Part IL Travels into the Levant. 
by Bagdad, promifing to give them fafe ConduCI: for twenty Ck^«/«/ a Man, fothat 
moft part (to fave fifteen Chequ'ms,) went by Bagdad^znà a very few came by Bajfora. 
This is the Road from Bajfora to Mecha. which the Pilgrims commonly take. The Road 
They fet out from Bajfora by the Eafi Gate, and go to Vgiam-Hali three Agatfch ^^iffora. 
from Ba£m4;, where there is bitter water in the Ditch of a Caftlc that ftands in that '° 
place where heretofore the Town of Bajfora was .built : the way to it from Bajfora 
is by a Caufey, which hath falt-water on each fide. They go from thence to 
Îfgéel-Senan, five Agatfch off, where there is frefli-water j from Vgebel-Senan to 
7fcha-Haffer, where they find a Wel^of indifferent good water, and that is fix 
Agatfch Journy. In this place they make ProviCon of water for feven days * 
Travelling, in all which way there is neither water nor Habitation to be found. 
Having Travelled feven days, they find a Well of good water, where they pro- 
vide themfelves for fix days, at the end of which they come to Anize^ which is a 
Well of frefti- water, where they make provifion again for three days, in which 
time they arrive at Niged, where there are two Caftles oppofite to one another, 
and iiihabited by Arabs. They may have Vidtuals here for mony, but the water 
is bad i however they muft make provifion of it for five days, and at five days . 
end they find a Well, where they take for two days more: after that, they find 
another Well of bitter water i and yet muft make Provifion of it for four days, 
which being over, they come to a Well called Heram-Baglar-lar. In this place all 
the Pilgrims ftrip, and leave nothing upon their bodies, butaCloath to cover their 
Nakednefs. Having taken water at this Well for feven days, they continue their 
march to Vgebel- Parafât, where they fpend the night in throwing ftones at the 
Devil i and next Morning, hailing made the Courban, they put on their Cloaths 
again. There are Wells at Vgebel-Harafat^ where they take water enough to ferve Diibt!~flara~ 
them to Mecha, which is but a day and a halfs Journy diftant. From Mecha they fit- 
go to Vadi-Y atima^ the place where the Tomb oïFatima is, twelve days Journy di- 
ftant, wherein there are Wells, but no Habitation to be found. From Vadi-Fatims 
they goto Medina five days Journy diftant \ and they come from Medina to 7fchah- Tfchah-Maffsr. 
Haffer in five and thirty days, and from thence to Bajfora. 
The Baflya hath a great many lovely Country-Houfes, and amongft others Gour- 
dilan^ which is oppofite to the mouth of the little Canal of Bajfora^ and on the 
other fide of S chat-El- Aarab. 
The Subjedis of the Bajha of Bajfora are either Aarabs or Sabeans, but befides who are the 
thefe, there are fome Perfians and Indians that live in the Capital City, and thefe fj^e^^^^a°^of 
lift have Pagods there. No Fra/ik^ live there, except the Reverend Fathers Car bajfora ° 
melites who have a Houfe, on the Terrafs vyhereof they put out the Banner of the carmélites, 
Crofs. They have their Church in that Houfe, which not only fervesthe Fran\s^ 
but alfothe Armenians znà Nejiorians, who come to the Town during the Moufon \ 
they come there to Pray, but fay not Mafs in it. The Ba(ha hath always fome 
Prefentfrom thefe good Monks for that Houfe: The other Frank^, to wit, the 
PortHguefe, Englijh, or Dutch, come not to Bajfora but in the Moufon, and depart 
in their Ships at the end of it. 
But two days before 1 came to Baffora,û\e Dutch had burnt a great deal of Cinna- Cunning of 
mon, becaufe the Merchants would not give them the price they demanded for it, ^he Dutch in 
which made them in anger fay publickly that they would burn it, which they did ^^f^^^g ^^eir 
at home in their Houfe i and they confumed fo great quantity of it, that it was 
fmelt all over the Neighbourhood. 
During the Moujon, the Franh^ and all other ftrangers are well received at Bajfora, Liberty at iBa/: 
and no body molefts or wrongs them. Every one may wear a white Turban, /i""*. 
and the green colour there,of whatfoever Religion he be ■■> and that not only during 
the Moufon, but at any other time -, not but that I have been told that out of the 
Moufon, they pretty often fqucezed the Franhj who ftaied behind there. 
I muft now fayfomewhat the S abeans. They areotherwife called Chriftians The Sabeans 
of St. John, (but very improperly,) for they are more Gentiles than Chriftians, and Chriftians 
one of them (who turned Reman Catbolick^, and was of thofe who went to Rome °^ 
fome years ago,) alTured me that they were partly Chriftians, partly "Turks, partly 
Jerps, and partly Gentiles. The truth is, if becaufe of Baptifm (which they re- ThcBapdfm 
tain, in memory of St.Johns Baptifing our Saviour,) they ought to be called Chri- °^ 
ftians> the 'ïurkj may in the fame mannet be faid to be of the Jemjh Religion, be- 
caufe of Circumcifion. It is in reality but a name of Baptifm, for they Baptife 
Y a not 
