Having acquainted you thus far with the _Turkish_ Exercises, let me add one more. They have a Custom derived from the _Parthians_, that they counterfeit flying away on Horseback, and presently turn back and kill their unwary Pursuers. The way they learn to do it, is this: They erect a high Pole, almost in plain Ground, with a brass Globe on the top of it; about this they spur their Horses, and having got a little beyond, the Horse still galloping, they presently turn about, and flying along, shoot an Arrow into that Globe. The frequent Use hereof makes them expect, that their Bow being turn’d in their Flight, their unwary Enemy is shot through. ’Tis time now, you’ll say, that I return to my Lodging, lest my Keeper should be angry with me. Well, then; what time is left me from beholding these Exercises, I bestow entirely on my Books, or in Conferences with my Friends the Citizens of _Pera_, originally _Genoese_, or others; yet not without the leave of my _Chiauxes_. These Fellows are not always in the same Humour; they have their lucid Intervals, in which they are more tractable than at other times. When ’tis fair Weather with them, the _Ragustæans_, the _Florentines_, the _Venetians_, and sometimes the _Greeks_, with other Nations, come to visit me, on one Account or another; sometimes, also, I converse with Men of more remote Countries, that come hither, whose Conversation much delights me. A few Months ago, there came hither a Merchant from _Dantzick_, who had the sole vending of Amber. He wondred to what Use the _Turks_ could put so great a Quantity of it, as they bought; or, whither they sent it: At last he was told, that they sent it into _Persia_, where that kind of Juice, or Bitumen, is highly esteemed; for they adorn Parlors, Studies, and Temples with it. He bestowed upon me, a wooden Vessel full of that Liquor, they call _Juppenbier_. It was most excellent Stuff: But I laughed heartily at my Guests, both _Greeks_ and _Italians_, who, not being accustomed to this Liquor, could not tell what to call it. At length, because I told them ’twas good to preserve Health, they thought it was some medicinal Drug, and called it a _Syrup_; but they sipp’d and syrupp’d it about so long, that, at one Dinner, they emptied my Barrel. This Liberty my _Chiauxes_ (who now and then are changed) do sometimes give me. They are not only willing I should go abroad, but often invite me so to do: But I, as I told you before, always refuse them, that so they may not think they can do me either good or hurt; and the Pretence I make use of is this, that I have tarried so long at Home, that now I am grown to the Walls of the House, so that if I go forth, it would fall. I will not, therefore, stir abroad, say I, till I go for good and all into my own Country. As for my Family, I am glad that they go abroad sometimes, for thereby they learn to bear the long Absence from their own Country, the better.