î o 8 Travels- into the Levant. Part Î. 
he could not psy them fo much Money as he did, if they took from him the 
profit cfthe holy Fire, and therefore they are fufFered to continue the Juggle. 
Nexî; day the one and twentieth of Jpnly being Eafier day, the P.. F. Com-* 
miflary faid high Mafs upon an Altar, purpofeiy ereded before the door of 
the holy Sepulchre, a Father playing upon the Organ, to which the Turks 
were very attentive, buts in the mean time purfumed us with the Srnoak of 
their Tobacco, and one of them fairly lighted his Pipe at one of the Tapers 
upon the Altar,during the time that high Mafs was faying. At this Mafs we ail 
received the Sacrament from the hands of the R. F. Commiflary. That day 
weufed Ornaments given by the King of Spain, which are very rich in Em- 
broadery -, but feeing it is not a compleat Service, they made up what was 
wanting, out of thofe that were given by the King of Fr^we. The R. F. was 
very apprehenfivethat the Greeks might difturb our Service, becaufe they had 
refolved to perform theirs before ours, but all was very well,_and we performed 
our Service firil, though they made as if they would come out of the Quire 
and begin their Proceffion at the fame time we began our Mafs ; however they 
durft not, and perhaps they would have got nothing by it, for we had Jani- 
z.aries that would have hindred them. They flayed then till our Service was 
over, and then began theirs. For our parts fo foon as Mafs was faid, we went 
out of the Church of St. Sepulchre, and dined in the Convent of St. Savmtr, 
where every one of us found two Chaplets and two Crofles, (which" had been 
touched at the Holy places) upon our Plates. The Convent treated both the 
Pilgrims and Monks with thefe. 
C H A P. XLIV. 
Of the f laces that are to be Jeen on the way from 
Jerulalem to Bethlehem. 
^Oriday the twenty fécond of Jpnl, we put it to deliberation, whether 
_ _ we fhould go to EmaHs,(^zs the day feemed to require) but it was not 
thought fit that we ftiould go becaufe it was in our way as we returned back, fo 
that we might not make the journey twice, we went not, for we had no time 
to lofev but after Dinner we fet out from the Convent atone a Clock, to go 
to Bethlehem, and going out by the Gate of Bethlehem, and leaving Mount 
Sion to the left hand, Tof which, and of all that is to be feen there, I fliall fpeak 
The Turpen- hereafter) we went firft to a place where a Turpentine-Tree grew,under which, 
tine-Tree of (as the People of the Countrey fay) the BlefTed Virgin going one day from 
the Virgin, Bethlehe m to Jeruf ale m, refted her felf to avoid the heat of the Sun, and that 
. then the Tree bent downwards to give her the greater fhade. Some years 
fince, it was fet on Fire by the Arab Shepherds, which the Monks hearing of, 
ran thither in all hafte, and took what remained of it, whereof they Hill make 
Chaplets and little Crofles. Leaving that place to the left hand, and keeping 
on our way, wefaw to the right handout of the Road, the Houfe of Righte- 
The houfe of ous 5;>«co«, who made the Hymn Nnnc Dimittis, &c. After that, we found to 
St. Simeon, j-jjg right hand, the Cifl:ern where the three Wife Men found again the Star 
which had appeared to them in the Eafi, and which they had loft as they 
entered into Jerufalem. A little beyond that on the right hand, is the Houle 
The Houfe of of the Prophet Nabhakk,nkj> wherein the Angel took him by the Hair of the 
^mUialhtk^^ Head, and carried him to Babylo??, to give Damel Food, when in that City he 
'* was put into t'he Lyons Den, Dan. 14. To the left hand there is a Greek 
The place Monaflery, dedicated to the honour of the Prophet Elias, who was Born in 
where Elias that place, and before that Monaflery there is a Stone on which the figure of 
was Born. j^jj Body is imprinted, and which (they fay) was his Bed, and a Well called 
Elias Well. A little farther is the place where the Prophet Amos was Born, 
After 
