They affect finery and neatness in their Cloths and Shashes; not so much as a spot to be seen upon them, and in rainy or suspicious Weather, are very careful how they go abroad without their _Yamurlicks_, which is a kind of Coat they throw over their Heads at such times. Their Pans and Dishes are for the most part of Copper, but so handsomly Tinn'd over, that they look like Silver. There are thousands of Gypsies or _Zinganies_ in _Turky_, who live the same idle nasty kind of Life, as they do in _Christendom_, and pretend to the same Art of telling Fortunes; and are look'd upon as the Off-scouring of Mankind. It is accounted the extremest point of human Misery to be a Slave to any of this sort of Cattel. The _Haggi_, or Pilgrims, that have been at _Mecca_ and _Medina_, forbear to drink Wine most Religiously, out of a perswasion, that one drop would efface all the Merits of that troublesome and expensive Journey; and some have been possess'd with such a mad Zeal, that they have blinded themselves after their having been bless'd with the sight of _Mahomet_'s Sepulcher. After _Jatzih_, that is, an Hour and a half in the Night, throughout the whole Year, there is as great a silence in the Streets as at Midnight: The Emperor _Achmet_ in the Year 1611. having made an Order, that no one should presume to be out of his House after that time; which is to this Day most punctually observed. The _Bostangi bashi_, who has the Command of all the _Agiamoglans_ in the _Seraglio_, the _Topgibashi_ or such great Officers attended with a great Train of armed Men, walking the Rounds, and drubbing such as they find abroad at unseasonable Hours of what Nation or Quality soever, except Physicians, Chyrurgeons, and Apothecaries, whom they allow at all times to visit the Sick. The _Turkmans_, (for so they are peculiarly called, as if they were the true Descendents of the _Old Turks_ or _Scythians_, whose wandering kind of Life is described by the Poet; Ἁμαξόβιοι { _Nulla domus, plaustris habitant, migrare per arva { Mos, atq; errantes circumvectare penates._)