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A68944	The trauels of certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea And into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galile, Samaria, Iudea, Palestina, Ierusalem, Iericho, and to the Red Sea: and to sundry other places. Begunne in the yeare of iubile 1600. and by some of them finished in this yeere 1608. The others not yet returned. Very profitable to the help of trauellers, and no lesse delightfull to all persons who take pleasure to heare of the manners, gouernement, religion, and customes of forraine and heathen countries.	Biddulph, William.; Lavender, Theophilus.	1609 (1609)	STC 3051; ESTC S101961	116,132	170

is concerning praier wherein is required 4. That euery man fiue times a day repaire to their Churches to make publike praier vnto Mahomet The Turkes haue no bels but very faire Churches and high Steeples and at the houres of their publike praier they are called to Church by the voice of Criers who goe vp into their stéeples and cry with a loud voice Come now and worship the great God And sometimes also thus La Illa Eillala Mahomet Resullala that is God is a great God and Mahomet is his Prophet And sometimes no more but thus Ollah hethbar that is God is alone that is There is but one God And oftentimes there is but one Crier in one stéeple But on their Sabboth day which is friday and at sundry other times there are many men crying and bauling in euery stéeple like a kennell of hounds when they haue started their game The first méeting at publike praier euery day is before the rising of the sunne The second is about noone or midday and on their Sabboth day two houres sooner and againe at noone so that they pray fiue times euery day and on their Sabboth day six times The third time for publike praier euery day is at the tenth houre of the day called by the Turkes Kindi by the Moores Assera about thrée or foure of the clocke after noone The fourth méeting is about sunne setting The fifth and last houre of praier is two houres within night before they goe to sléepe Before they come to praier they prepare themselues thereunto by outward washings of themselues in token of reuerence and suffer no women to come to their Churches lest the sight of them should with-draw their mindes from praier And though they doe not come to Church yet when they heare the voice of the Criers they will pray wheresoeuer they be and fall downe and kisse the ground thrée times Oftentimes also these Criers walke about the stéeples in the euenings and sing after their rude manner Dauids Psalmes in the Arabicke tongue And when rich men heare them sing well and with cléere voices they are so delighted therewith that they vse to send them money Their fifth Commandement is concerning fasting viz. 5. That one Moone in the yeere euery one of any reasonable age spend the whole time in fasting They haue but one Lent in the yéere and then they fast generally in this manner When the new moone changeth which they call Romadan then during all that moone they fast all the day long betwixt sunne rising and sunne setting and neither eat nor drinke any thing at all But when the sunne setteth then the crier calleth them to Church and after they haue praied then they may eat what kinde of meat they will sauing swines flesh which is forbidden by their Law and as oft as they will vntill sunne rising so that their Lent is but a changing of day into night During this moone Romadan they obserue this kinde of abstinence very strictly And so soone as the next moone changeth which they call Byram then their Lent endeth and they hold a feast for thrée daies space together At which time they say Mahomet deliuered vnto them their law Their sixth Commandement is concerning Almesdéeds 6. Let euery man out of his store giue vnto the poore liberally freely and voluntarily Their Almes is either publike or priuate Their publike Almes is a sacrifice or offering of some beast for a sacrifice vnto Mahomet once euery yéere which being killed it is cut into small péeces and giuen all to the poore Their priuate Almes notwithstanding their Law is much neglected for I haue heard of many poore people who haue died amongst them for want of reléefe and in the way as I haue trauelled I haue found some dead for hunger and cold And though a man be neuer so poore yet if he be not able to pay his Head money to the King yéerely they are beaten and their women and children sold to pay it I● our murmuring and impatient poore were héere but a short time they would learne to bee more thankfull to God and man and how to estéeme of a benefit