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as β many Guards^ being watchful Aiimals, and awaking 

 with the Leafl Noife. 



c/^J" there was no Chance of meeting, in thefe long and 

 dreery Deferts, with the leafl Hofpitality or Entertainment , 

 we were obliged to carry along with us all Things neceffary 

 for fo long and tedious a Journey. We took Care, in the 

 fir Η Tlace, to provide ourf elves with a fufficient Si^antity 

 of Goats Skins, which we filled with Water, every four 

 or five Days, or as often as we found it. Barley, with 

 a few Beans intermixed ; or elfe the Flour of one or other 

 qf them , made into Balls, was the Provender we laid in 

 for our Camels. We provided for ourfelves JVheat-Flourj 

 Bifcuit, Honey, Oyl, Vinegar, Olives, Lentils, potted Flefh^ 

 andfuch Things as would keep, during two Months, the 

 Space commonly taken up in compleating thn Journey. Nor 

 fhould the Wooden Bajon or Copper Vot be forgotten, that 

 made up our Kitchen Furniture ; the latter whereof was the 

 neceffary Utenfil for cooking our Trovifion , the other for 

 ferving it up, or kneading our unleavened Cakes, 



When we were either to boyl or bake, the Camels Dung 

 that wefound left by fome preceeding Caravan ^ was our com- 

 mon Fuel ; which, after it has been expofed a Day or two in 

 the Sun, catches Fire like Touchwood, and burns as bright 

 as Charcoal Nofooner was our Food prepared, (whether it 

 was potted Flefh, boyled with Rice', a Lentil Soup', or un- 

 leavened Cakes, ferved up with Oyl or Honey ;) than one of 

 the Arabs, after having placed himfelf upon the higheH 

 Station he could find, invites three Times ^ with a loud 

 Voice , all his Brethren:, The Sons of the Faithful, 

 to come and partake of it ; though none of them were in 

 View, or perhaps within a hundred Miles of m. This 

 Cuflom however they maintain to be always a Token of their 



I Vox Perfica eft ^Ji^jW Ckv^n, id eft. Negotiator, vel colledlive Negotiatores ; ic. 

 tota eorum Cohors fimul iter faciens, quae Arabic^ u.i»\.j CafiU vocatur. Hinc Mercatorum 

 Hofpitia publica qua: Arabibus audiunt ^^\.i. Can, Perfis ^)^^ u^rj^ Carvan Serai nomi- 

 aantur, i. e. Caravana hofpitium. Nam Serai eft quaevis Donms ampla j unde in Conftanti- 

 nopoli, Iroperatoris Palatium foeminarum Turds dicitur nomine Pcrfico Serai, Europiis 

 rainn%\>znQ Serail&c Seraglio. Via. Perit. Itiijera Mundi. Ed. T. Hjde, p. tfi. 



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