Part I. Travels info the L e v a n t. ,i 
the feverith of April, waiting, for the Jc-ivs^ who had itopp'd to celebrate 
their Sabbath at Canniones. 
On Monday morning when we thought of parting, the lafha put a flop to ic, 
who having had intelligence that the malter of the Caravan carried money 
for fomç Jews in Jerufilem^ (who were his Debtors j would needs pay 
himfelf with it. 
The matter being taken up, we parted from Caza Tncfd.iy the ninth of 
Jpril, at fix a Clock in the Morning, with fome Turks for a Convoy ; about 
nine a Clock we paffed over a very high and broad Bridge, but of one fingle 
Arch, which has at the higher end a Sibil joining toit, and another a little 
beyond it ; about half an hour after ten we found another Sibil, and aboun 
eleven, two high-ways, of which leaving to the left hand the one that at a 
hundred paces diltance palTes through a Village called Megdel, we took the 
right hand way, at the entry into which wcfouad a Sibil,and at noon another, 
befides theL, there are a great many Birques upon the Road. At three a 
Cîock in the Afternoon v/e arrived at Hhunfedond, travelling all the way nh.mfdoui, 
from Gaz^a thither in a lovely plain full of Corn, Trees and Flowers, which 
yielded a rare good fmell. This Plain is all embroadered with Tulips and ^. P'ain of 
Eraonies, when the feafon is, but then it was paft ; andthefe Flowers would 2"'''" 
be reckoned beautiful m France, ///?.z«/^^/oW is a pitiful Village, where there 
is a Han for Caravans, built of fmall Free-ftone, and the doors faced with 
Iron, but we went not into it, becaufe we would makje no ftay, defigning to 
make up our Mondays journey which we loft at Gaz.a, and therefore we 
encamped upon a little height about two hundred paces beyond the Village, 
from whence we parted the fame day, Tnefday the ninth of Aprils at nine 
a dock, at night, and at one a clock in the morning paffed a Village called 
Tcbna, at the end of which we croiTed over a Bridge that is very broad ; 
about half an hour after three we found a lovely large well, and a Sibil 
clofe by it, as a little farther another. 
Wed?iefday^ the tenth of Jpril^ about four of the clock in the morning, we 
arrived at Rama-, called in Arabick RamU ^ we went not into it, becaufe we 
had no mind to lye there, but encamped in a Plain over againfl the Town, and 
then went to the Town to fee the French Merchants that live there. Rami is a 
Town depending on the Balha of Gciz.ci-, and therein is the Houfe of NkomUes^ -p he Houfe of 
where fome French Merchants and their Chaplain live* ' In the fame Houfe, N/Vo/rt^Jtj-. ' 
there is a pretty Church and it is the Houfe where the Franks who are on Pil- 
grimage lodge, when they pafs through Rama : The Door of that Houfe is not 
three foot highj and fo are all the Doors in the Town, to hii^der the Arabs 
from entering intotheir Houfes on Horfe-back. The Church of the Forty 
Martyrs is âlfo in this Town, and hath a ver y high fquare Steeple, which in 
times paft was as high again. Heretofore there was a ftately large Convent 
there, of which the Cloyfter feems ftill to be very entire, by what we could 
obferve in paîTing by the Gate, for we were told that Chriftians were not per- 
mitted to enter it. There is another Church there aifo, dedicated to the 
Honour of St. George. 
We parted from Ram.t on Thiirfday^ the eleventh of Aprils at fix of the clock 
in the morning, and a little after came to a ftony way, which grew worfe 
and worfe all along till we came to our Lodging. About nine of the clock, we 
faw to the right hanc^ the Village of the Good Thief, called in Arabick Beth- BakUh], 
lakij 7 after that we paid the Cajfalre, and took a Guard as far a Jenifalem ; 
before we came to that Village, we found two Ways, of which that which is the 
good Wa.y is on the right hand, and paffes through the Village ; and the other 
is on the left hand, which we took, to avoid a Caffaire, but it led us among 
Hills in very bad Way , and at length we encamped amidft the Mountains 
about half an hour after two in the afternoon, in a place clofe by a ruinous 
old Building, v;hich heretofore was a Convent" of Francifcan Friers ; there 
are ftill fome Arches ftanding, and many others under ground, wherein at 
prefent the Arabs put their Cows. Near to it, there is a Spring of very good 
Water ilFuing cut of a Rock , which perhaps was formerly enclofed within 
the Convent. 
Friday 
