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kill the Baiha in his Bed. The firft made a fnifc to flip into the Eitchin, and in 
the Night-time carried all away, not leaving fo much as a Skillet ; the fécond 
thronging in among thofe, whooneday entred into the place where theBaOia 
was Sealing, got pretty near to him, and the Bafha having fealed fomething, 
and offering the Seal to fome body to hold, this Knave ftrecched out his hand, 
and having received it, fhortly after difappeared : The third went fo far that 
he Aid into the Baflia's Appartment, and entring into his Chamber in the 
Night-time, came to his Beds- fide, where having drawn his Cangiar, his hand 
was up to have itabbed him, when a iittle Boy, who was in the Bed, and faw 
the glittering light of the Cangiar, cried out fo loud, that the Bafha ftarting 
up, avoided the blow: Immediately Servants came in, and feized the Villain, 
who was next day Empaled for it. 
C H A P.' XXXIil. 
Of Suez and the Red-Sea. 
BEing come back to Snez.^ we went and thanked the Bey for his kindnefs, 
and feeing there v;as no Caravan ready to fet'out, we had time enough to 
confider Swez,, and the Red- Sea: This Sea.which many think is fo called becaufe 
its Water is Red, others more rationally becaufe the Sand of it is Red, is no 
Redder than any other Sea, neither in its Water nor Sand ; only I obferved 
as I went to Mount Sn^ai, fome Mountains all over Red upon the fides of it, 
but Î believe, the reafon why it is called Red, is That the Tranflators of the 
Greek into Latin, having in the Greek found the Erythrean Sea, have taken 
that word in Greek for Red, not confidering that it is the Name of an ancient 
King called Erythra -, who hath given his Name to that Sea which Name Erythm. 
reaches a good way beyond the Gulf of Arabia^ comprehending all the Sea 
that is betwixt the Eaftern Coaft of Afnc.^ and the Indies. See Arrfkri's Na- 
vigation of the Erythrean Sea. This Sea in the holy Scripture is called Tara 
Soufy that is to fay, the Sea of Rufhes, becaufe the Banks of it are full of 
Rufhes. And the Arabs it Biér el Calz.ef?7^ as if one fhould fay the Sea ofBuhreJCaU 
Clyfrna, becaufe of. the Town named Clyfma, which was heretofore built at 
the moft Northern point of that Sea, which is a Gulf of the Ocean, growing 
harrowerand narrower the more Northward it runs-, and during thefpaceof 
five days that I kept along the Coaft: of it in going to Mount Sinai, I could not 
obferve it to be any where abov£ eight or nine Miles over. This Sea ebbs and 
flows like the Ocean. Two Galleys that belong to Haly Bey, Trade on it, and 
many Ships alfo, which for the moft part belong to Beys of ^gyp^ but every 
Year fome of them are loft ; becaufe being narrow and full of Rocks, the Ships 
want Sea-room. It was a Sea of great Trade, before the difcovery of the 
way to the Eaft-hdics by th'e Cape oï Good Hope^ by which the Portuguefe, 
Englifh, Dutch, and others, fail now to the I^idtes, and bring us the Drugs, 
Spices, Pretious Stones, Pearls, and many other Commodities, which for the 
moft part came formerly only by Aleppo, or by the Red-Sea, and were unload- 
ed at the Port of Cojpr, from whence they were carried to the Town of Ghana, Cop. 
lying upon the Nile, and from thence conveyed down the River toGaire, and chMn. 
fo to Alexa^/dna. Str^.bo ùbi^çrvcd this way and paflage, Vv^hen he writes that 
Coptos, a Town of the Thebais (the Ruines whereof are Itill to be feen betwixt ^"/""^ where 
Coffir and Ghana) was -a place of Traffick common to the Arabs s^ndi Indians S^^^^^^^- 
There are very good Oyfters taken in this Sea, as fmall as thofe of EnaUnd, 
and many other good Shell-fifh, befides feveral extraordinary Fifh, and among 
others that which they caW the Se a- man, ( mentioned before ) and thg Gha^rin, ch'^^riua fifb. 
which is a Fifh (haped like a Sea-dog, and about feven or eight Foot long, at 
leaft that which was fent n]e from Gaire is fo. Upon the fide, and at the 
begin- 
