In the Day of Judgment, say they, when _Mahomet_ shall call up his Followers from their _Purgatory_, (to which they were condemned for their Sins) to Heaven, to be there made Partakers of Eternal Blessedness; there will no Way be left for them to come to their Prophet, but over an huge red-hot Iron Grate, which they must run over bare-foot, (how painfully, you may guess, when you imagine a Cock to skip thro’ hot-burning Coals.) But at that Instant, (believe it if you can!) all those Bundles of Papers, which they have preserved from being trod upon, will immediately appear, and put themselves under their Feet; by which Means they will pass the red-hot Iron-Grate with less Damage; so necessary do they count the Work of saving a little Paper. And, to add to the Story, I remember that my _Turkish_ Guides were once very angry with my Servants, for making use of Paper to cleanse their _Posteriors_, and thereupon made a grievous Complaint to me of their horrid Offence therein: I had no Way to put them off, but by telling them, ’twas no Wonder my Servants did such strange Things, seeing they also used to eat Swines Flesh, which the _Turks_ abhor. Thus I have given you a Taste of the _Turkish_ Superstition; I shall add, That they account it a damnable Sin, if any of their own People chance (though unwillingly) to sit upon the _Alcoran_, (which is a Book containing the Rites of their Religion) and, if a _Christian_ do it, ’tis Death by their Law. Moreover, they will not suffer _Rose-Leaves_ to lie upon the Ground, because, as the Ancients did fable, the Roses spring out of the Blood of _Venus_; so the _Turks_ hold, That it had its Rise from the Sweat of _Mahomet_. I came to _Constantinople_ on the 20th Day of _January_, and there found my Collegues above-mentioned, _Anthony Wrantzius_ and _Francis Zay_; as for the _Grand Seignior_ himself, he was, at that Time, at the Head of his Army in _Asia_, and had only left at _Constantinople_, _Ebrahim Bashaw_, an Eunuch, as Governor of the City, and _Rustan_, but deprived of his Vizier-ship; however I gave him a Visit and made him Presents, as being mindful of his former Dignity, and of the fair Prospect there was of his speedy Restitution thereunto.