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Travels into thehEYAN t. 
Part I. 
Scheicen , 
Hani. 
fay, was inhabited by Job and his Family, but half of it is not Cultivated. 
The day following you Lodge at Schekon Han^ that is to fay, the Hun Schackj, 
it is a very old Han^ having on the Gate a Marble- Stone, lix fpans long, and 
four fpans broad, upon which are engraven fix lines in Arabick Characters, and 
on the two fides there are alfo two round ftones of Marble, upon each where- 
of there is a Chalice with its Paten, very well Engraven. From Schekon Hani 
you go to Marra \ of which I have fpoken in the preceeding Chapter. Next 
day you go to Han Serakih. Upon the Road you fee fome ruinous Villages, 
whereof that which is mofl: entire, is called Has Merey, built in form of a 
Caflle, having four Towers in the four Corners, three fquare, and one round j 
this Han is four Hours going from Marra., and about twenty paces fhort of it 
on the left hand, you fee five great Sepulchres, in one whereof a Bafiia is In- 
terred, having his Turban cut in Marble, at one end of his Tomb. In an old 
Building fifteen paces diftant from the Gate of that Han Serakib^ there is a 
Well alraoft fquare, which is two and forty Fathom deep before you come at 
the Water, as well as that of Marra j about fourfcore paces from thence, 
there is a pitiful Village little Inhabited, though there be good Land about 
it. From Han Serakib, you have a days Journey to Han Touman : Upon the 
Road to the left hand, you fee a pretty handfome Town, called Sermm, anà 
three or four ruinous Villages, having been forfaken becaufe of the Robberies of 
the Arabs. About forty Years fince, Han Touman was rebuilt by a Baftia of 
Alefpo^caWedHifouf Bajha^yçho put into it an Â£a with fifty Soldiers,and ten little 
Culverines, to keep it againft the Arabs^ who formerly committed frequent 
Robberies thereabouts. The River of Jtleppo, called Singa, runs hard by it, 
and turns two Mills not far from thence. From Han Tonman^ you go to Aleppo^ 
in three or four Hours time. 
Hm Toumm. 
Semin, 
Stnga. 
CHAP. LXII. 
Our fitting out from Acre to Damiette^ and our 
meeting with Italian ^Corfairs. 
From Acre 
to Dmmte. 
Satihi{uer. 
WE ftaid at Jcre four days, expefting a paffage for Damiette^ but at 
length, finding two Sanbiqners of Cyprtts-, which werë both bound for 
Dakkttcy we refolved to go along with them ^ and having fent for the Keys of 
that Sanbiquer that was a Greek, Monfum de Bncard the Conful, took the 
pains to make a Bargain for us,' and recommended us to him. Sanbiquers are 
Veifels made like Galliotts, but longer; the Stern and Stem of them, are made 
much alike, only in the Poop, there is abroad Room under Deck; there are 
feveral Banks for Rowers, according to the length of the Sanbiquer^ and each 
Oar is managed by two Men. Ours had twelve Oars on each fide ; but befides, 
it had a great Maft with a very large Sail \ fo that being light Loaded,no Galley 
could be too hard for one of them, if their Oars v;ere long enough, but they 
have them very ftiort. The Wind offering fair for us, we took our Provifions 
and went onhozxà ovx Sanbiqner ^ Sunday the nineteenth of May^ about three 
a Clock in the Afternoon, the other Sanbiqaer being in company with us. We 
were much afraid of Corfairs ftill, and efpecially of him who had taken us be- 
fore ; not only becaufe his Men had faid, That if they had killed us, they would 
not have been obliged to make Reftitution of any thing, but alfo leaft they . 
might have accufed us of being the caufe that the Turks had come out againll 
them, and fo ufed us the worfe for that. However we met with nothing confi- 
derable till next day, being Monday the twentieth of May, that about Sun- 
fetting we paffed by a Tower, about twelve Miles from Jaffa ; when we were 
come near to that Tower, they fired fome great and Small-fliot at us, which 
much 
