in the Mahometan customs, a yearly festival of the Turks, which they keep after the fast of Ramazan.

The Mahometans have two bairams, the great and the little. The little bairam holds for three days, and is seventy days after the first, which follows immediately the ramazan. During the bairam, the people leave their work for three days, make presents to one another, and spend the time with great manifestations of joy. If the day after ramazan should be so cloudy as to prevent the sight of the new moon, the bairam is put off to the next day, when it is kept, even if the moon should still be obscured; when they celebrate this feast, after numerous ceremonies, or rather strange mimickries, in their mosque, it is concluded with a solemn prayer against the infidels, to extirpate Christian princes, or to arm them against one another, that they may have an opportunity to extend the borders of their law.