‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎320] (387/470)

The Voyages of lohn Vor. Ill,
they are very quick and expert. The Goffee-houfes they call Cahnx'
Chme , where they only go to drink Coffee.and fraokc Tobacco, Jo?®'" 11
with which they are fo deeply affefted that they fomtimes fmoke in 11^®®''
the Church. When they are within doors they have a great Glafs, it* c ®
full of water , thro which they put their Pipes and fmokc , much 1^®
after the manner of an Alembic Still, which renders it very cool. When iiPeoF
they draw, the water bubbles up as if it boyled, yet by rcafon of a OntW
ftinking vapour that rifes from it, is very annoyfom. But when they itiekts
fmoke along the ftreet have only Inch a Pipe as thofe which are now
o-rown common in the LoTv-Coumreys, being of feveral joynts, and jotlpot
the Head of Earth. Their Coffee they drink very hot, and arc of mtof®:
opinion that it fedates and affwages their Luft to Women , which
make their Wives ready to proteft againft it, rather willing that iadsycr
their Husbands fhould tranfgrefs againft the Alchoran and ufe the lt Jtlio(cl
Juyce of the Grape than that Berry. The chief Cuftomers jactM
which thofe Public Houfes have, are the Barbers, who frequently
haunt them to be imploy'd in fhaving their Heads: but every man ^
that is able to buy a Rafor always carries one about with him , being
very fearfull of the fenereAl Murrain, which they call and we
the French Pox , or fom fuch thing. WA
But quaint is the Habit , and more ftrange the Cuftoms of their
Clergy , and fuch as are under any Spiritual Order, who notwith- | ^
Handing thek vain and palpable Fooleries , have drawn themfelvs Ko : q
into a great efteem of the Laity of all degrees. Thefe abftain from ^ ^
Wine, live an auftere life, and never n arry till they grow very old.
Som go in a longcourfe Robe, others half naked, and a third fort
only with a Skin girded about their middle. They go about the Streets, ^
and when they come to any large Place as the May dan, , or the
like, fit down, and with a moft hideous yelling convoke an Auditory,
which being aflembled they make a kind of a hortatory Oration,
which notwithft'anding the Scope or End, contains little elfe than
a commemoration of the great and worthy Acts of Aly, and alwaies
at Peroration vilify and curfe the Tu Saints Omar , and
jtbubeker, but more eagerly againft the dogmatical Decrees of the
Vbec-Tartars: But thofe of that nation being of late years grown very
numerous at ifpahm , affumed the boldnefs to oppofe them, for which 1! ff
end the King has allowed thofe Worthies to go armed with Hatchets, |l(4 i
as