'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎313] (336/448)

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But more agreeing with thefe Perfian foot-men are the amonglb tlie Turks T, <r
arm Fetcht in com,urn Prwcipis & amecurfores, J."
aUte CHrrentes , cumfecuncnUm mam & fhia
ad JdrMm^Umma du & mfo fervemre, qm fixanZ
miliar,*Romam. Foot-men attending the Army and imployed to and fro, as occlfon
requires, who are fo exceeding fwift, as holding a fmailhatchet in one hand and a bo tie
of fweet water (for refrelhment) m the other, they will in a day and a night run
from Cwftammple to Mnamph being ,eo. miles afunder
CorfM [Hccwgunt ne doleant in cm-fa, they gird themfelves well felt thev fail in their
courfe. Nor is it impertinent to add what records of a Jew that was lingular in
this kind. Pofierion avo fuh Leo. Imp. Conftam.
JpetlMjubtto evanejeehat,fd&rts mftarj mc mrem fmUu\arte
homo mmaUspmSHm die cohere nonjoterat,
a Jew fo fwift, as after his fetting out, hewas foon out of fight, vanifliine like Light
ning, and Teeming rather to fly than go; in one day running as it were with eafe
fubjed n ^ ^ Can P0 11 aWay Wlth Chan8e 0f h0rfeS " T00 mUch, 1 fear5 "P 011 th ^
The for the moft part eat in Porcellane or earth,not valuing Silver, Cthe Kinsr
by fuch attrafting it to his own Table:) they have another reafon, but ridiculous, Tfiat
Mahomet at his defcent into Hell feeing the Devils at dinner,obferved that thev were fer-
ved in Giver. In feeding they ufe no knives, or imploy one finger or two, three or four
being enjoin d them from Tradition. Nor do they cut their Bread, but break or rend it ■
equally fiftitious i for Ovnan in his Parody allures them the Devil thev call himi
doth cut what he eats •, which makes it no fable, feeing he eats not. And for the mode
of breaking Bread, O^mm borrowed it from the Jews who had that cuftome • pradifed
likewife by the Gentiles, as we find in Xemfon in his defcription of the Per fur, is Never-
thelefs, ignorance makes them attribute all to Miracles.
At meals they are the merrieft Men alive; no people in the World have better fto-
machs, drink more freely, or more affect voracity; yet are harmlefly merry; a mix-
tureofmeat and mirth excellently becoming them: For here,
\
Qui emit, arte emit \
Jovial in a high degree-, efpecially when the Curtezans are in company ; the Men ac
count that for good manners which we thought barbarous; when in complement, or ra*
ther fqualhd wantonnefs, they would overcharge their mouths with Pelo, and bv an af"
fedled laughter exonerate their chaps, throwing the overplus into the dilh again; and
as a lymbol of good will (fir-reverence) offer others to eat what they had chewed for
merly. To end, having foak'd their huffinees or water-bags, wine-bottles are then ufu
ally emptied : at that exercife they fit long and drink fonndly, condemning that precept
in the Alcoran as an idle toy, invented by Ofman, That it is Giants blood, the blood of
thofe Giants the Greeks call Theo-macbi, or the Devils gall as fome have refembled it • al
belt the Tarfe forbear to drink it partly from that perfwafion. Neverthelefs the Perfiam
m this are commendable. That they never quarrel in their cups; nor compel thev anv to
fit longer, or drink more, than he pleafes: Perf
te, Athentm I. 4. a fobnety that held till the fubjeded them; and then,
mtabeat : Yet by that which Xenofhon relates, who was in 120 years before Ae
mder, it appears that the Perfam in his time had left off that vertne of temperance
in drinking, r etm lex erat ne amphora ad convivia import arentHr, See. Nunc vero tant urn
bihuntj mnon importent, fed ut ipfi importaremtr, Xemph. Nor drink they Healths, or one
unto another •, a civil cuftome, but too much abufed amongft Chriftians; Minos, a Hea-
then, ftridly forbad it the Cretans, as Plata rehearfes in his Dialogues : But compared
with thofe of old, are without refemblance •, thefe being homely, thofe full of excels.
Dim and Ctefm give fome inftances; as that in old times the Perfidn Monarchs made
many Feafts, and many times invited no lefs than fifteen thoufand Men 5 Rex Perfamm
cim i 5 oooriromm-coenat, &ith:Memus l. A c c. 10. •, in every entertainment expending
tour hundred Talents, which amounts in our Money to two hundred and forty thoufand
Crowns*, and at private Feafts where forty or fifty were entertained, as Bphipiw Olyn-
thtw reports, a Supper ftood in a hundred Mynaes of Gold, each Myna, or Dyna, in our
Money valuing fix and twenty millings and eight pence. A large allowance in that juve-
fi! ^ r • ior we fay 0 P es yet credible when.the vaft Revenue
cue Perfian Empire extraded from many Nations is confidered * for, what accrued out of
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