44 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
it for life. Peter politely refufed when that part of 
the text was read which concerned him, wherefore 
eleven only were w allied. The Bilhop again put on 
his pall, and fmilhed with a blelling, after he had. 
walhed, dried, and kilfed the feet of his meanell 
brethren; and they in return had the honour to 
kifs his head or rather mitre, with which the fcene 
concluded. During the whole fcene, many large and 
fmall wax candles, and a prodigious number of lamps 
were burning. The Bilhop held three fmall wax can- 
dles, and each prieft held one. The congregation 
fung in chorufes their hymns, but in their Greek 
method, which is the moll pitiful that can be heard, 
Noife and riot, which proceeded even to blows ou 
the head, were not wanting whilft this fcene lafted. 
In a Greek church the people cannot lleep, which 
often happens in the churches of other perfualions, 
as thefe are obliged to Hand up, and be in a con- 
ftant motion by croffing and bowing ; but they fall 
into the other extreme, and are too much awake 
going out of church. I law the Greeks receive the 
Lord’s Supper. Married prielts only receive with 
their own hands the bread and wine, which is given 
them by the Bilhop. This was alfo done, as I have 
already noticed, before the walhing of the feet. 
The bread was of wheat, thick, hard, in fmall cakes 
of three inches diameter, and feemed to be of the 
kind the European mailers of velfels have baked in 
Smyrna for Ih ip-bread, which otherwife never is ufed 
by the inhabitants of the country. The cake was by 
the Bilhop broke into fmaller bits, which were taken 
by the prielts that flood round the altar, who bit off 
a piece and took the wine, which was likewife given 
them by the Bilhop. The people received the commu- 
nion from a prieft after the walhing of the feet. He 
ilood in a little chapel befide the veltry, and through 
a window 
