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re furre&ion, and pra&ice a thoufand other follies 
which the heathens would have been afliamed. 
*his they do, at lea ft fo they fay, to warm the 
^arth, that the fire may come up more eafily. At 
four o’clock, all the three nations began a procef- 
l0n j and a little while after, a lamp was brought 
!^ Ut of the grave, which they believed to have been 
,‘ghted by the facred fire. There was fuch a fight- 
,n g with torches and flambeaux, becaufe every one 
} Vas defirous of lighting his at the facred fire, that 
11 occafioned a greater and more deteftable noife, 
c han is even heard in a market place or a bear 
garden. The molt entertaining fight was the 
fanner in which the Turks treated the Greeks on 
t leir feftival. About twelve flout men ported them- 
e |ves at the entrance of the Sepulchre : fome had 
tulips, other fticks, with which they laid on the 
Cr °uding multitude, without paying any regard to 
peat or fmall, fpiritual or temporal: they even 
Pared not the Bilhop’s gown; for as the Greek 
^'fltop was carried out on the fhoulders of his con- 
jugation,- with the holy lamp in his hand, he re- 
Ce ‘ved unexpectedly a hard ftroke with a Hick over 
hand: yet they mult bear this treatment; and, 
jpnd with fuperftition, they fufl'er it with picafiire. 
t ' le Turks did not ufe precaution, and baniih as 
pich as polfible the diforder that would enfue, this 
c'ne would never end without fome unhappy ac- 
The Franks or Latins look with difdain on 
hiperftition, and thofe who think rationally do 
in ' arne ’ ^ tlt ^ ere r ^ e vu lg ar mult he kept 
^ . e fuperftitious imagination they have long had; 
yirles, it is certain, that of tooo Pilgrims who now 
t i ai 'Iy arrive, not ten would come, were it not for 
u ! e acrc A fire : to let it go over their faces, and the 
over them br carts; to let loraeoftheirwhiJkers 
and 
