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Travels into theh^vAn t. l'art II.' 
To^r/ic-CalaJî. 
Liquorice- 
water. 
Blades, having ftript themfelves naked, came fwimming, and asked Bread of 
us ; they had it, and fo returned, carrying each two Loaves, one upon their 
head, and the other in one hand, which they held out of the water, fwim- 
ming only with the other hand. We had ftill Woods to our left, and by in- 
tervals fome Hills, and (hortly after we had Woods alfo to the right hand. In 
lèverai places on the fame fide we faw a great many of the Summer-houfes of 
ûiQ Arabs, but HO body in therll. 
Half an hour after five in the evening, we faw upon a little Hill on the 
fame hand the ruins of a Caftle called tofrac-Calaft. There were fome Houfes 
OÏ Arabs ûiQYQ; and the other Xe/ec^ having ftopt a few minutes near Land, 
they ftolean Aibe of Cloth, which is a kind of a Veft, and no body perceived 
it till they were gone. Thefe Arabs fow Millet thereabouts, of which they 
make their Bread, eating no other. 
We ftopt that day in the morning and at noon to do the needs of Nature, 
as it was our cuftom, and then continued our way, having always Hills on 
the right hand ; and about Sun-fetting we went a-fhoar at a place on the left 
hand, where there is abundance of Lions, and where one muft have a fpecial 
care of Arabs ; for fome time ago the Arabs robbed a Keleck in that very place, 
having on board almoft fourlcore people, whom they killed, and then over-let 
the Keleck, that it might be thought it over-fetof it lelf. Hardly were we ar- 
rived, when three Arabs came fwimming over to us from the other fide ; wc 
gave them Bread, and fo let them going. 
We parted next morning ( Monday the eleventh of Augufi) at break of day, 
and had Hills ftill on our right hand. About eight a clock we pafled near 
one of thefè Hills, on which the people of the Countrey fay there is a Caftle 
named Mekhoul-Calaai, by the name of a Franck who built it. About nine 
a clock we faw the ends of thefb Hills. The Liquorice which I found by 
the way when we went a-fhoar, was very ufeful to me ; for 1 infufed it in 
the water which I drank, and that pleafed me better than common water, 
which not only made me fweat exceffively (for I voided by the pores as 
much as I drank,) but alfb it raifed onmefèveralBhfîers, that pricked me like 
fb many needles as often as I drank or fate down ; whereas when I drank 
Liquorice-water, I felt none of thefe inconveniences. I had befides Sumack, 
which is almofl like Hemp-feed, wherewith 1 made another fort of Drink, 
by putting a little of that grain into water, and after pounding it ; that yiel- 
ded me a very red Water, but very cooling and wholfbm ; and if a little Salt 
be added to it, it makes it much pleafanter. They ufe a great deal of Sumack ; 
and when it is beat and put into Brofti, it is very wholfbm, and a good re- 
medy againft the Bloody-Flux. 
They futFer no man to make a Tent upon thefe Kelecks to keep out the 
Sun ; nay they would not fufFer me to hold a bough of a Tree over my 
head, becaufe of the wind, which might over-fet the Keleck : but I found a 
way to defend my felf againft the heat of the Sun, by lying half at length, fb 
that ray head was a little higher, almoft as if I had been fitting. In this po- 
fture I faflened one end of my Abehohind my head, and covered my fèlf 
with the reft in manner of a Tent, by means of three fticks, of which one 
thati held between my Legs upheld it in the middle, and was like the main 
Pile ; the other two fupporred it on the two fides. In this manner I had a 
pretty convenient fhade, and the wind ever almoft on one fide or other ; but 
notwithftanding all m.y circumfpedion, I fufFered great heats, efpecially fome 
days, when there was not a breath of wind. About noon, the Hills began 
again, and thefe Mountains run along as far as the Indies ; they call them 
Dgebel Hemrin : I believe they are the Mountains called Cordaci by ^intus 
Curtius in his fourth Book and tenth Chapter. 
Towards two of the clock we palled near to a Caftle which is in Mefopo- 
tamia, called Gioubbar Calat\ and fome time after, we faw a little Hill to the 
left hand, called AkunDaghi, that's to fay, the Hill of Gold, becaufe the^r^i^j 
digging in it here and there find a little Gold, About four a clock v^/e paffed 
that place, where they that go down the Tjgris (as we did,j begin to have the 
Mounts Hebrin to the left, which till that place they have always had to the 
right, and on the fide of Mefopotamia. It is the tradition, that the River 
here- 
StimacI^. 
Dgebel Hem- 
rin. 
Montes Corda- 
ci. 
Gioubbar Ca- 
lai. 
Altun Daghi. 
