_Turks_, their notions about wine-drinking, i. 88; about houses, 90; consider the left-hand the place of honour, 92; their methods of dividing time, 101; attach no distinction to birth, i. 104, 154; their fondness for flowers, 108; and money, _ib._; their reverence for paper and the reasons for it, 110; their superstitions as to unclean food, 124, 134; their favourite colours, 144; their notions about omens, _ib._, 269; surprised at the Germans’ fishing, 145; their frugal fare, 146; their notions of chronology, 149; how promotion is regulated among them, 155; their dress, _ib._; their horror of pigs, 205; slavery among them, 209-211; their kindness to animals, 224; prefer cats to dogs and why, 225; ransom birds from bird-catchers, 227; some think it wrong to keep birds in cages, _ib._; their marriage laws, 229; do not inquire closely into crimes, but punish them severely if detected, 232; think it their duty to make one offer to a Christian of conversion to their religion, 235; their religious differences with the Persians, _ib._; their skill in archery and mode of shooting and practising, 253-255; their readiness to accept foreign inventions and to adopt various Christian customs, 255-256; their Parthian tactics, 257; their treatment of ambassadors, 261; believe that the souls of those killed in battle ascend to heaven, 289; their notions of the Carnival, 290; their fast, _ib._; dislike to eat or drink standing, 291; their endurance under the bastinado, 294; their reverent behaviour at their prayers, 303; impression made on them by the Spanish successes, 318; their exultation at their victory, 319; their taunts of the prisoners, 322; how they treat prisoners, 326; their recklessness about infection, 341; disturbed at Basilicus’ invasion of Moldavia, 349; at dinners carry off things for their wives and children, 375; their notions about predestination, 341, 382-383; pray for Busbecq’s conversion, 384; league against them suggested to divert the restless spirits of France, ii. 49; their victories over the Persians render them formidable, 243-244, and _note_; offer to assist Navarre, 257, and _note_ _Uzes_, Duc de, commands for the King at Aigues-Mortes, ii. 42 _Varna_, battle of, i. 407, and _note_