Travels into the YyEv ant. 
Part 1. 
Cdfa Rpjfa- caçne to Cafa Rojfa, which is half way betwixt Rofetto and Media, where we 
Media.' arrived about three hours after day. Media is above half way from Rojfetto 
to Alexandria. 
Having refted there about an hour, wecrofTed over in the Ferry-boat, pay- 
ing a Mddin for our Houfe-room and paflage j and after we had travciled a 
good way, about two a clock in the Afternoon we came to Jlexandria^ 
twelve hours Journey diftant from ReffettOy betwixt which two Towns there 
is no other Inn but Media, where you have nothing but Water and Houfe- 
room, fo that what you eat and drink, youmuft carry with you. 
From Caire to Alexandria it is about an hundred and fifty miles by Land, 
which is commonly travelled in three days, becaufe thçy travel day and night, 
refting a little in the Morning and Afternoon. I faw nothing in Alexandria 
but what 1 had feen the time before, when I was there, only they (iewed rac 
Hhoumes ^ Hhouame^ and told me that thefe Hhouames are a fort of Vagabond People 
among the Arahs^ who lodge as they do, under Tents, but have a certain 
particular Law to themfelves ^ for every night they perform their Prayers and 
Ceremonies under a Tent without any Light, and then lye with the firfi: they 
meet, whether it be Father, Mother, Sifter or Brother ; and this is far worîè 
than the Religion of the Adamites. Thefe People though, fculk and keep pri- 
vate in the City, for if they be known to be Hhouames-, they are Burned 
Alive. 
CHAP. LXXXV. 
Our arrival at Bouquer ; a Ship cafi away in the 
Tort of Alexandria. A dejcnftion of Bou- 
quer. 
I stayed at Alexandria till the Ship was ready, whereof the Purfer having 
given us notice, wefent away our Goods and Provifions, which we had 
Erepared before hand, for one muft not delay thofe preparations till the Ship 
e juft ready to fail. When a man is alone it is no bad way to agree with 
the Captain for Diet, efpecially with the Englilh, who treat well, but befides 
that, one muft ftill have fome fmall provifion for himfelf in private. For our 
parts being five in company, to wit, three Marfeillefe, my felf and my man, 
we provided all things for ourfelves. 
We took Boat then on Thnrfday the thirtieth of January ^ to go on board 
the Ship, which was at Bouquer^ ( but LOt before we and our Goods had been 
fearched at the Cuftome-houfej where we were encompafl^ed with an Army 
of Rogues that begged fomething of us, and to fay the truth, it is no -eafie 
matter, for a Stranger to Embark there, for there are fo many of thefe Raf- 
cals to whom fome M^idins muft be given, that one is quite Stunned with 
them. At length being in the Boat, we went to the Block-houfe to give in our 
Cockets, to ihe w that all our Goods had been fearched at the Cuftome-houfe 5 
and there it behoved us alfo to pay three Maidins a piece ; but thofe that 
are zt Bouquer, cannot be fearched, for they are without the reach of Cannon 
ihot. 
From the Farillon or Block-houfe, we went ftreight to Bouquer, where we 
arrived about fix a Clock at Night, but it blew fo hard, that we durft not 
go a board the Ship y fo that^e put a-fhoar and lodged in a CofFee-Houfe, 
keeping our Boat with us, for there was none to be found there, and that 
was the reafon we came by Sea, and not over Land, knowing very well that 
we ffiould find no Boats there j befides it is more convenient and cheaper 
to 
