The Housarts are Lancers, and all of them Gentlemen of considerable Estates, as far as 50000 Livers a Year ； are excellently mounted, the worst of their Horses worth 200 Ducats, being all Turkish Horses brought from Caramania, a Province in Anatolia. Every one of them serves with five Horses, for in a Company of a hundred Lancers, there are but twenty Masters, who all march in the Front, being File-leaders ; and the four other Ranks are their Servants each in his File. Their Lances are nineteen foot long, the Spear hollow, the rest of so lid Wood. At the point of their Lances they wear a Streamer or Flag red and white, or blue and green, or black and white, but always of two Colours, sous or five Ells long, which, I suppose, is to fright the Enemies Horses, for when they have couch'd their Lances, running with all the swiftness their Horses heels can carry them, these Streamers twirle about, and discompose the Enemies Horses they are to charge. They are arm'd Back and Breast...
