Pareil. Travels tntff the Lev AST 
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quality would not grudge to pay atleaft ten in Frame. Nay, which is worfè, 
if the patient be not cured, or if he dye, the Phyiician many times is bla- 
med and fmarts for it. And I was told at Jleppo, that one day a certain 
Do(n:orof that profeffion, in whofe hands a patient miicarried, was led about 
the City of Aleppo with little Bells about him, to give notice to the People 
that they fhould not employ him. I warn alfo thofe that come to Aleppo 
that thev fail not to fee the Birds of Grandomlles. 
CHAP. ÏX. 
Of the Road to Moful Bir a?id (3rfa. 
A Fter two Months Hay in Aleppo^ I let two Caravans go which were Caravans for' 
bound for Erz,emm ; becaufè one muft fometimes wait a long while at Erx^emm. 
Erz,erum, fot a Caravan to Re'van^ and at Revan for one to Tatiris^ and in 
thofe parts the Francks have no protection ; be/ides there is much robbing on 
that road. At length there was one ready to fet out for Moful, and I rcfol- 
ved to go with it, contrary to the advice of all the Francks, who would have 
perfwaded me to ftay till the heats were over, 
I agreed with a Turk who had hired feveral Mules, and gave him thirty Agreement 
Fiafires, to tranfport me, my man and baggage by Land to Moful, and from for ti'an/por- 
Mo/hl to Bagdad by Keleck, and to clear me of all Caffares ; fbme days after '^tolvîo 
he would^have three Piafires more, and Cloath-Stockins for four Fiajlres : I yj^/ 
gave hmTall in hand, as he defired, though I thought it nor the fafefi: courfe, dad. 
but onely that I miight not baulk a friend from whom I had received many 
kindnefTes, and who had made the bargain for me : Seeing he had never tra^ 
veiled that Journey himfelf, and that he thought every man as honefl as 
he was, he perfwaded himfelf that he had done very well for me. In the 
mean time the onely way is, to bargain with the Muletors, and not to pay 
them in hand; for if I had done fo, it would not have cofï me fo much. 
That Turk payed the Muletor but fifteen Viafires for the two Mules and a 
half that I had loaded, and all the refï of the Caravan payed no more but 
i)x Pmfifès a Mule. Befides, that "infidel told me many times upon the road Six Piaftres 
that he had neither agreed for my baggage nor for the Caffares, and would Mule, 
have I know not how many Tiafires more ; and in fine, I was forced to 
pay new charges from Mojul to Bagdad. 
I parted from Aleppo an Sunday the nine and twentieth of June, accompa- 
nied with feveral Freiuh Merchants on Horfe-back, who would needs do me 
that honour, to fee me to the Caravan, which was in the Meidan, by the 
Gardens, clofe by the City. I went out by the Gate Bab-El-Barkoufa, and 
my Servant told me who had been there with my Goods two days ; that 
the Night before one of my Fire-locks had been Ifollen, and fbme Goods A Ttieft. 
taken from others : It behoved me t j be contented fince others wens in the 
lame condition, and that they told me they had feen the Thieves and pur- 
fued them, but could not overtake them. Thefe thieves Aide cunninglv 
along upon their bellies like Snakes ; and therefore in all that Journey, they 
lye not in tents in the Night-time ; but on the contrary unpitch them at Night, 
becaufè then, ( as they fay, ) they ferve onely for fpeftacles to Robbers. 
Next morning at the break of day we fet forward on our Journey, and 
were at firft troubled with cold for fome time. We marched till nine of the 
Clock and then encamped in a Field called Sammaia, near the River of Sammai^t. 
Aleppo that runs by this place, and has a little Bridge over it. i 
We parted from thence on Tucfday the firft of 'july about break of day ; 
and about nine a Clock we met a great Caravan coming from Moful, in 
which there was a Watch-maker, who came from Ver fa, where he had 
long lived with his Wife and Children. After we had difcourfed a little toge 
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