{MN-2} _The Description of the_ Dissabacca _Sea._ {MN} To her unkind Brother, this kind Lady writ so much for his good usage, that he half expected, as much as she intended; for she told him, he should there but sojourn to learn the Language, and what it was to be a _Turk,_ till time made her Master of her self. But the _Tymor,_ her Brother, diverted all this to the worst of Cruelty; for within an hour after his arrival, he caused his _Drubman_ to strip him naked, and shave his Head and Beard so bare as his Hand, a great Ring of Iron, with a long stalk bowed like a Sickle, revitted about his Neck, and a Coat made of _Ulgries_ Hair, guarded about with a piece of an undrest Skin. There were many more Christian Slaves, and near an hundred _Forsados_ of _Turks_ and _Moors,_ and he being the last, was slave of Slaves to them all. Among these slavish Fortunes, there was no great choice; for the best was so bad, a Dog could hardly have lived to endure, and yet for all their pains and labours, no more regarded than a Beast. * * * * * {MN} Smith's _usage in_ Tartaria. * * * * * CHAP. XIII. _The_ Turks _diet; the Slaves diet; the attire of the_ Tartars; _and manner of Wars and Religions, &c._ {MN-1} The _Tymor_ and his Friends fed upon Pillaw, which is, boiled Rice and Garnances with little bits of Mutton or Buckones, which is Roasted pieces of Horse, Bull, Ulgrie, or any Beasts. Samboyses and Muselbit are great Dainties, and yet but round Pies, full of all sorts of Flesh, they can get chopped with variety of Herbs. Their best Drink is Coffee, of a grain they call _Coava,_ boiled with Water; and _Sherbeck,_ which is only Honey and Water; Mares Milk, or the Milk of any Beast, they hold restorative: but all the Commonalty drink pure Water. {MN-2} Their Bread is made of this _Coava,_ which is a kind of black Wheat, and Cuskus a small white Seed, like _Millia_ in _Biskay:_ But our common Victuals, the entrails of Horse and Ulgries; of this cut in small pieces, they will fill a great Cauldron, and being boiled with _Cuskus,_ and put in great Bowls in the form of Chaffing-dishes, they sit round about it on the Ground, after they have raked it thorow, so oft as they please with their foul Fists, the remainder was for the _Christian_ Slaves. Some of this Broth, they would temper with _Cuskus_ pounded, and putting the Fire off from the Hearth, pour there a Bowl full, then cover it with Coals till it be baked, which stewed with the remainder of the Broth, and some small pieces of Flesh, was an extraordinary Dainty. * * * * * {MN-1} _The_ Tymor's _Diet of_ Cambia, _is as the_ Turks. {MN-2} _The Slaves Diet._