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THE PREFACE. 



of Turki{h Soldiers, with the Mofoltm or General at the 

 Head of them, were not able, or durH not at leafl protect 

 us, againft the repeated Infults and Ravages of the 



Arabs. 



But in Barbary, where the Arabs are more under 

 Suhjeciion, I rarely carried along with me more than three 

 Spahees, and a Servant ; all of m well armed : though 

 we were Sometimes obliged to augment our Numbers, par- 

 ticularly when we travelled among the independent Arabs, 

 upon the Frontiers of the neighbouring Kingdoms, or where 

 two contiguous Clans were at Variance. Thefe, and fuch 

 like (c3-V-) Harammeej, as the Free-booters are ufually 

 called, mufl be, I conjecture, what the Europeans mean 

 by Wild Arabs; notwithβanding there is no fuch Name 

 peculiar to any one Body of them \ they being all of them 

 the fame, and have all the like Inclinations, {whenever 

 a proper Opportunity or Temptation offers itfelf,) of rob- 

 bing, fir ipping, and murthering, not Strangers only, but alfa 



one another. 



However, to prevent as much as poffible the falling into 

 their Hands, the greatejl Safety for a Traveller, at all Times, 

 ίδ to be difguifed in the Habit of the Country, or drejfed like 

 one of his Spahees. For the Arabs are very jealous and 

 inquifitive ; fuf peeling all Strangers to be Spies, andjent 

 to take a Survey of thofe Lands, which, at one Time or 

 other, {as they have been taught to fear,) are to be reflored 

 to the Chriftians. 



The Horfes and Camels of thefe Countries keep generally 



one conHant Ψ ace ; the latter at the Rate of two Miles and 



an half, the other of three Geographical Miles an Hour. 



Sixty of thefe, according to my Calculation, conflitute one 



Degree of a great Circle. The Space we travelled was 



firfl of all computed by Hours, and then reduced into Miles. 



Every Evening therefore , as foon as we arrived at our 



Connack, {for fo the Spahees call the Tents or Places 



where we put up) I ufed to examine how many Hours and 



in what Dire^ion we had travelled that T>ay • making proper 



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