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5'0 Camels with Baggs of Sand, and making fmali [loles 
in the Baggs for the Sand to drop out, he wouid drive 
thefe Camels abreaft upon us before the Wind, that the 
Sand might blow in our Eyes, and we (pending our 
Bullets on the Camels, might Co be eafily overthrown ; 
we anfwered, that we believed he would not venture 
his Camels and Horfes to (uch a Combat. He won- 
dered extreamly when we talked of Sho oting Birds fly- 
idg, and Hares running. 
This and other the like Violences ufed by this Jra^ 
Prince, made the Bajfaoi Aleppo refolve to deitroy him ; 
and not long after he cajolled him with the Hopes of 
being made King of the Arahs^ and to draw him near 
the City, he Veiled and Carelled fome of his Followers: 
which having its tSkdC, the Bajfa furprized him in bis 
Ttnts by Night, and foon after he was put to Death: 
This thofe People were willing to believe the efFed of 
their fo abufing the Englijh^ and might much contri- 
bute to the Security and good Ufage they found, that 
went the fecond time on this Expedition. 
We had not time to view thefe Ruins by reafbn of 
this ufage, though perhaps we might with fafety. We 
only took one of the Infcriptions as we paft by (^that 
of Pag. 89. of the lajl Tranfa^lton ) which was thus, 
CgnTMION OTOPOAHN TON KPATICTON 
GniTPonoN cgbactot aotkhnap-on 
KM AP.. AHHTHN lOTAlOC ATPHAlOC CANPMHC 
PVACCIANOT TOT W..A6NAIOT InnGTG 
POTPMAct^N TON ^IAON KAI RPOCTATHN 
eTOTC HO* MHNel SANAlK^t;. 
u^erein the principal difference is in the word a^Ti-yiW 
which in the account already publiflied is read d^i- 
iv^inv^ which feems to fignifie fome peculiar Officer of 
tlie Syrians^ as Ducemrius of the Lathes^ which per- 
Z haps 
