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Part IL Travels into the Levant 75 
We parted next day being Friday the fix and twentieth of September, a- 
bout three of the Clock in the Morning, and went up hi]i and down hill in 
pretty good way for the fpace of three hours. I obferved by the ways fide 
lèverai Rocks of black Stone, rifing a little out of the ground, which were Black Scone 
all divided into Tables, hardly thicker than blew Slates and much about the 
iame colour, but joyned very cjofe together. Half an hour after fix, we came 
into a great Plain, where we found Water in three or four places, and 
there we travelled till eleven a Clock when we arrived at a Village called 
Ntcbouan, which we went almoft quite through, and came to refi: in a great Nichouan. 
Kewanferat pretty commodious, but ugly, and all built of pieces of unburnt 
«reyifli Earth. There are two others in this Village which we paft by, they 
are fraall but feemed to me to be neater. We flayed there the day follow- 
ing to refrefh our Beafts, and parted on Suiîday the feven and twentieth of 
September, about half an hour after nine at Night : We travelled up hill and 
down hill by intervals, but ftill in fair and foft way. 
Sunday Morning the eight and twentieth of September, half an hour before 
day, we palled by a great Village called F<^^ç^yo««;all that I could there obferve Fagafotm. 
in the darknefs of the Night was, that having goq^ over a Bridge of five 
Arches upon^a finall Rivulet, we pafled along the fides of lèverai great 
Gardens, where there is plenty of Water. , Half an hour after fix in the 
Morning, we came to another Village called \thoua, where we lodged in a Ithoua. 
little Kewanferai, all built of Clods of unburnt greyifh Earth. An hours 
travelling from thence there is a little Town called Ghulpaigan, but we paft Gkdpaigan. 
not through it. 
We left this Lodging on Munday the nine and twentieth ol September, 
about two a Clock in the Morning, and had pretty good way. A little be- 
fore day, we went down into a very low and fpacious ground, all of white 
land, through which, (by what I could judge,^ foqie great torrent muft run 
when the fnow melts, for on both fides there are banks of Earth pretty 
high and fteep ; we left that way foon after, and going up hill a little, came 
into a great Plain, where haying proceeded a little, we flayed for the Cara- 
, van that was behind us, there being none before but tholè who were light 
mounted. The reafon why we made that halt was, becaufe at a pretty 
diflance we difcovered on the Plain near the hills, Ibme Horlè-men who kept 
ftill on the lame ground, and when we pafled them they made a great 
iÎTioak ; I know not the meaning of that fignal, but we underftood after- 
wards that they were fifteen in company, and had robbed a Caravan. A 
quarter of an hour after, we faw five Antelopes ; and at length about half an 
hour after nine, we carne to a good Ker'vanferai, near to a Village called 
Arbane. An hour after we had been there, a Horfe-man came in, and made ^^fbane.. 
fome turns there, whereupon Ibme of our company faying to one another 
that he was a robber, and that they ought to lay hands on him, he per- 
ceiving it, went out of the Ker'vanferai, and fo put fpars to his horfe, and 
made hafte to a Tree where two of his Comrades were. About Midnight 
Ibme Horlè-men bounced at the Gate of the Kervanjerai, and becaule we 
would not open to them, they made a great noife, till the Gate was opened ; 
they were ten in company confifting of Verfians, Curds and Arabs ; they 
were all armed with Lances, and fome had hawks upon their Fifts ; they 
asked if our Caravan was going to Ifpahan, and we asked them whither theV 
were bound : They faid to IJpaban, but when we asked them whence they 
came they would not tell, but onely that they were going to Ifpaban ; 
which made us think they were robbery, and therefore many of our com- 
pany flept not one wink, though afterwards we came to underftand that 
they were not robbers 
We fet out about three a Clock next Morning, and our ten Horlè-men- 
flayed behind in the Kervanferai^ which made fome think they onely came 
to plunder the Kervanjerai, and perhaps, to cut our Throats. About break 
of day we entered into a dangerous pafs for robbing ; for it is a narrow way 
betwixt high Rocks, behind which feveral men may lye hid, and fire upon 
whom they pleafe without being difcovered. We expeded to have met with 
rouble here, becaufe there had been fome Caravans robbed in this place, 
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