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Part of the Entertainment : And in the mofi: folemn Feads they 
make, the firfl: thing prefented to their Guefts is Coffee, and 
they ply them continually with it as long as they ftay, which is 
often for above (even or eight Hours. 
They drink Coffee not only in Houles, but even in the pub- 
lick Streets as they go about their Bufinels, and fometimes three 
or four People, by turns, out of the lame Cup. They never 
ule Sugar, Milk, nor any other Mixture except the Smoke of 
Tobacco j for they leldom care to drink Coffee without a Pipe 
in their Mouths. A great deal of the Virtue of it they think 
conlihs in, drinking it hot ; and therefore, for fear of burning 
their Mouths, and, as they lay, to lliun the Grounds, they lip 
it by little and little , fo that they are lometimes near an. Hour 
upon one Dilli. And it is none of the leaft Diverlions which a 
Stranger finds among them, to hear this Sipping-Mufick in u 
publick Coffee-Houfe, where perhaps fome hundreds are drinking 
at a time. 
The Mailers of the Coffee-Houles endeavour to draw Cuflom 
to them, not only by the Goodnefs of their Liquor, Neatnefs, 
and Dexterity of their Servants 5 but by entertaining them with 
Mufick, Dancing, and other things of that kind : And in Perjia, 
they ufed to carry their Compliance fo far, that the Government 
was obliged to put a Hop to the infamous Pradlices committed 
there. Sometimes the Company make an Entertainment for 
themlelves, when either the Converfition begins to languilli, or 
they are tired with what the Houle affords ,• and that confills 
commonly in making a Ver^ize preach them a Sermon, or a Poet 
repeat his own Verfes. 
In all the m'eat Mens Houles, there are Servants whofe Bufinels 
it is only to take care of the Coffee 3 and the Head- Officer 
amongll them, or he who has the Inlpedion over all the reft, 
has an Apartment allow’d him near the Hall which is deftin’d for 
the Reception of Vifiters : The Turks call this Officer Kahueghtj 
that is. Overleer or Steward of the Coffee. In the Haram or 
Ladies Apartment in the Seraglio , there are a great many fuch 
Officers, who have each forty cr fifty Baltagis under them, who, 
^fter they have lerv’d a certain time in thele Coffee-Houfes, are 
fure to be well provided for, either by an advantageous Poll, or 
a fufficient Qiiantity of Land. In the Houles of Perfons of 
Quality likewife, there are a fort of Pages call’d Itchoglans, who 
receive the Coffee from the Stewards, and prefent it to the Com- 
pany With a furprizing Dexterity and Addrels, as loon as the 
Mafter of the Family makes a fign for that Purpole, which is all 
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