Travels info the Levant. Part 
■^"'î. beginning of this Sea (famous for the paflage of the Ifraelites) Hands S^.ez., 
Mince. vvhich fome will have to be the Ancient Arfnoe^ fo called from Jr(h!oe the Sifter 
hdJZs oïPtolomy ThiUddfhHs^ who built that Town, and called ir by the name of his 
' Sifler ^ it is a little Town, containing .about Two hundred Houfes. It hath 
a pretty Harbour, but fo (hallow Water, that Ships cannot put into' it, and 
the Galleys themfelves muft be half unlosded before they enter into it ; never- 
^ • thelefs, Ships and all ride fafe enough in the Road. Thefe Galleys are.very 
little, they carry no great Guns, but only zPetrcra to falute the Ports where 
they arrive. Clofe by the Harbour there is a Baraque^ railed in with great 
wooden Palifladoes, where are nine Cdverines-, every one longer than another, 
of which the biggeft is of a prodigious length, and I take it to be much longer, 
and of a far wider bore, than the two which are at Malta upon the Baraque, 
and in the Caftle St. Erme j they are of the Turkifli make, and nothing of 
Workmanfliip about then). There are alfo thirteen pieces of very great Gan- 
non there, and upon one of them a FIower-de-Luce ; however it is ealily dis- 
cernable, that it hath been made inTurkie, perhaps by fome Renegade French 
man, for it is altogether Turkifh, without any Workmanfliip, as all the reft 
are, Thefe Guns are not mounted, and were fent thither from Ccnfiammofle 
by Sultan Ammat, on a delïgn he had of attempting an Expedition into the 
Indies, with a Fleet fitted out on that Sea. Clofe by the Gate of Suez^ there 
is an Eminence, where heretofore flood a Caftle built by the Franks, and upon 
the fame Eminence there is Hill a great Gun. The Slaves told us, that the 
People of the Country believe, there is fome Treafure near that place guarded 
by Hobgoblins; for my part, that Night we arrived from Mount 5/?2^?, I lay 
at the foot of that Eminence, and the Sprights did not at all difturb my reft. 
There is in this Town ftiil a Greek Church, but in bad order. There are 
fome pretty well built Houfes in Shez.^ and an indifferent good Market-place^ 
To conclude, this Town is very Populous, when.any Ship arrives, or when 
the Galleys are in the Harbour, but at other times it is very Defolate; and 
indeed, there is not fo much as any good Frefii Water within two Leagues 
round it. 
CHAP. XXXÎV. 
My BMurn from Suez to Caire. ^ ^ 
Return from >* pj-g^ i fgen Saez. at leifure enough, I prepared to be gone with a Ca- 
i^ueito Caire. ravan of Two hundred Camels, which the Emir-Jdj^ehcià provided to 
carry from Suez, to Caire, the Coffee that was brought in the Galleys, and 
twelve Ships which were in the Road ; there was in all Thirty thoufand Load, 
each Load weighing three or four hundred weight, and every Camel carried 
two of thefe Loads. I hired a Camel for my felf,- there being no "Mules to be 
- got, and we parted from Suez., Thurfday the fourteenth of February, abouC 
eight a Clock in the Morning ; the Caravan was attended by a guard of 
Arabs from fundry places. We left feveral thoufands of Camels in Suez., and 
met abroad feveral great Troops belonging to Arabs and others, who 'came 
to let their Camels for Tranfporting of the Coffee. I foon found the diffe- 
rence betwixt the Camels of the Arabs, and thofe of the Town, for being 
accuftomed to Ride upon the Camels of the Aral's, I could not make ufe of 
this which I had hired to carry me to Caire, one half days Journey ; fo that' 
I hired a little Afs from a man of the Caravan, and rode upon it to Caire. 
The truth is, the Camels of the Arabs go a great deal more eafily than the 
others do. At Noon wepaft by a Caftle called Adgeroud, which we faw not 
as we carfte, becaufe we paft it in the Night-time, only three perfons live 
there who drink Salt-water. Werefted at Two a Clock, and put on again at 
Six, 
