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from him, but I believe they would be hard 

 put to't to prove their Pedigree. 



As fbon as we alighted, we were attended 

 by the Officers of the Emir^ and conducted to 

 a very noble Tent built after the Turkijh 

 Mode^ and pitch'd next to his own. Hither 

 he fent to bid us welcome, and to enquire 

 how we had pafl: in our Voyage ^ and pre* 

 fently after we had a Repaft of feveral Difhes 

 of Meat fet before us, to ftay our Appe- 

 tites till a more plentiful Supper could be 

 got ready. But before Supper the King 

 himfelf made us a Vifit in Perfon, bidding just 

 Welcome to Fay^ and asking what we had 

 fcen in our Travels that pleas'd us ? how we 

 liked Tadmor ? and whether we had found a 

 Treafure there ? For this Notion fticks in 

 the Heads of thefe People, That the Franks 

 go to fee old Ruins, only becaufe they there 

 meet with Infcriptions which dired them to 

 ibme hid Treafures. And therefore it's no 

 unufal thing with them, when they find a 

 Stone with an Infcription on one fide,to turn 

 that down to the Ground, that it might not 

 . be feen or read of any. But we affiir'd him 

 we went with no fuch Expeftations, but on- 

 ly out of a defire to fee the Place : Neither 

 had wp brought any thing away with us, but 

 a piece of Porphyry Stone, which, upon his 

 Requeft, we fhew'd him. We let him fee 

 too, a kind of rude Draught which we had 

 taken of the Place ; which he feemed to like. 

 Hemade hB Vifit the fhorter, that he might 

 not incommode us after our Journey ^ but de- 

 fir'd us we would live after our own Pleafure 

 and to oiir Satisfadion, and command freely 



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