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The Descripticn of LarisTa and Thcssaly,
dted, but our great Empire cannot be so maintained, and is the Sultan
should now send for my Head I must be content to lay it dew n pati-
ently, not asking wherefores: and I remember his Words were that in
this Country we muss have, patienza fin a perder la teCra, e poipatien-
za , patience even to the loss of our Heads, and patience after
that.
We had frequent Memento's of Mortality, by Graves and Sepul-
chres, as we palled ; especially near Belgrade. For the Turks are com-
monly buried by the High-ways: yet their Tombs are not ordinarily
splendid, considing only of a Stone ereded at the Head and at the
Feet: yet home set up Stones of two, three or four yards high. Some
have a Turbant carved upon the Stone, at the Head ; and others
let up two Pillars of Stone; home proceed farther, and raise
the Sepulchres, as with us, and afterwards place two Pillars upon
them, one at the Head, and another at the Feet. At ^c^z# I saw
fair ones, after this manner, and two Sepulchres in one of them : but
the bed way I observed in these Parts, is by building a Pavillion sup-
ported by four Pillars. As we travelled to the South from Jagodna in
Seruia , I saw upon the side of a Hill, a large Turkisb Tomb, about
four yards long, and a square place covered by it, which the Chians
told me was the Tomb of one of their Saints, and accordingly perform-
ed his Devotions at it, and at other Places: on Thursday Nights and
Friday’s, I observed the Women tovisit the Sepulchres, and pay their
Devotions at the Tombs of their dead Friends.
This Gigantick Saint that lay buried here, was certainly a fit Man
in his time to wield the holy Club, with which the Turk does propo-
gate his Religion and Dominion, and if he were as long as his Tomb,
he was as formidable a Person as any of the Patagonian Gyants painted
upon the Southern Part os divers Maps os America with long Arrows
in their Throats. I mutt confess it seems strange to me that the Sta-
ture of Man iliould be extended to that height. Mr. VPood, an ingeni-
ous Person, who hath made very fair and accurate Maps of the Streights
of Magellan, the Issands therein, and the Coast from the River of Plate
to Baldiuia, in the South-sea, told me that he had seen divers Graves
in the Southern Parts of America near four yards long, which surpri-
zed him the more, because he had never seen any American that was
two yards high, and therefore he opened one of these long Sepulchres
from one end to the other, and found in it a Man and a Woman, so
placed, that the Womans head lay at the Mans feet, and so might rea-
ionably require a Tomb of near that length.
But to return into the rode for our diversion, we sometimes met
with Turki/b Fairs, which are ordinarily kept in some large ground,
cnclosed and divided into Streets and PasTes, according to the variety
of Commodities to be sold, where a Man may recreate himself with
multiplicity of Fripperies, and things difserent from those of our Parts,
and cannot want variety of Musick ; which, though but mean, proved
some diversion unto us. The first Fair we met with, was at Lefcoa or
Lefcovia, upon the River Liperizza in Seruia.
It was no small comfort to us, to find the Country so free from the
Plague, which we only met with at Preflina, a large Town, on part of
the Plains of Coffoua, when we came into that Place, we were enter*
tained in a very good House, and brought into a large Room, well ac-
commodated
The Descripticn of LarisTa and Thcssaly,
dted, but our great Empire cannot be so maintained, and is the Sultan
should now send for my Head I must be content to lay it dew n pati-
ently, not asking wherefores: and I remember his Words were that in
this Country we muss have, patienza fin a perder la teCra, e poipatien-
za , patience even to the loss of our Heads, and patience after
that.
We had frequent Memento's of Mortality, by Graves and Sepul-
chres, as we palled ; especially near Belgrade. For the Turks are com-
monly buried by the High-ways: yet their Tombs are not ordinarily
splendid, considing only of a Stone ereded at the Head and at the
Feet: yet home set up Stones of two, three or four yards high. Some
have a Turbant carved upon the Stone, at the Head ; and others
let up two Pillars of Stone; home proceed farther, and raise
the Sepulchres, as with us, and afterwards place two Pillars upon
them, one at the Head, and another at the Feet. At ^c^z# I saw
fair ones, after this manner, and two Sepulchres in one of them : but
the bed way I observed in these Parts, is by building a Pavillion sup-
ported by four Pillars. As we travelled to the South from Jagodna in
Seruia , I saw upon the side of a Hill, a large Turkisb Tomb, about
four yards long, and a square place covered by it, which the Chians
told me was the Tomb of one of their Saints, and accordingly perform-
ed his Devotions at it, and at other Places: on Thursday Nights and
Friday’s, I observed the Women tovisit the Sepulchres, and pay their
Devotions at the Tombs of their dead Friends.
This Gigantick Saint that lay buried here, was certainly a fit Man
in his time to wield the holy Club, with which the Turk does propo-
gate his Religion and Dominion, and if he were as long as his Tomb,
he was as formidable a Person as any of the Patagonian Gyants painted
upon the Southern Part os divers Maps os America with long Arrows
in their Throats. I mutt confess it seems strange to me that the Sta-
ture of Man iliould be extended to that height. Mr. VPood, an ingeni-
ous Person, who hath made very fair and accurate Maps of the Streights
of Magellan, the Issands therein, and the Coast from the River of Plate
to Baldiuia, in the South-sea, told me that he had seen divers Graves
in the Southern Parts of America near four yards long, which surpri-
zed him the more, because he had never seen any American that was
two yards high, and therefore he opened one of these long Sepulchres
from one end to the other, and found in it a Man and a Woman, so
placed, that the Womans head lay at the Mans feet, and so might rea-
ionably require a Tomb of near that length.
But to return into the rode for our diversion, we sometimes met
with Turki/b Fairs, which are ordinarily kept in some large ground,
cnclosed and divided into Streets and PasTes, according to the variety
of Commodities to be sold, where a Man may recreate himself with
multiplicity of Fripperies, and things difserent from those of our Parts,
and cannot want variety of Musick ; which, though but mean, proved
some diversion unto us. The first Fair we met with, was at Lefcoa or
Lefcovia, upon the River Liperizza in Seruia.
It was no small comfort to us, to find the Country so free from the
Plague, which we only met with at Preflina, a large Town, on part of
the Plains of Coffoua, when we came into that Place, we were enter*
tained in a very good House, and brought into a large Room, well ac-
commodated