Of the TVejiern V r ovine e. 3 yy 



difplayed in Their Marches and Engagements. They pay no 

 Taxes, and, being of that Rank o^yirahs which they call [ ^W^ ] 

 Jo^t/aide, ferve the Al^ermes only as Volunteers. Above the 

 Sweede^'i'cmn Tagadempt to the Sehheineyime, are the Encamp- 

 ments of the Welled Booker ; behind which are thofe oHhtlVe lie dZf^""^ ^''''' 

 Hdleefy a Tribe that tills no Ground, and being only intent upon I^^J""' ^'^^' 

 the breedins; of Cattle.keeps for the moft Part within the Sahara. '^''^ suaejfors 



r ■ \^ • 71 • • oj The Ma- 



Some of the antient Mazices and Banturari misht have had V*^^^ ■^'^'^ 

 Their Dwellings, thus far to the Weft ward. ri- -e^^- 



Two Miles to the Eaft ward of the Arhew, is the Tomb of scedy Awd. 

 Seedy yih'id, built upon the Southern Banks of the Shelliff. Five 

 Miles farther, are the Ruins of Mejtddah, formerly a Roman Mejiddah, 

 Station, feated upon a riling Ground, with the Shelliff helow 

 It. Four Miles from Mejiddah, in the like Situation, but at a 

 Leagues Diftance from the River, \sMemoun-turroy, (as TheyMemoun- 

 call) an old fquare Tower, formerly a fepulchral Monument of 

 the Romans. This, like many more antient Edifices, is fup- 

 pofed by the Arabs, to have been built over a Treafure. A- 

 greably to which Account, They tell us, thefe myftical Lines 

 were infcribed* upon It. 



** My Treafure is in my Shade, 

 udnd my Shade is in my Treafure, 

 Search for It\ defpair not: 

 Nay dejpair\ do not fearch. 



The MoouJ}} Secretary who gave me thcfe Lines, added, ".ic i .^ 



Hakeda keel j w' allah aim. As] 5,D|. J>a» (tit* 

 'So it is [aid ; but God befi knows how it is, 



hut whether thefe Words belonged originally to them, or are hir own Comment, I cannot 



determine, .^^ii^. 



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