Travels into the Levant. Part II 
Engli(h Man Mafter, who was a good Navigator, and had difcharged the fame 
Place in other Ships-, butfincethe War was then breaking out betwixt theEnglifh 
and Vutcby and that the Vtttch io\à him they could not fecuie him from their Men 
of War, who would certainîy make him Prifoner, if they met with hie:, "'he tc- 
fufed the Employment. Befides our Captain we had two Mabometan^Pilots^ one 
who was to carry us as far as the Ifle Carek^., and the other to Sunat where he was 
born. 
The Cargo of The Ship was loaded with Tndigo, Cloaths, and JW/^w Commodities that could 
the Ship Hope- not be vended at Bjjfora^ which we were to unload at Carek^, to be Tranfported 
into Perfia. Befides, (he had on Board a great quantity of Dates, ten Horfes, 
fome Chefts of Glafs in pieces, fome great Venetian Looking- Glafles, and a great 
many bags of mony. 
The price of We payed for our Paffage frc^B Baffora to Surra i forty Jhajjis, which are ten Pi- 
PafTage from ^(\x&s Ryalsa Headi but in Mahometan Ships this Paflage cofts no more but fifteen 
Bajora to Sur- ^y^jj.^^ j j^j^^j ^^ç^ Gunner a little Cabin for my felf in a corner of the 
A Cabin in Gun-Room, at the rate of forty Jbafis for the Voyage from Bajfora to Sttrrat. It 
the Ship. was fix Foot Idng, much about the fame height, and four or five Foot wide -, fo - 
that I was pretty well accommodated, having a Bed of Boards, two Foot raifed 
from the Deck; there was room enough in it for my Baggage, and I could Read 
and Write therein by day, by the light I had from a little skuttle i but in the night- 
time I could only fleep in it, bccaufe I had neither the convenience nor liberty of a 
Candle. I took care to carry on Board with mc a good large Jarr, which I had 
filled with very good water. Such as underftand the benefit of this, never fail 
to do fo > it is covered with a wooden cover, and Ihut with a Padlock i and is 
very ufeful, when frcfti water begins to.be fcarce on Board -, for then every one 
betakes himfelf to his Jarr i and though the Captain had laid in good ftore of 
frefh water, yet we had reafon to apprehend a fcarcity, becaufe befides a great 
many people, we Hid ten Horfes, feveral Sheep, Goats, and Pullets on Board. 
I made alfo a provifion of Bisket, and other neceffaries for fubfiftance i though 
I ate with the Captain and the other tliree Franks that were on Board. 
The Ships de- We fpent four days betwixt Bajfora zv\à the mouth of Schat-el-Jarah'-, becaufe 
parture from 3i]\ Saturday tht kvcnth of November wthy ftill before Baffora, that day being cm- 
c^f"'^"'/ ployed in clearing the Ship, and drinking Brandy with the Owners F/j^/, who 
Jarai' ' ftayed at Bajfora^ and fent another in his place to Surrat, where his Mafter was. 
That day then, was fpent till night in drinking the Selomet in fchailah, (thit is to 
fay to the good luck, if it pleafe God ) or the Foy, and that with the noife of 
Guns. At length the Merchant being gone, we weighed Anchor, but for a very 
fliort while i for we were obliged to drop it again at midnight, becaufe we could 
not advance but by the help of the Tide v fo that it behoved us to ftay for the Ebb 
before we weighed, and come to an Anchor again when it made Flood : and this 
courfe we were forced to take, not only till New Moon, which changed not till 
Saturday the feventh of November^ becaufe of the South-Eafi Wind that blew till 
that time i but alfo for fome days after the New Moon, though the Wind was got 
about to North-We^^ becaufe it was too eafie to ferve our turn. Befides, the dif- 
fenfion that was on Board the Ship was a great hinderance to us, for the Captain 
was of one mind, and the two Pilots each of another, all the Merchants likcwife 
putting in for their (hare inadvifing, This made the greater confufion, that one 
fpoke Armenian^ another Indian, a third Perfian, a fourth 7'urkijh, and a fifth Por- 
tuguefe i infomuch that moft commonly they underftood not what one another faid, 
which made a confufion amongft them, like that which God fent amongft the 
builders of the Tower of Babel. 
All that I thought fit to obferve in this Voyage till we got out to Sea, is that 
El-Feyaii. we paft betwixt the main Land of Bajfora, and the Ifle El-Feyadiy having that Ifle 
Bochali. to the Larboard, as well as Bochali and Boaarin. Two men did nothing but heave 
iQumn. out the Lead, to know how many Fathom water we had, and moft commonly 
they found three, four, or five Fathom : neverthelefs, Monday the ninth of No- 
ChiAtr, vemher, our Ship ftruck a ground, at the point of the Ifle of Chader, which lyes 
towards the River that goes to Bahrem i having but there eleven Foot water,a Foot 
lefs than two Fathom, and the Ship drew at leaft twelve Foot water. This obliged 
us to wait till next Flood carryed us off ; and then we left that Ifland to the Star- 
board. About feven a Clock at night we paft by the mouth of the Channel 
