The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger.

Of other religious Turkes leading a solitary life amongst beastes.

Chap. 19.

THere are moreouer throughout whole Turkie another sect of religious, dwelling within the towns and villages in cer∣tayne shoppes: the walles whereof they do couer with skinnes of diuers wilde beastes: as of oxen, goats, harts, beares and wolues. And about the walles thereof they doe fasten and hang vpon the hornes of the same beastes a great number of tallow candles. And in the midst of this their sacred shoppe standeth a stoole couered with a greene cloth or couering, and vpon the same a greate latten candlesticke without any candle or tape: which shew they make to declare themselues true followers of the law of Mahomet.

Moreouer, they haue painted a Cemiterre, houng by the mid∣dest, in memory and reuerence of the brother in law, & succes∣sor of Mahomet called Haly, of whom they do say, as we doe of Beuis of Hamptō, miraculous fables, saying that with the same Cemiterre he cut the moūtains & rocks asunder: moreouer, to shew thēselues more strange & maruellous, they bring vp and feed certain wild beasts, as wolues, beares, harts, eagles & rauēs to declare that they haue abandoned the worlde, to liue a so∣litary life amongst beasts: wherein their false hypocrisie is too openly shewed, for whereas they say they doe liue a solitary life, they resort and frequent in the middest of most populous townes and villages, and professing to liue solitarily amongest wild beasts, they doe tame thē & accustome them to liue wyth them for they doe not dwell in Hermitages solitarily, but a∣mo••gst great assembly of people, and likewise do not liue with the wild beasts, but the wild beasts do liue with thē, except they do mean that these beastly & barbarous Turks, their cōpanions are the same wild beasts, amonst the which they do say they do liue. These good religious people thus liuing on the profite

of their shop, and when soeuer that there is not brought suffici∣ently vnto them for the maintenance of their ydle life, thē they come forth out of their denne, (euen as the wolfe pinched with hunger commeth out of the wood) and goe about the streetes asking of almes, leading in their hande a Beare or Harte with a bell about his necke, as yee may see in the figure following. Beholde then how vnder colour of religion, they doe disguyse their damnable and more then euident hipocrisie. And of these gallaunt companions I haue seene a great manye in Constanti∣nople, but many more in Andrinopole.

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A religious Turke.