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Travels into the Levant. Part I. 
hundred weight ) about thirty good leagues a day. The Dromedaries have 
two bunches of flefh on their back, fliaped naturally like a Saddle, are lefs, 
fmaller and lighter than the Camels, and are only for carrying of men ; they 
have a good fofc trott, and will travel with eafe forty Leagues a day ; all 
that one has to do, is to fit them well, and indeed, there are fome that 
tye themfelves to them, for fear of fallings in all things elfe they are like 
Camels, they have Ears and a Ihort Tail like them, a cloven foot, and as foft; 
as a Spunge, the neck long, and hair |ull like a Camels, both kneel when 
they are loaded and unloaded, and then rife as they are bid ^ their Food 
is the fame, and both endure third well, continuing upon occafion five days 
without drinking however the Camels can abftain longer than the Drome- 
daries. 
Bat to return to our Journey, we parted from our firft: Stage Saturday 
the twenty fixth of Jamtary about five a Clock in the morning, and during 
all this Journey, it was very cold in the mornings, until the fun was up. 
Ain el Meufe, Shortly after we found feveral waters, which they call Jim el Moufe, that 
is to fa"^, the Wells of Mofes ^ there we filled our Borrachios, as we did 
where ever we found frefii water. About half an hour after ten, we relied, 
and having baited, we went forwards about eleven, and travelled till 
fix a Clock at night, having the Red-Sea always on our right hand, about 
half a league wide of us. We travelled at fuch a rate, that it would have 
been all a good Foot man could do to have kept up with us. 
Sunday January the twenty feventh, we fet out~ about five a clock in the 
morning, and had not advanced above five hundred paces, when paffing by 
An Aub who the fide of a Bufti, we heard a Voice that called to us, and being come to the 
who had not place we found a poor languifhing Arab-, who told us that he had not eaten 
dayTtime. ^ a bit for five days j we gave him fome Viduals and Drink with a provi- 
fion of Bread for two days more, and fo went on our way. We were not 
Meeting with afraid of the Arabs, (whom we met on the way) for when we found any, 
Defalt ^^^^ civilly fainted us, and departed after we had given them fome Bread 
' and Tpbacco, which they very courteoufly defired of us, for they durft not do 
us any hurt,feeing us guarded by two Scheiks^ who told them that they had an- 
fwered for us: when we relted in any place to feed, fome of them came often, 
who having falutedus, fell a eating with our Arabs^ and when none came, 
one of our Arabs cried out (as loud as poffibly he could) That if a-ny bedy 
had a mind to eat they mi^ht fafely come^ and made this proclamation on all 
fides, fo that fuch as heard the invitation, failed nof to come with their 
half-pikes, and laying down their Arms, fell a feeding together on the Ma- 
froiica, (of which I (hall fpeak hereafter : ) but there was no necelfity of mak- 
ing proclamation at night, for fo foon as they faw the fire we made, they 
came immediately to fee what it meant. After we had given that poor 
famifhed Arab fome Vidluals, and travelled on in very good way, about ten 
a clock in the morning we entred among the Hills on very ftony ground. 
Antelopes, a ' lofeing fight of the Sea •• on thefe Hills we faw a great many Antelopes, and 
Beaft betwixt nothing elfe, though there be abundance of wild Bealls in thefe Defarts ; as 
a Goat and a Woolves, Bears, wild Boars, Foxes,'Hares, Chacalesand Eltridgesj thefe are 
^^^^'i all very common there, and all know that the Chacales are engendred of a 
sMkes. -Dog- Wolf, and Bitch -Fox, or of a Dog- Fox and Bitch- Wolf. As for the 
Eftridges they alfo live only in the Defarts, where fome of them are of a pro- 
digious bignefs. Every one knows how Eftridges are ftiaped, which have a 
neck, head and bunch on the Back like Camels, with which they agree in 
PeveCoufcb '^^ny things, fo that the Turks call them Deve Coufch, that is to fay, Bird- 
' Camels ; they go in the Fields always in an even number ,as twojand two or four 
and four. They always beget a Male and a Female, and run fwifter than a 
Horfe,.bnt tire likwife fooner ; and while they run, they throw with their 
feet the ftones that they find, with fo much force againft thofe that purfue 
them, that if they hit aman, they would do him a great deal of hurt. I 
faw one once give a great Dog fuch a blow with his foot, as left him fprawling 
with his four legs up in the Air. When they would catch Eftridges, an 
HowEj^na^a ^^.^^ purfues them on Horfe-back, atfirft gently, and they run away in the 
arc taken, ç^^^ manner, but ftill tiring a little. After two or three hours time, he 
rides 
