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The Description os Larissa and ThesTaly.
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the Font or Bason is generally made of plain Stone, and placed lew
upon the Floor of the Church ; and this is more convenient for them,
in their baptizing of Infants. For they put the Child into the Water,
and are not contented with a meer sprinkling upon the Fore-head of 11
But the Priest, after he hath blested the Water, and dipped a Cruci-
fix into it three times, he takes the naked Child by one Ann, and sets
it into the Font up to the Wast, and with his other Hand laves the
Water thrice over its Head; and this hath been their Way of bapti-
zing for many hundred Years. Nor could that otherwise have happen-
ed, which is reported of the Emperor, Conflantine the sixth, Conftanti-
mis [ext us, diet us Copronymus, quod Inf ans dam baptizareiur aquam fa-
cram ventris folutione maculasset. The dipping of the naked Body in
Water being apt to move it. I saw some of their Children baptized be-
fore the Navel siring was fallen oft.
The Fields about this Place are planted with Fines, Cotton and Se-
samum. The Emperors Resident Illuftrijsimo Signore di Cafa nova, was
well accommodated here with a fair House, and had thirty Turks and
Christians in his Family, and two Janizaries attending at the Gate,
good humored and fair conditioned Men, as could be wiflied. The Re-
sident was a Milanefe by birth, a grave and sober Person, somewhat
melancholy, much addicted to his Book and reading, but very civil
and courteous. He dined and supped alone by himself; his Secreta-
ry, Interpreters, and others of his Family, had another Place of repast,
and were always west provided, and served after the Turkifh man-
ner.
The Ambasiador also of Ragufa made choice of the same Town ,• and
their followers often met each other, and many courteous salutes pas-
sed between them; but they were only by civil Mesiages, for they ne-
ver met, upon a punctilio, which kept them asunder; the Ragufa
Ambassador pretending a right to take the first place, he being in the
quality of an Ambastador, the other but of a Resident; although he
were much despised for it by the Germans, and his Masters looked up-
on, but as Gentlemen of the Sette Bandiere, or Persons that were
and had been Subjects and Tributaries under seven Masters, or Sove-
reign Princes.
I must not forget Demetrius, a Greek Merchant of Tomovo, in whom
I thought I beheld the Humor of the old Greeks, we were divers
times entertained at his House with much generosity, and hearty free-
dom. He desired us to enjoy his Houfe freely, and to be merry after
the Mode of our own Countries: and, asanespecial favour, brought
his two Daughters to bid us welcome: and we took the liberty, after
the Custom of France, Holland and England, to salute them ; they
were handsomly attired, after the manner of their Country ; their
Hair brayded and hanging down their back; their Shooes or Slip-
pers painted, their Nails coloured of a reddish colour with Cna or
Alcanna', the Leaves of which Plant, powdred and steeped in Water
and Wine, and layed a Night upon their Nails, leaves this Tindture,
and is much used in Turkey; where some delight also to colour the
Mains and Tails of their Horses. The Grecians of Scio also, who
wear Gloves (it being a rare thing to see any here ) do colour their
Gloves also upon thole Parts which cover their Nails. Cna is a great
Commodity in the Turkifb Dominions, brought out of Arabia and
... ... ' . "-' 1 .. ■ —~
The Description os Larissa and ThesTaly.
___1 .■■. *.«. . --—-.--------
the Font or Bason is generally made of plain Stone, and placed lew
upon the Floor of the Church ; and this is more convenient for them,
in their baptizing of Infants. For they put the Child into the Water,
and are not contented with a meer sprinkling upon the Fore-head of 11
But the Priest, after he hath blested the Water, and dipped a Cruci-
fix into it three times, he takes the naked Child by one Ann, and sets
it into the Font up to the Wast, and with his other Hand laves the
Water thrice over its Head; and this hath been their Way of bapti-
zing for many hundred Years. Nor could that otherwise have happen-
ed, which is reported of the Emperor, Conflantine the sixth, Conftanti-
mis [ext us, diet us Copronymus, quod Inf ans dam baptizareiur aquam fa-
cram ventris folutione maculasset. The dipping of the naked Body in
Water being apt to move it. I saw some of their Children baptized be-
fore the Navel siring was fallen oft.
The Fields about this Place are planted with Fines, Cotton and Se-
samum. The Emperors Resident Illuftrijsimo Signore di Cafa nova, was
well accommodated here with a fair House, and had thirty Turks and
Christians in his Family, and two Janizaries attending at the Gate,
good humored and fair conditioned Men, as could be wiflied. The Re-
sident was a Milanefe by birth, a grave and sober Person, somewhat
melancholy, much addicted to his Book and reading, but very civil
and courteous. He dined and supped alone by himself; his Secreta-
ry, Interpreters, and others of his Family, had another Place of repast,
and were always west provided, and served after the Turkifh man-
ner.
The Ambasiador also of Ragufa made choice of the same Town ,• and
their followers often met each other, and many courteous salutes pas-
sed between them; but they were only by civil Mesiages, for they ne-
ver met, upon a punctilio, which kept them asunder; the Ragufa
Ambassador pretending a right to take the first place, he being in the
quality of an Ambastador, the other but of a Resident; although he
were much despised for it by the Germans, and his Masters looked up-
on, but as Gentlemen of the Sette Bandiere, or Persons that were
and had been Subjects and Tributaries under seven Masters, or Sove-
reign Princes.
I must not forget Demetrius, a Greek Merchant of Tomovo, in whom
I thought I beheld the Humor of the old Greeks, we were divers
times entertained at his House with much generosity, and hearty free-
dom. He desired us to enjoy his Houfe freely, and to be merry after
the Mode of our own Countries: and, asanespecial favour, brought
his two Daughters to bid us welcome: and we took the liberty, after
the Custom of France, Holland and England, to salute them ; they
were handsomly attired, after the manner of their Country ; their
Hair brayded and hanging down their back; their Shooes or Slip-
pers painted, their Nails coloured of a reddish colour with Cna or
Alcanna', the Leaves of which Plant, powdred and steeped in Water
and Wine, and layed a Night upon their Nails, leaves this Tindture,
and is much used in Turkey; where some delight also to colour the
Mains and Tails of their Horses. The Grecians of Scio also, who
wear Gloves (it being a rare thing to see any here ) do colour their
Gloves also upon thole Parts which cover their Nails. Cna is a great
Commodity in the Turkifb Dominions, brought out of Arabia and