AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1580. 



he exhorteth them unto the love of God, and to prayer 

 and almes. The sermon being done at the Sunne-setting 

 they make 3. prayers, namely, the first for the Serifo, the 

 second for the Grand Signior with his hoste, and the 

 third for all the people : to which prayers all with one 

 voyce cry saying; Amni Ja Alia, Amni Ja Alia, that is 

 to say, Be it so Lord, be it so Lord. Thus having had 

 the Santones blessing and saluted the Mountaine of 

 pardons, they returne the way they came unto Mina, 

 whereof wee have made mention. In returning at the 

 end of the plaine are the abovesaid 4. pillers, to wit, two 

 on ech side of the way, through the midst whereof they 

 say it is needfull that every one passe, saying, that who 

 so passeth without looseth all that merit which in his 

 pilgrimage he had gotten. Also from the mountaine of 

 pardons until they be passed the said pillers none dare 

 looke backward, for feare least the sinnes which he hath 

 left in the mountains returne to him againe. Being past 

 these pillers every one lighteth downe, seeking in this 

 sandy field 50. or 60. litle stones, which being gathered, 

 and bound in an handkerchiffe they carry to the above- 

 said place of Mina, where they stay 5. dayes, because at 

 that time there is a faire free and franke of al custome. 

 And in this place are other 3. pillers, not together, but 

 set in divers places, where (as their prophet saith) were 

 the three apparitions which the divel made unto Abraham, 

 and to Ismael his sonne ; for amongst them they make 

 no mention of Isaac, as if he had never bene borne. So 

 they say, that the blessed God having commanded Abra- 

 ham his faithfull servant to sacrifice his first begotten 

 Ismael, the old Abraham went to do according to Gods 

 wil, and met with the infernal enemie in the shape of a 

 man, and being of him demanded whither he went, he 

 answered, that he went to sacrifice his sonne Ismael, as 

 God had commanded him. Against whom the divel 

 exclaiming said : Oh doting old man, sith God in thine 

 old age hath marveilously given thee this son (in whom 

 all nations shalbe blessed) wherefore giving credite unto 



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