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mufl fee then the Appartment or Serra^llo of the Bajha, which is very neat, as 
that of the Kiayas is alfo : Both thefe places have a very pleafant Profped, for 
from them one has a full view of C^zVf, Old Caire, Boalac, theDefarts, and all 
places about. The Hall of the great £>/y^;7 is in the Balha's Appartment ; it is 
long, but the feeling a little too low : againft die wall of that Hall, hang ten 
v.'ooden Bucklers, a fingers breadth thick a piece, all joyned together, and, 
pierced through by a javelin about five foot long, with an iron Head about a 
good foot in length \ this Iron piercès through all thefe Bucklers, and reaches 
The ftrength a hands breadth farther. Sultan Amur at (as they fay) threw that Javelin, where- 
of i'zite A- with he [pierced the Bucklers through, and fent them to Caire flicking thereon, 
rmtrat. j.|^gy ^^.g ^ggj^ gj. pr^fg^t^ to fliewhis ftrength to the lAigypttans -, this 
is kept as a Miracle, and covered with a Net. Snltan Amnrat was indeed, 
^ the ftrongell Man of his time, and marks of that are to be feen in feveral 
places. 
In this Appartment of the Bafha, there is a very large court cr place, called 
CaraMeidari^ at the end of which are his Stables, where the Aquedud which 
_ comes near Bodac, and conveyeth'the water of the M/f, difcharges itfelf for 
ly Stle in' "^"^ Horfes. This Caftle might pafs for a great Town, and is the 
cdre. that ever 1 faw, not only for Strength, but alfo for the flately Buildings 
that are in it, the lovely Profpedts, and good Air : In a word, it is a work 
The Caftle of worthy of the ancient Pharaoh''s and Ptobmys who built it, and correfponds very 
' ■ well with the magnificence of the Pyramides. This Caftle looks great alfo on 
! the out-fide, but chiefly on the fide of the four Xjates, which they call Babd 
^ Carafi, and which enter all four into the Romeile : On that fide, the Caftle 
Walls are very high and ftrong, being built upon the Rock, which is two 
mens height above ground. Thefe v/alls are very entire, and look as if they 
were new : Near to that, all along fromthefirft of the four Gates to the laft, 
and not far from the Caftle, there are fair Burying-places. 
The Fountain The Fountain of Lovers is withiii the City ; It is a great oval Bafon,or rather 
of Lovers. Trough, made of one entire piece of black Marble, fix foot long, and about 
three foot high, and all round it there are Figures of Men and Hieroglyphicks 
rarely well cut: The People of the Countrey tell a great many tales of this 
Fountain of Lovers, and fay, that in ancient times Sacrifices were offered at it. 
caJaateJKdh. Not far from thence, there is a great Palace, caWed Calaat el kabh, that is to 
fay, the Caftle of Turpitude, it feems to have been formerly a neat Building, but 
at prefent it falls to decay ; feveral lovely Pillars are to be feen in it. They 
, fay, that Sultan ScHm lodged in that Palace, after that he had made himfelf 
Mafter of Caire -, and many very ancient Fables they tell of it. A few fteps 
Garden of from thence is the Garden of Lovers, whereof the Moors relate the fame thing 
Lovers. i\y^i Diodorus Sicdus reports of Sefoftris, the Second King of ^gypt , who 
sejcpis. having loft his Sight, and been told by the Oracle, that he fliould not reco- 
ver it, if he did not wafli his face with the Urine of a Woman that had never 
known Man, befideher own Husband ; hewafnedwith his Wife's water, thea 
tried feveral others, without recovering his Sight j and at length having 
wallied with the water of a Gardener's Wife, who was Mafter of this Garden, 
his fight came to him again ; whereupon he married that Wgman, and caufed 
ail the reft who had been adulterous, to be burnt. 
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