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and we feut two to meet them ; they gavd 

 the Salam alika^ and ours returned the Alica 

 falam^ and advancing to our Company^ told 

 us the Emir had underftood of our coming, 

 ;and had fent them to acquaint us that he was 

 our Friend, and that all the Country was 

 ours. We fent back with them our Janiz^a^ 

 ry and a Servant to vilit the Prince in his 

 Tents, which were in a Garden. In the 

 mean time we difmounted at a Watering 

 Place amidlt the Ruins, but did not unload 

 till our Janiz^ary and Servant returned with 

 the £;7^/y^ Tefcarr^ afluring us of Friendfliip 

 and Protection, a Writing which the Aravs 

 were never known to violate before. With 

 them came alfo one that belonged to the 

 Sheck, of the Town, for whom we had Let- 

 ters from Vfejfe Aga the Emeen of Aleppo. 

 He defired us for greater Security td 

 pitch our Tents under the Town Walls^ 

 which is in the Ruins of a great Palace, the 

 Wall yet ftanding very high, the Town with-^ 

 in but fmall, and the Houfes excepting two 

 or three no better than Hog-fties. So we 

 pitched in a deep Sandy Ground where we 

 found it exceeding hot. Here we waited 

 till three of the Clock without eating any 

 thing, expecting the Sheck. fhould have pre- 

 fented us according to the ufual Cuftom of 

 the Turks to their Friends, and have giveit 

 fome anfwer to the Letters we brought him^ 

 but on the contrary we found by the gefture 

 6f the People, that we had Reafon to fuA 

 eel them. Hereupon two of our Company 

 elieving that the want of a prefent to the 

 Emir was the caqfe thereof refoivcJ to ad^ 



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