bestowed on them and not curse and reuile as many of them doe if any one that passeth by them doe not giue vnto them The Turkes are more mercifull to birds cats and dogs than to the poore Their seuenth Commandement is concerning Marriage 7. That euery man must of necessitie marry to encrease and multiply the Sect and Religion of Mahomet Their custome is to buy their wiues of their parents and neuer to sée them vntil they come to be married and their marriage is nothing but enrolling in the Cadies booke And it is lawfull for them to take as many wiues as they will or as many as they are able to kéepe And whensoeuer he disliketh any one of them it is their vse to sell them or giue them to any of their men-slaues And although they loue their women neuer so well yet they neuer sit at table with men no not with their husbands but wait at table and serue him and when he hath dined they dine in secret by themselues admitting no man or mankinde amongst them if he be aboue twelue yéeres of age And they neuer goe abroad without leaue of their husbands which is very seldome except it be either to the Bannio or hot Bath or once a wéeke to wéepe at the graues of the dead which is vsually on Thursday being the Ene before their Sabboth which is Friday and the Iewes Sabboth on Saturday and the Christians on Sunday thrée Sabboth daies together in one Country If their husbands haue béene abroad at his entrance into the house if any one of their women be sitting on a stoole she riseth vp and boweth herselfe to her husband and kisseth his hand and setteth the same stoole for him whereon they sate and stand so long as he is in presence If the like order were in England women would be more dutifull and faithfull to their husbands than many of them are and especially if there were the like punishment for whores there would be lesse whoredome for there if a man haue an hundred women if any one of them prostitute herselfe to any man but her owne husband he hath authoritie to binde her hands and feet and cast her into the riuer with a stone about her necke and drowne her And this is a common punishment amongst them but it is vsually done in the night And the man if he be taken is dismembred But the daughters and sisters of the great Turke are more frée than all other men and women For when their brethren die they liue and when they come to yéeres of marriage their father if he be liuing or brother if he be King will giue vnto them for their husbands the greatest Bashawes or Viziers whom they shall affect and say vnto them Daughter or sister I giue thée this man to be thy slaue and bedfellow and

Ethalie by Ephodore But by Methrodorus Chio of the Nymph Chione and as others say Macrine or Pythiosa but at this day called Syo This Iland is inhabited chiefly by Gréekes but gouerned by Turkes It is full of gardens oringes lemmons citrons figs peares apples pruans apricocks dates and oliues and likewise of all sorts of hearbes swéet flowers good and holesome waters There is also great store of mastick in this Iland which is gathered of certaine trées like vnto Lentiscos trées in this manner About the beginning of the moneths of Iuly and August the husbandmen with a sharpe pointed iron doe rent and cut the barke of the trées in diuers places and out of these incisions and cuts procéedeth the masticke by drops as it were gumme which they gather in the moneth of September following In this Iland are also great store of Partriges which both in colour and quality doe much differ from ours Their colour is somewhat red and they are as tame as though they were chickens or hens In certaine villages of this Iland the country people doe féed them by great flocks driuing them in the day time to grase in the mountaines and towards night the boyes or girles which doe kéepe them doe call them together by a whistle or song And these Partriges being accustomed to such calls presently euery flocke which sometimes are two or thrée hundred gather to their conducter which bringeth them home to their village and dwelling as though they were hens or tame géese They goe also a feeding by small flocks in the stréets of the City This Iland is one of the seuen which contended for Homers birth And they say that Homer was buried in this Iland and that his sepulcher is to be séene to this day vpon the Mount Helias within an old Castle in this Iland but I haue not séene it The maine land of Asia is in sight ouer against Chios and therein Smyrna Ephesus and Thyatira called now Tyria with the rest of the seuen Churches of Asia to whom S. Iohn wrote which are mentioned Reuel 1. 