ii THEPREFACE. 



fuch material Circumflances and Occurrences , as might have 

 made up the Diary-Part of His Travels, 



The Reader therefore is to he informed^ that in the /eve- 

 ral maritime Towns of Barbary and the Levant^ where 

 the Britifli Factories are eftahlifloed, I was entertained 

 with extraordinary Marks of Generofity and Friendjhip ; 

 having the Ufe not only of their Houfes, hut of their Horjes 

 alfoy their ^z.m'S2iX\t'?> and Servants. ^.My heft. Acknow- 

 ledgments therefore are due, upon this Account^ to the worthy 

 Gentlemen, Mr. Conful C^rcw and his Brother, at Tripoly 

 in Syria; to the late Meffteurs Thomas Ufgate and 

 French, and to Mr. John Ufgate, at Acre ; to the late 

 Mr. Conful Mooi'Q and his Deputy Mr. Damarel at Kur ο 

 ^;/^ Alexandria ; to CMeJ/ieurs L•^wrencQ andliudion, 

 the Britilh and Dutch Confuls, at Tunis ; and to Mr. 

 Edward Holden, my generous Friend and Benefactor du- 

 ring the twelveTears Irefided at Algiers. lam indehted 

 like wife to fever al Gentlemen of the French Nation, for 

 many In/lances of their Civility and Politenefs ', particular- 

 ly to the Merchants fettled at JaiFah and Ramah ; to Mr, 

 Salve, Agent to the African Company at Bona; and to 

 Mr. Fort the Governour of La Calle. 



In the Inland Towns and ViUages o/ Barbary, there 

 is, for the moil• Part, a Houfe fet apart for the Recep- 

 tion of Strangers , with a proper Officer ( the Maharak, 

 I think they call him) to attend it. HerePerfons are lodged 

 and entertained , for one Night , in the heft Manner the 

 Place will afford, at the Expence of the Community. 



Except at thefe and the Places ahove-mentioned, I met 

 with no Khan η s ' or Houfes of Entertainment through- 

 out the whole Courfe of my Travels. Tofurnifh our f elves 

 with Tents, would have heen hoth cumherfome and ex pen five ; 

 hefides the Sufpicion it might have raifed in the Arabs, that 

 we were Perfons of Rank and Fortune, and confequently too 

 rich and tempting a Booty to he fuffered to efcape. Ihe 

 unfortunate Gentlemen, who were concerned, not many Tears 



I Vid. Pref. Not. p. iv. 



