themselves and their Country by their Valour; and also Recruits were more cheerfully and willingly rais'd, being sure to be sent to assist their own Country-Men and Acquaintances.
Nor was there any Danger of such Bodies uniting in Seditions in their own Province, being never disbanded; nor yet abroad in the Field, where their Strength was so small and inconsiderable, in respect of the whole Army, and their Country still answerable for their Conduct.
In the next place, (besides the popular Tenets of the Turks, that every one's Fate is writ on his Forehead, and is inevitable, and all who die in the War go strait to Paradise) he took care to breed up a contempt of Death or Danger in them, by remitting the half of all Taxes to the Widows and Children of the Slain, and by doubling the Pay of all that were wounded in Battle, as well as by allowing an anuual Stipend for Life, to all who, lost their Limbs, Eyes, or were any ways disabled . This he settled according to the following Table; for one Eye 5 l. a Year of our Money for Life, for both Eyes 12 l. for the right Arm 5 l. the left 3 l. for both 12 l. for their Hands something less, but with lit-tle
