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THE PREFACE. 



of Turkilh Soldiers, 'with the Mofolem or General at the 

 Head of them, were not able, or durft 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 us well armed : though 

 we were fometimes 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 J/^ariance. Thefe, and fuch 

 like (o^'^^) Harammeej*, as the Free-boot ers are ufually 

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

 by Wild Arabs; not with /landing 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, /tripping, and murthering, not Strangers only, butalfo 

 one another. 



However, to prevent as much as poffible the falling into 

 their Hands, the great eft Safety for a Traveller, at allTimes, 

 is to be difgu'ifed in the Habit of the Country, or dreffed like 

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

 inquifitive ; fuf peeling all Strangers to be Spies, andfent 

 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 Chrifliians. 



The Horfes and Camels of thefe Countries keep generally 

 one conHant Tace ; 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, conftitute one 

 Degree of a great Circle. The Space we travelled was 

 firft of aU computed by Hours, and then reduced into Miles, 

 Every Evening therefore , as foon as we arrived at our 

 Conhack, {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 



Allow- 



