifing to give her fb much if they 
divoice her. This the Cadi writes down, and gives the 
Man a Copy, and he may keep her or divorce her as 
he pleafes, performing his Promile, and maintaining 
the Children he hath by her. The Furks may have 
feven of thefe Wives, nay, as many as they can keep, 
but to fave Charges, few of them will have more than, 
one or two. 
Their other Wives are Haylaykes, i. e. W^omen-Slaves, 
and of thefe every Man may have as many as he pleafes, 
and the Children begotten of them are held as legiti- 
mate as thofe of the former W^ives, and have as much 
Title to the Inheritance of what their Father leaves be- 
hind him, if by his Will he infranchizeth them, other- 
wife they remain Slaves to the eldeft by the lawful Wife ; 
but if a Furk takes a Slave for his Bed, he may not 
fell her again if fhe have Children, but fhe becomes a 
Member of his Family ; if fhe proves barren, fhe may 
be fold as often as her Mafters will. ^ 
_ The Furks may buy all Sorts of Slaves of every Re- 
ligion. and Nation, but ChriHians and Jews may not buy 
a lurh At Conftantinople is a Market for Slaves in a 
Place near the Bezifian every TV ednefday, and every one 
may buy freely for their feveral Ufes, their Lull not ex- 
cepted. Thefe Slaves are bought and fold like Horfes 
view’d, review’d, and felt all over their Bodies, and 
meir Mouths look’d into, being alfo examin’d of their 
Country and Age. A beautiful Virgin at thefe Markets 
IS held at an high Rate, but the Seller is anfwerable for 
her Virginity, for if fhe prove otherwife, he muft re- 
ftore the Money fhe was fold for, and bear a fharp Fine 
ror his Fraud. 
13. The Slaves of Furks are not fo miferable as 
thty are commonly fuppofed. They are frequently the 
Under-Mafters of Families, for if they light on a good 
Mafter, or are endued with any Talent, their Mafters 
will love them, and will feldom hinder them from go- 
mg to Church to pay their Devotion : They are very 
frequently alfo in Favour with their Miftrelfes, who 
through a tender Companion, natural to their Sex, give 
them Prefents. Their Mafters, indeed, are oblio-ed by 
their Law to exhort them three Times a Day to em- 
brace the Alcoran, but they feldom force them to re- 
nounce their Faith. Thefe Things have made fome 
Slaves to refufe their Liberty, and being made free to 
return again to their Servitude. 
14. The Furkifh Women are commonly beautiful, 
ftreight and well-fhaped, for they never go abroad with- 
out their Veil to cover their Faces. They paint their 
Eye-brows with which gives them a blackifti 
Colour, and their Nails with El-hanna, which is a red- 
difti brown. They are very cleanly and neat, for go- 
ing to the Bath twice a Week they have neither Hair 
nor Dirt upon their Bodies. Their Cloaching and Shoes 
are much like the Mens, but their Head-Attire is diffe- 
rent, for they make a very long Trefs of their Hair, 
which hangs down to the Small of their Back, and if 
they want Hair, they ufe an artificial Trefs, or a Cafe 
of Sattin. 
In the Houfe they cover their Heads with a Cap of 
red Cloth, like our Night-Caps, but with four Horns 
or Points on the Tops, to the Middle of which they 
ftitch a Round of Pearls, and tie it belov/ with a Hand- 
kerchief of fine Stuff wrought with Flowers of Gold 
and Silk ; but when they go abroad, they change it for 
one made of gilt Pafte-board, and muffle up their Head 
fo in a Linen Cloth, that nothing but their Eyes is un- 
covered, nay their Shift Sleeves cover their Hands, be- 
caufe it is a Thing of ill Repute fo much as to fliew 
any Part of their Bodies ; yet in a Corner of the Streets, 
they will venture to uncover their Face to a Friend, or 
a young Man they like, though, if they be difeovered, 
they are baftinado’d. 
The Furkifh Women are very haughty, and extreamly 
lazy, and though they do nothing but fit on their Bk 
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