AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1580. 



Christians. To whom the prophet answered, saying : 

 Turne againe, and all those which you shall finde with 

 their faces downeward, leave them, because all they are 

 misbeleevers ; and the other which you shall finde with 

 their faces turned upward, them burie, for they are the 

 true Musulmani, and so his commaundement was done. 

 The next morning by Sunne rising, the Carovan 

 arriveth at Bedrihonem, in which place every man 

 washeth himselfe from toppe to toe, as well men as 

 women, and leaving off their apparell, having each one a 

 cloth about their privities, called in their tongue Photah, 

 and another white one upon their shoulders, all which can 

 goe to Mecca in this habite, do so, and are thought to 

 merite more then the other, but they which cannot doe 

 so make a vowe to sacrifice a Ramme at the mountaine of 

 pardons : and after they bee washed, it is not lawfull for 

 [II. i. 207.] any man or woman to kill either flea or lowse with their 

 handes, neither yet to take them with their nailes, untill 

 they have accomplished their vowed orations in the 

 mountaine of pardons abovesayd : and therefore they cary 

 with them certaine stickes made of purpose in maner of 

 a File, called in their language Area, Cassah Guch, with 

 which they grate their shoulders. And so the Carovan 

 marching, commeth within two miles of Mecca where 

 they rest that night. In the morning at the breake of 

 day, with all pompe possible they set forward toward 

 Mecca, and drawing neere thereunto, the Seripho issueth 

 foorth of the citie with his guard, accompanied with an 

 infinite number of people, shouting, and making great 

 triumph. And being come out of the citie a boweshoote 

 into a faire field, where a great multitude of tents are 

 pitched, and in the middest the pavillion of the captaine, 

 who meeting with the Serifo, after salutations on each 

 side, they light from their horses and enter into the 

 pavillion, where the king of Mecca depriveth himselfe of 

 all authoritie and power, and committeth the same to 

 the above-named captaine, giving him full licence and 

 authoritie to commaund, governe, and minister justice 



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