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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35840	Polish manuscripts, or, The secret history of the reign of John Sobieski the III, of that name, K. of Poland containing a particular account of the siege of Vienna ... with the letters that passed on that occasion betwixt the Emperor, King of Poland, Pope, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Lorrain, Republick of Venice ... : the whole intermix'd with an account of the author's travels thro' Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. .../ translated from the French original, wrote by M. Dalerac ...; Anecdotes de Pologne. English	Dalairac, M. (François-Paulin)	1700 (1700)	Wing D127; ESTC R5247	177,325	306

to the Poor of the City as they made a Lane to him going and coming I can say nothing of their Mosques for a Christian much less a Slave is not admitted into them but with extraordinary Precautions But as to their Manner of Prayer since the Turks are not so secret as to that I can here acquaint You with the whole Ceremony at which I have been forc'd to Officiate à Thousand times In the First Place You must know That all the Turks without exception rise every Morning by Break of Day at all Seasons of the Year That they make themselves ready for Prayer by Washing with clean Water their Hands and Arms up to the Elbow their Face and the inside of their Nostrils their Mouths behind their Ears the top of their Forehead and the back part of their Neck This they do by a set number of Rubbings and with a great many Mysterious Forms finishing the whole by clapping their wet Hands under their Feet and leaving an Impression of their Five Fingers under their Pumps and sprinkling their Privy-parts with Water All this they look upon as essentially necessary and then spread a Carpet or Garment at the end of which they say their Prayers turning their Faces towards Mecca where their Prophet is interred They begin their Devotion standing upright with several Motions of their Hands which they clap to their Ears with their Thumbs afterwards lay them across their Breasts then letting them hang down and every now and then fall down on their Knees and rise up again after they have kiss'd the Ground They end all by Saluting the two Angels which they suppose to be present and sitting one upon each Shoulder This Devotion they pay very regularly Five times a Day at Day-break between Ten and Eleven a Clock at Four in the Afternoon at Sun-set and when 't is quite dark They always begin with the foremention'd Washings and on their more Solemn Festivals they wash their Legs up to their Knees especially on the Day of the Great Bairam of which more hereafter The Arabic which was Mahomet's Native Language is that which is most us'd among them as the Latin is in the Church of Rome All their Books all their Prayers and most of their considerable Expeditions are writ in Arabic which few of the Turks do understand tho' they can all read it and 't is a sign of a great Scholar to be able to explain it This Language is very difficult of a harsh Sound and pronounc'd through the Throat whereas the Turkish is soft easie fluent intelligible and comes pretty near the Latin without Articles and those confus'd Phrases and ceremonial Circumlocutious Theeing and Thouing every Body even God and the Sultan himself with Manly Expressions in their common Discourse and moving ones in their Songs and Love They are as uniform in their Manners as they are in their Words They make no account of the Wall salute no Body as they go along the Streets and scarce take Notice of any Body and if two Persons happen to meet he that comes up first is to pass the Complement and the other to return it but if the first says nothing the other is as silent as He. They converse with one another with a free open air and a smiling aspect and the Master of the house passes a Civility upon his Guests by giving them the upper hand of his Couch offering them Coffee and Tobacco after which they depart without saluting any Person or saying a Word only sighing devoutly Alla which is all the Ceremony The Turks know nothing of the Custom of clapping the hand to the hat or mouth when we expect to receive any favour they are for having it receiv'd just as they give it without any Ceremony or Submission The Case indeed is otherwise as to those who are in any Office for instance they pay their Complements to the Bassas or Persons of Note with both their hands on their brests bowing their heads to the ground very respectfully They who wait upon them before and after discoursing with them kiss the bottom of their Garment bringing it up to their Forehead and Mouth as they do the Letters which are directed to them from the Bassas and Visiers The students do the same after the Lesson is over to the Hand or the Vest of their Master and this is all the Ceremony of Civility which I ever observed among them By this 't is easy to perceive that their manner of Conversation is very plain for beside this jejune or rough way the Turks know nothing of the Sciences or of Foreign Countries So that being only limited to their own History Wars Commerce and Affairs of their own private Interest or that of the State their discourses run only up-these Subjects without any mixture of Gallantry less known than the Sciences themselves since every one does that at their own homes with as many Women as they are able to maintain When they are met seven or eight in a Room or a Coffee house The Company desires one among the rest to tell them a story or Fabulous Tradition and this Speaker holds forth for an hour together all the rest listning very attentively with Pipes in their Mouths or Beads in their hands This is all the Conversation they have unless it be a game at Chess which they are great Masters at but then they play only for diversion without any stake So So that it is no wonder if the Turks seek for Amusements in War or in Handicraft Trades and Mechanicks in which they excell even to a Miracle nothing being comparable to the beauty neatness and delicacy of all that is made use of by them T is not the same with respect to their Table and Buildings The Turks being used to or rather bred up under Tents never mind having fine houses nor do they build any nor repair those in the Towns which they take T is enough for them to be under shelter and to have their Couches or Stately Sophas which is all the houshold Goods they mind having no Tapestry or Hangings on their Walls nor any other Pictures unless Rebesk Work or any Beds or Chairs but rich Carpets and fine Coverlets Good feeding is a stranger to them They eat purely to sustain Life and make it a business of necessity not of Pleasure The Table call'd Sofra is commonly a round piece of Leather fasten'd with strings like a Purse which they hang up against a Wall when they have done eating On this Sofra they lay neither Cloth nor Napkin but some pieces of bread round about a single Dish in the middle out of which every one eats which is supplied by another as that is Empty for they have never two dishes laid on together Each Man has his knife hanging by his side and a Handkerchief serves instead of a Napkin the Word Marama in their Language being used to signifie both a Handkerchief and a Napkin Their food is no richer than