1 18 T ray els into the Levant. ' Part IL 
Gardens full of Trees. About eight a Clock in the Morning we arrived at a fair large 
Chajer. Kervanftray, called Kervanferay Chafer^ from the name of a Village clofe by it, on 
the River-fide, which at this place is dwindled away almoft to nothing \ this is a 
great Village, and nothing to be feen in it but Gardens, with long Walks in them, 
, where one may take the Air under the (hade of Orange-Trees, which areprodigi- 
dufly big, and bear much Fruit. There they have plenty alfo of Limon, Pome- 
granate, Date, and other Fruit-Trees of all forts, nay and Vines alfo i and the 
River runs in a bottom by the back of the Village: in (hort, it is a very agreeable 
place, efpecially to thofe who have Travelled over large, barren, and dry Coun- 
tries-, this Village is three y^^az/cl? from P^irj. 
We left that pleafant Quarter Friday^ the Twentieth of March, half an hour 
after one a Clock in the morning, keeping ftill Somh-Eajiwards in our way, but a 
little toward the South, in a fair even and fmooth Road ; about four of the Clock 
wecrofTed a large Brook of running water, which comes from the River of Paira 
below chafer -, and a little after we crolTed a Canal of running water, over a little 
, Bridge. We afterwards croffed feveral other little Brooks, having always to our 
Right Hand a great many Villages, about break of day it behoved us to pafs 
one large Brook more i and about fix a Clock in the Morning we found a little 
Houfe where Rahdars : about two or three Musket-(hot from thence, at the 
TaAivun. foot of a Hill, there is a Village call Tadivan, where the River of Paira lofes it felf ^ 
and ends. 
Families of Upon that Road wc met feveral Arabs with their Wives and Children on Ca- 
Arabs. mds, which carried all their baggage alfo -, they were driving their Flocks of Sheep 
and Goats. Since cur departure (rom Schirai we dayly met fuch, and they came 
from about Gemron and Lar. Thefe Arabs Lodge under black Tents, and have 
vaft Flocks, wherein confifts the greateft part of their fubftance : and that is partly 
the reafon that they have no fixed Habitation, and that they even remove from one 
Country into another in the different feafons of the Year, jufl: as fome Birds doe : 
For ita the Spring they leave the Country of Lar, and other places thcieabouf, 
where the Heat is too great i and packing up bag and baggage betake themfelves 
with their whole Families towards Coac/)o«z?r, which is a Village, I have menti- 
oned, with very good Land about it: and when Winter begins to draw nigh, 
they pack up their Houfes again, and with their Flocks return towards Lar and 
Gomron, where it is never Cold. It is not only theH.at that in the Summer-time 
drives them out of the hot Countrys, but alfo the fcarcity of water, for they need' 
a great deal for their Flocks. They are almoft all Black, both men and women, 
have long black Hair, and cover not their Faces. 
About Nine a Clock in the Morning we entered into ftony way, where we kept 
marching till half an hour after Ten, that ue arrived at a little Kervanferay, called 
Mouchik: Moucheh^, ftanding by it felf, and built in ftony ground furrounded with Hills: 
about lome hundred paces behind this Kervanferay there is a great round Ci(lern,four 
or five fathom in Diamètre, and is veiy deepi it is covered with a great Dome of 
rough ftone, that hath fix Entries, by fo many Doors that are round it, by which 
they go in to draw water, which in the Spring-time is fo high, that it comes almoft: 
up to the Doors, fwellingfo high by the Rain-water in the Winter-time, by means of , 
a Trench that comes from a neighbouring Hill : at each Door there are fteps to go- 
down to the bottom, when the water is low, for there is no other water in that place. 
Ciflertîs, They make, befides,in thofe Quarters Cifterns after another manner \ they are of an 
Oblong Square, covered with a long Convex Vault, (haped much like the Roof 
of a Coach, with a Door at each end : and one of thefe ways are all the Cifterns 
from that place to Bender, built. 
We parted from that Kervanferay, which is fix Agatjch diftant from Chafer, Sa- 
turday the one and twentieth ©f May, half an hour after Two a Clock in the 
Morning, and had ftony way till about Four, after that we found a good Road 
which led us full South : about half an hour after Five we paft by the Walls of z 
ruinated Kervanferay, with a Ciftern adjoining it : about Seven a Clock we found 
fome Brooks, and then Travelled amongft good Corn-Field*, until half an hour 
after Ten, when having paffed by a great many Garden^, we arrived at a large 
Vgiaroun. Kervanferay, which is about an hundred paces from a liitle Town called Vgiaroun, 
and is hardly worth a good Village -, however there is a fair Bazar in it. This Towrr 
is on all Hands encompaffed with Gardens full of Falm- Trees, which there are fo 
numerous 
