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I afkcd our Rais where his fair wind was which lie promi- 

 sed to bring ? He laid, his wife had quarrelled with him all 

 night, and would not give him time to pray; and therefore, 

 fays he with a very droll face, you fhall fee me do all that 

 a Saint can do for you on this occafion. I afked him what 

 that was ? He made another droll face, "Why, it is to draw 

 " the boat by the rope till the wind turns fair." I commend- 

 ed very much this wife alternative, and immediately the 

 veiled began to move, but very flowly, the wind being ftill 

 unfavourable. 



On looking into Mr Nordcn's voyage, I was ftruck at firft 

 fight with this paragraph* : "We faw this day abundance of 

 " camels, but they did not come near enough for us to fhoot 

 " them." — I thought with myfelf, to Jhoot camels in Egypt 

 would be very little better than to Jhoot men, and that it was 

 very lucky for him the camels did not come near, if that 

 was the only thing that prevented him. Upon looking at 

 the note, I fee it is a fmall miftake of the tranflator +, who 

 fays, " that in the original it is Chameaux d'eau, water- 

 " came/s;bm whether they are a particular fpecies of camels, 

 * or a different kind of animal, he does not know. 



But 



* Norden's Travels, vol. ii. p. 17. 



fl cannot here omit to reftify another fmall miftake of the tranflator, which involves- 

 him in a difference with this Author which he did not mean. — 



Mr Norden, in the French, fays, that the mafter of his veflel being much frightened, 

 " avoit perdu la tramontane •" the true meaning of which is, That he had Toft his judgment, 

 not loll the north wind, as it is tranilated, which is really nonfenfe. 



Month's Travel, vol. ii. r>. re. 



