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MR- LED YARD'S 
boats are feen onions, water-melons, dates, fometimes a horfe, 
a camel, (which lies down in the boat) and flieep and goats, 
dogs, men and women. — Towards evening and morning they 
have mufic» 
" Whenever we flopped at a village, I ufed to walk into it 
with my Conduftor, who, being a Muffelman, and a defcen- 
dant from Mahommed, wore a green turban, and was therefore 
refpe£ted, and I was fare of fafety : — but in truth, drefled as I 
was in a common Turkifli habit, I believe I lliould have walked 
as fafely without him. I faw no propenfity among the inhabi- 
tants to incivility. The villages are moft miferable alTemblages 
of poor little mud huts, flung very clofe together without any 
kind of order, full of duft^ hce, fleas, bed-bugs, flies, and all the 
curfes of Mofes : people poorly clad, the youths naked ; in fuch 
refpefls, they rank infinitely below any Savages I ever faw. 
The common people wear nothing but a fliirt and draw- 
ers, and they are always blue. Green is the royal or holy co- 
lour ; none but the defcendants of Mahommed, if I am rightly 
informed, being permitted to wear it. 
Auguil 19th. From the little town where we landed, the 
diftance 
