Part IL Travels into the Levant 
come from Mnftd to Bagdad. About half an hour after lix we faw to the 
left hand a Village called hnam-Samer'va. About eleven a clock we paffed by Itnam Samer^ 
another Village called Hedgiadge^ which is in Aîejopotamia Three hours af- "^'t- ^ 
ter, we faw another on the fame fide, named Elhan, and befides it, fome Hon- ^'jf^^^ 
fes,' all that Land being called Digel. Half an hour paft fix in the evening wo l^-^^Jj' 
put a (hoar on our left hand, where I was told of another-gucfs prowefs of a 
Lion, than what I had been told of that of Kiz.il-Han. They faid then, that 
not long before, a Caravan paffihg by that place, a Lion came, who fstting 
upon a young Boy mounted on an Afs, that came after the reft, carried away 
both Boy and Afs in view of the whole Caravan. After Supper we went up- 
on the water again, about nine of the clock at night, and for the fpace of 
half an hour heard on our right hand many Chakales very near us, which 
called the Lions, and after that we faw no more Woods. We began then to 
make the befl of our way by night as well as by day, becaufe there are no 
more Banks, and the River is very broad, but alfo fo ftill, that it can hardly 
be difcerned which way it runs. We paft by feveral Villages, moftof which 
were on Mefopotamia-iidQ. 
Next day, being Friday the fifteenth oï Augufi, we faw about noon many 
Boats near the fhoar, which have Mafts like Sakks, and ferve to carry Corn 
to Bagdad ùomthQ neighbouring Villages. We then difcovered lèverai Palm- 
Trees, and many of thofe Wheels they call Dollah^ which ferve to draw wa- 
ter out of Wells, as at Half an hour after fix in the evening we ftoptac 
a Village called J(??^^%e on the left hand; there are many Gardens there, 
where they ibid us good Figs, Pomegranats, and very big long Grapes. At 
that place we were not altogether fàfe from Lions, feeing the people cf the 
Countrey told us, that they come often into their Gardens, and that one 
morning a Lison came to the very Suburbs of Bagdad that lies on the Defart- 
fide, where it feized a man who had rifen too early. Neverthelefs, betwixt 
Tenghige and Bagdad there are feveral Villages, with a great many Gardens. Jcnghige; 
We parted about nine a clock at night, and next day, being Saturday the 
fixteenth of Augnfiy at two a clock in the afternoon pafTed by a Village called 
Imam-Moufa, which is on the right hand: It is a place of Pilgrimage, whi- imam-Mouft. 
ther people refbrt from afar, and the Women of Bagdad go thither every 
Friday^ it being only an hours march by Land. A little after we faw ano- 
ther Village on our left hand, caWsd Imam- Aaz,em^ which is like wife a phcQ Imam-Aa^em 
of Pilgrimage ; and about five of the clock in the evening we arrived at 
Bagdad. 
In that Voyage they fpeak every where Turkijh^ but it is Perjian TurkiJJi xhe Turl^j/^ 
which differs fomewhat from that of Greece; and the nearer .S^^</^^/, the more Langu.ige to, 
the Turkijh Language differs from that of Confiantinopk. v/^rdsBagdad. 
CHAP. XIV. 
Of Bagdad, and of the Road from Bagdad to 
Mendeli, the laft Place the Turks have on the 
Confines of Perfia. 
BAGDAD is a long Town lying upon the River-fide ; the firft thing one Bagdad 
fees in arriving, is the Cafltle on the fide of the River to the left hand, 
which on the outfide appears to be pretty ftrong : It is built of lovely white 
Stone, but I was told that there was nothing within but Huts. Below that 
Caflle, upon the water-fide alfo. Hands the Serraglio of the Bafha, which 
hath fair Kiochks, from whence they have a good Profpeft, and frefh Air, 
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