Whilst they are thus given to Idleness and Luxury, Dissoluteness must needs follow; and, to speak Truth, Chastity is a Virtue rarely found among them. The Husband will offer his own Wife or his Sister, to the Pleasure of a Stranger; and, if they can but thus please their Wives, they care for little else. Neither are their Daughters kept under any stricter Discipline. ’Tis hard to find a Damsel unvitiated among them; nay, some have born Children at ten Years old; and, if you scruple to believe it, because of the smallness of their Bodies, at your Request they will produce you an Infant, not much bigger than a large Frog. Whereas, otherwise, they are a tall and comely bodied People. But they are so void of all Civility and courteous Behaviour, that they think they pay you a great Compliment, if among other Barbarities, when they meet you, they make a certain Sound from their Throats like Belching. In one thing they shew a great Dexterity of Wit, and that is in Stealing. He that pilfers most neatly, is counted a brave Fellow; but he that does it bungingly, is esteemed a Dunce and a Blockhead, not worthy to live; and even his own Father or his Son, will sell or exchange him for a small Matter to Merchant-strangers, to be carried away they care not whither. An _Italian_ Merchant who had been in these Parts, told me, that a certain Priest of theirs, stole his Knife as he was in their Temple. He perceived the Theft, but dissembling it, gave him the Sheath also, that he might put up his stol’n Ware. When they go into their Temples, they have some esteem for the Images of the Virgin _Mary_, of _Peter_ and _Paul_, and other Saints; but their greatest Veneration is for the Image of St. _George_ on Horseback. They fall down prostrate before it, kissing every part of it; even his Horse’s Shoes. They say, he was a valiant Man, a great Warrior, that in a single Combat did openly fight Hand to Hand with the _Devil_, and either conquer’d, or, at least, foil’d him. I’ll acquaint you with one Passage more, which you cannot but stand amazed at. ’Tis this. The Princes of the East are always presented with Gifts at any Audience. _Dadianus_, in compliance with this Custom, brought _Solyman_ a Cup or Dish of Carbuncle, so bright and shining, that in a dark Night a Man might travel by the Light of it, as well as at Noon-day. I cannot believe it, you’ll say: Nor do I: Neither can I be angry with you for suspending your Belief; but, whatever you and I do, let me tell you, there are enough that do believe it. The more judicious think it to be a small Goblet of _Carbuncle_, or _Granate_, which was lost in Shipwrack, when a certain Prince of _Persia_ was flying from his Father to _Constantinople_, and driven, by a Tempest, to the _Colchian_ Shore, where it was taken up. He brought also 20 white _Hawks_, called _Falcons_, there being Plenty of them in that Country of _Colchis_.