In
The Heat Of The Day, Every One Keeps Within Doors, Where Those Of Any
Rank Lie On Couches, Or Sit Cross-Legged On Carpets, Having Servants
About Them, Who Beat The Air With Fans Of Stiffened Leather, Or The
Like, To Cool Them.
While thus taking their ease, they often call their
barbers, who tenderly grip and beat upon their arms and other parts of
their bodies, instead of exercise, to stir the blood.
This is a most
gratifying thing, and is much used in this hot climate.
The Mahometans and Hindoos are much to be commended for their
truthfulness as servants; for a stranger may safely travel alone among
them with a great charge of money or goods, all through the country,
having them for his guard, and will never be neglected or injured by
them. They follow their masters on foot, carrying swords and bucklers,
or bows and arrows, for their defence; and so plentiful are provisions
in this country, that one may hire them on very easy terms, as they do
not desire more than five shillings each moon, paid the day after the
change, to provide themselves in all necessaries; and for this small
pittance give diligent and faithful service. Such is their filial piety,
that they will often give the half of these pitiful wages to their
parents, to relieve their necessities, preferring almost to famish
themselves rather than see them want.
Both among the Mahometans and Hindoos there are many men of most
undaunted courage.
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