^.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1580. 



you shall see certaine women which intend to goe on this 

 voiage accompanied with their parents and friends mounted 

 upon Camels, adorned with so many tryfles, tassels, and 

 knots, that in beholding the same a man cannot refraine 

 from laughter. The last night before their departure 

 they make great feasting and triumph within the Carovan, 

 with castles and other infinite devises of fireworke, the 

 Janizaries alwayes standing round about the tent of the 

 Captaine with such shouting and joy, that on every side 

 the earth resoundeth, and this night they discharge all 

 their ordinance, foure or sixe times, and after at the breake 

 of the day upon the sound of a trumpet they march for- 

 ward on their way. 



What times the Carovan travelleth, and when 



it resteth. 



IT is to be noted, that from Cairo to Mecca they make 

 40 dayes journey or thereabout, & the same great 

 dayes journeies. For the custome of the Carovan is to 

 travell much and rest little, and ordinarily they journey in 

 this maner : They travell from two a clocke in the morn- 

 ing untill the sunne rising, then having rested till noone, 

 they set forward, and so continue till night, & then also 

 rest againe, as is abovesaid, till two of the clocke : and 

 this order they observe untill the end of the voiage, 

 never changing the same, except in some places, whereof 

 we will hereafter speake, where for respect of water they 

 rest sometimes a day and an halfe, and this they observe 

 to refresh themselves, otherwise both man and beast 

 would die. 



In what order the Carovan travelleth. 



THe maner and order which the Carovan observeth in 

 marching is this. It goeth divided into three parts, 

 to wit, the foreward, the maine battell, and the rereward. 

 In the foreward go the 8 Pilots before with a Chaus, 

 which hath foure knaves, & ech knave carrieth a sinew of 

 a bul, to the end that if occasion requireth, ye bastonado 



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