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none, becaufe the £'9'^ Gentleman of the Horfe, promifed us theufe of his to 
Suez.. 
Having made ready our Provifions, we loaded them on a Camel, and then Ï 
parted from Caire on Thnrfday., the feventeenth oi January^ in the Year 1558. 
with a Cafucine^ and a French man of Yrovence., who under flood ^^vîi^/r/^ ver y 
well ; and a Moor Servant who ufed to ferve the French, and could fpeak a little 
Lingua Franca^ having left my own Man, who was indifpofed, at C^^re. We 
v;ent from Caire tothe JSi?-^«e, which is but four leagues diftant, and encamced 
there, waiting for the reft of the Caravan, that confifted of two thoufand 
Camels loaded with Tim.ber, for building a Ship for the G'?-W5(^»/or ; Novali 
Bey had orders to get her built, and was gone a little before. The Bey of Suez. 
went along with this Caravan in a Litter carried by two Camels ^ he made the 
Journey, becaufe one of his Galleys w^as arrived ^ and that was the caufe alfo 
of the Capucins going, that he might Confefs the Slaves on board. This Birc^ue 
is fpacious, and has always water in it ; there are fome who pay fo much a 
year to the Grand Signivr^ for liberty to catch Wild-duck and Fifh in it. Friday 
all day long the reft of the Caravan was a coming, and Saturday Morning a Man 
cried aloud, that all Ihould make ready to depart at Noon \ for it is the cuftom'e 
in Caravans that are any thing big, to give notice of parting fome hours before j 
ATempeft in but towards Noon there fell fo great a Tempeft, (for in Sandy Defarts there 
tlieDefart. are Tempefts, afwel as at Sea) that we could not fet out that day. It New fo 
furioufly, that 1 thought all the Tents would have been carried away by the 
Wind, which drove before it fuch clouds of Sand, that we were almoft buried 
under it ^ for feeing no body could ftay abroad, without having mouth and 
eyes immediately filled with Sand, we lay under the Tent, where the Wind 
drove in the Sand above a foot <îf ep round about us : We had two Pafties not as 
yet opened, and they were wrapt up in napkins at the bottom of a Maund, well 
covered with a napkin fewed over it. When the Storm was over, which lafted 
not above three or four hours, we opened our Pafties, but found them fo full 
of fand, that no body could eat of them (fo fubtile and penetrating the fand is) 
fo that we were forced to throw them away j and thefe are the occalicns, when 
one finds the advantage of a good Tent. 
Next day, the twentieth of January^ we parted at eleven a clock in the 
Morning, and at three in the Afternoon refted, that we might drink Coffee ; 
then half an hour after, the Timbrels founding, we marched on till one a clock 
• The march next morning; for in the Caravans there is commonly a Man mounted on a 
of the Cara- Camel, who now and then beats two Timbrels or Kettle- drums that are on each 
vans. fide of the Camel before him; the Cafes of thefe Timbrels are of brafs, and 
they ferve not only to chear up the Camels ( who delight much in fuch a noife^ 
and in finging j but alfo to give warning to thofe that ftay behind. 
Monday zîitxïioow we parted, and having refted a little about five a clock, 
half anhpur, we fet forward again, and marched on tillfcur of the clock in 
Tuefday morning, travelling always a good league an hour : About half an 
hours march beyond the place where we had refted, we faw a very handforae 
Turkifh Sepulchre, where the Kiaya of a Caravan lies buried, who coming 
from Suez.^ was fet upon by m^ny yirabs: The Kiaya having for a long time 
fought with the Arabs in defence of the Caravan, as his office obliged him, ( for 
the Kiaya of the Caravan is the Lieutenant of the Governour of Suez,, and is 
obliged to guard all the Caravan? that come or go from Caire to Suez, ) this 
Kiaya (I fay ) after a long fight, received a thruft with a Pike in the Belly, of 
which he prefently died, and was interred in the fame place. Since that. time, 
the Veflels on the Red-Sea pay five thoufand Piaftres at Suez, to maintain an 
hundred Soldiers, whereof fifty are to abide in a Caftle near to Suez, to guard 
the Countrey ^ and the other fifty with the Kiaya, wait upon the Caravans. 
An hours journey beyond that Sepulchre, we found a great long Ciftern, built 
of fair Free-ftone, which is filled by Rain-water. A little farther, and a good 
hour before one arrives at Suez., there is a fair Well, but the water of it is not 
Arrival at sood. Tuefday the two and twentieth of January^ we arrived at Sae;^, in the 
suei. Night-time. 
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