AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1580. 



verily, that nature hath therein shewed all her cunning, 

 in making this place under the mountaine of pardons so 

 broad and pleasant. Upon the side towards Mecca there 

 are many pipes of water cleare, faire, and fresh, and above 

 all most wholesome, falling down into certaine vessels 

 made of purpose, where the people refresh and wash 

 themselves, and water their cattel. And when Adam and 

 Evah were cast out of paradise by the angel of the Lord, 

 the Mahumetans say, they came to inhabite this litle 

 mountaine of pardons. Also they say, that they had lost 

 one another, and were seperated for the space of 40. 

 yeeres, and in the end met at this place with great joy 

 & gladnesse, and builded a litle house upon the top of 

 this mountaine, the which at this day they call Beyt 

 Adam, that is to say, the house of Adam. 



Of the three Carovans. 



THe same day that the Carovan of Cairo commeth 

 to this place, hither come 2. Carovans also, one of 

 Damasco, the other of Arabia, and in like maner all the 

 inhabitants for ten dayes journey round about, so that 

 at one time there is to be seen above 200000. persons, 

 and more then 300000. cattell. Now all this company 

 meeting together in this place the night before the feast, 

 the three hostes cast themselves into a triangle, setting 

 the mountaine in the midst of them: and all that night 

 there is nothing to be heard nor scene, but gunshot and 

 fireworkes of sundry sortes, with such singing, sounding, 

 shouting, halowing, rumors, feasting, and triumphing, as 

 is wonderfull. After this, the day of the feast being 

 come, they are all at rest and silence, and that day they 

 attend on no other thing, then to sacrifice oblations and 

 prayers unto God, and in the evening all they which 

 have horses mount thereon, and approch as nigh unto 

 the mountaine as they can, and those which have no 

 horses make the best shift they can on foote, giving ever 

 unto the captaine of Cairo the chiefe place, the second 

 to the captaine of Damasco, and the third to the captaine 



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