11. And Pathmos the Ile where Iohn was put into a hot tunne of oile Reuel 1. 9. After we had staied ten daies in Chios which as I haue said is now vulgarly called Sio or Scio we sailed towards Constantinople by Mitilene an Iland in the Aegean sea It was first called Lesbos secondly Issa thirdly Pelasgie fourthly Mitilene and Mytais and lastly Metelyn of Milet the sonne of Phoebus which builded the City and named it Mytelene Of this City was Pythagoras Alceus the Poet and his brother Antimenides Theophrastus and Phanius and Arion that skilfull plaier on the harpe and Tersander that famous Musitian Sapho a woman well learned in Poetry was also a Lesbian being called the tenth Muse She inuented the verses which after her name were called Saphicke Verses This Mytilenes was formerly called Bythinia which is a Country in Asia opposite to Thracia néere Troy It was first called Bebricia after Mygdonia and then Bythinia but at this day it is called Lesbos néere vnto Lemnos from whence commeth the terra sigillata otherwise called terra Lemnia which is said to be a remedy against poison the bloody flixe and the plague From Mittelyn we sailed by Tenedos an I le betwixt Lesbos and Hellespont néere Troy whereof Virgill speaketh Aeneid 2. Est in conspectu Tenedos notissima fama Insula c. There is an I le in sight of Troy And Tenedos it hight A wealthy land while Priamus state And kingdome stood vpright The best and most excellent wines in all Graecia are made at Chios and Tenedos There is also a City in the same I le called Tenedos built by Tenes In this Iland was the Temple of Neptune Ouer against Tenedos is Troy which is also called Troas or Troada whereof I can speake no more but this that hath béene long since written Iam seges est vbi Troia fuit That is Waste lie the wals that were so good And corne now growes where Troy towne stood And againe as Virgill speaketh fuit Ilium ingens Gloria Teucrorum That is The City of Troy called Ilium of Ilus who enlarged the same did florish and the glory of the Troians was great And finally O iam periere ruinae The very ruines of it are come to ruine The Sea betwéene Moeotis and Tenedos is called Pontus A little beyond Troy we entered the strait of Hellespont which is a narrow sea called Hellespontus of Helle. It lieth betwéene the Aegean Sea and Propontis and parteth Europe from Asia It is not now called by the name of Hellespont but it is called now The Castles for there are still two Castles which were of old called Sestos and Abydos one on the one side of the Helispont the other on the other side erected in memory of the loue of Leander and Hera ouer which narrow sea he often swomme vnto her and was in the end drowned The riuer Scamander runneth by the Castles Mayto is still a towne ouer against Abydos but on the same side as Seste There is made great store of good wine which is red in colour in taste like claret wine and sugar and yet they put no sugar into it for it is pleasant of it selfe Héere our Merchants ships vsually take in wine for their prouision There are very many wind milles there hauing ten wings a piece The strength of Constantinople consistet chiefly in these two Castles for these Castles are well fortified with munition and are to examine all shippes that passe by from whence they came and whither they would and there they are to pay a tribute to the King If any Ships refuse to stay from the Castles they will shoote them through But if these Castles were battered down Constantinople and all the countrey thereabouts might be easily wonne Notwithstanding these Castles a small flight to kéepe the narrow seas betwixt Chios and the Castles might in short time famish all that countrey for the greatest part of their prouision for Rice and other Corne commeth from Alexandria and those parts with the Gazenda of the great Turk but I leaue this to martiall men and marriners Gallipolis is a great ancient Citie 20. miles distant from the Castles which are at this day called the Castles of Gallipoly in the way to Constantinople situated vpon Cherenes of Thracia at the point which looketh towards Propontis which is all the sea from the straites of Hellespont to Bosphorus Thraicus Some hold opinion that it was built by Caius Caligula And others say that it was in times past inhabited by French men for that this word Gallipoly signifieth the Citie of the Gaules or Frenchmen and for that the French men do dwell in Gaule as Nicopolis and Phillipopolis signifie the City of Nicolas and Philip. Not far from Gallipoly was that famous City Nice where the Generall Councell was held in Bythinia And néere vnto Constantinople is C●alcedon or