ii T H E P R E F A C E. 



fuch material Circumjiances and Occurrences , as might have 

 made up the Diary-Fart of His Travels, 



The Reader therefore is to he informed, that in the feve- 

 ral maritime Towns of Barbary and the Levant^ where 

 the Britifh Factories are eftablijhed, I was entertained 

 with extraordinary Marks of Generofity and Friend/hip ; 

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

 alfo, their J^nii^aries and Servants. ^^S^y hefl Acknow- 

 ledgments therefore are due, upon this y^c county to the worthy 

 Gentlemen, Mr. ConfulC^rcw and his Brother, at Tripoly 

 in Syria ; to the late Meffieurs Thomas Ufgate and 

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

 Mr. Conful MoQX^ andhis Deputy Mr. Damarel ^/Kairo 

 ^;/J Alexandria; to^JMeJfieursJ_jZV^VQi[iCQ ^w^Hudfon, 

 the Britiili and Dutch Confuls, at Tvinis ; and to Mr. 

 Edward Holden, my generous Friend and Benefactor du- 

 ring the twelveTears Irefided at Algiers. lam indehted 

 likewife to fever al Gentlemen of the French Nation, for 

 many Inftances of their Civility and Politenefs ; particular" 

 Jy to the Merchants fettled at JafFah and Ramah ; to Mr, 

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

 Mr Fort the Governour oj La Calle. 



In the Inland Towns and T^illages <?/ Barbary, there 

 is, for the moH Fart, a Houfe fet apart for the Recep- 

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

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

 and entertained, for one Night , in the hefl Manner th^ 

 Tlace will afford, at the Expence of the Community. 



Except at thefe and the R laces ahove-mentioned, I met 

 with no Khanns ' or Houfes of Entertainment through- 

 out the whole Courfe of my Travels. Tofurni/h ourf elves 

 with Tents, would have heen hoth cumherfome andexpen/ive ; 

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

 we were Rerfons of Rank and Fortune, and confequently too 

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

 unfortunate Gentlemen, who were concerned, not many Tears 



I Vid. Pref. Not. p. iv. 



ago, 



