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cv trc^reUioff till three a clock' in the morning of Friday the fifteenth of 
SJ^Vv when werefted^ we parted again an noon, and travelling till three 
7'after vTe refted-^ then we fct forwards again at feven a clock at 
^- h and kept travelling till next day Saturday the fixteenth of February, 
fhit about eight a Clock we arrived at C^^r.. 
This Caravan from Caire to Suez., and from Suez, to Catre, travels com- 
^^nW verv faft, becaufe it cannot fpend much time by the way, for other- 
wH-e thev would fall Ihort of provifions, having none but what they carry 
■1 /i-.?m both for Men and Camels, and therefore they never ftay above 
T o or three days at 5..^,^nd if they Hayed longer, they would ^tarve 
; w Town where there is nothing but what is brought in from the Countrey 
! r when the Galleys or fome Ships arrive i and indeed, thefe Camel 
rî Vprs are always fo weary and fpent, that they can hardly ftir, they have 
t f much as time to fleep, and now and then they run before the Caravan 
onS tumbling down iiPon the ground, fall prefently a fleep, taking there 
ninrt nap till the Caravan be palt, when fome take care to awaken them. 
In this lourney from Sftez. to Caire, for a days time and more we had fo 
V. Wind that we were forced to turn our backs to it, to take a little A dangAous 
hrL1i and fo foon as we opened our mouths, they were fall of Sand ; our hot wind. 
wTrer was fo cxtr€amly heated with it, that it feemed to be jufl taken 
nff- of the Fire : and many poor People of the Caravan, came and begged 
r^f ,K a CUD of water fgr Gods fake; for our parts we could not drink it, 
it was fo hot. The Camels were fo infefled with this Wind, that they 
could not fo much as feed ; but it lafted not above fix hours in its force -, 
and if it had continued longer, one half of the Caravan would have perilhed. 
It was fuch a kind of wind that the year before fo infefted the Caravan of a great Mor- 
Mfrha that twothoufand men died of it in one night. In this Journey I tality by that 
dîferved that when the feet of the Camels were cut and galled, the Camel Wind, 
drivers took the Bones of dead Camels, (of which all the way from C^^Ve 
fo Suez, is fo full, that following only the trad where thefe Bones ly, one 
Triav so the ftreight way to Suez.) they took thefe Bones (I fay) and with 
the nfarrow they fonnd in them anointed the fore place of the Camel Such 
a^wonld travel to Mount Sinai, ought to make provifion at Catre of all 
that thev may ftand in need of, and not truO; to Suez, or Tor, for a Camel 
II carrv all I'm fure for- want of that counfel, we fuffered much, and 
^hen we came back to C aire, v^eve ^W troubled with a Rheum that fell down 
Tmon our Lungs like to have choaked us, by reafon of the cold icey waters 
that we were forced to drink upon that Mountain ; nay our Moor Servant 
hadalmoftloft his Life by it. 
CHAP. XXXV. 
The Journey from Caire to Gaza,- 
Eing recovered from my Journey to Mount Sinai, I relolved to travel prom Cwe to 
I B to Jerufalem, and feeing that which moft recommends thefe places Guia. 
toxxs is the Birth, Life and Death of our Lord Jefus Chrift, I flayed till 
Lent' that I might be there at the time when the Church celebrates the 
memory of his dolorous Paffion. Tljere is a Caravan that yearly in Lent 
goes from Caire to Jerufalem; and with the Mafter of the prefent years 
Caravan, (who was a Chriftian of the Countrey) I made a bargain for eighteen . ' 
Tiaftres each Coune, and all C4aires payed to Jerufalem. Thefe Counes C&mes. 
are Hampier^ like Cradles carried upon Camels Backs one on each fide, but 
they have a back, head and fides, like the great Chairs that fick people fit in. 
Aman rides in each of thefe Counes, and over them they lay a covering, 
A a which 
B 
