ining in circuit not aboue
two miles, hauing therein but one castle, which is olde and weake, guarded
by an Aga with fifty pieces of artillery, but not very good. The houses
thereof are faire and well situated, built of lime and stone, and in the
midst of the city stands a fouresquare Mosquita, not so great as that of
Mecca, but more goodly, rich, and sumptuous in building. Within the same in
a corner thereof is a tombe built vpon foure pillers with a vault, as if it
were vnder a pauement, which bindeth all the foure pillers together. The
tombe is so high, that it farre exceedeth in heighth the Mosquita, being
couered with lead, and the top all inamelled with golde, with an halfe
moone vpon the top: and within the pauement it is all very artificially
wrought with golde. Below there are round about very great staires of yron
ascending vp vntill the midst of the pillers, and in the very midst thereof
is buried the body of Mahomet, and not in a chest of yron cleauing to the
adamant, as many affirme that know not the trueth thereof. Moreouer, ouer
the body they haue built a tombe of speckled stone a brace and a halfe
high, [Marginal note: Or, a fathom.] and ouer the same another of Legmame
fouresquare in maner of a pyramis. After this, round about the sepulture
there hangeth a curtaine of silke, which letteth the sight of those without
that they cannot see the sepulture. Beyond this in the same Mosquita are
other two sepulchres couered with greene cloth, and in the one of them is
buried Fatma the daughter of Mahomet, and Alli is buried in the other, who
was the husband of the sayd Fatma. The attendants vpon these sepulchres are
fifty eunuches white and tawny, neither is it granted to any of them to
enter within the tombe, sauing to three white eunuches the oldest and best
of credit; vnto whom it is lawfull to enter but twise in the day, to light
the lamps, and to doe other seruices. All the other eunuchs attend without
to the seruice of the Mosquita, and the other two sepulchres of Fatma, and
Alli, where euery one may go and touch at his pleasure, and take of the
earth for deuotion, as many do.

Of things without the City.

Without the city and on euery side are most faire gardens, with many
fountaines of most sweet water, infinite pondes, abundance of fruit, with
much honest liuing, so that this place is very pleasant and delightfull.
This city hath three gates, one of which is an hospitall caused to be built
by Cassachi