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dred Dollars they pay him annually, when one would 
think the whole Village was not able to make up the 
Summ of One hundred ; yet being the remoteft Place 
that was under his Jurifdidion, they often fuffer by the 
Inroads of the other. The Name of the Place is Tarecca^ 
a Name it received (as we were informed ) from a Vi- 
ftory obtained there by the Turks over the Mawa- 
lukes. 
Oiiohr thQ 9th. From Tarecca we mounted early, and 
travelling N. E. or near that Point, in feven hour's time 
arrived at Soukney. The Road we found much like what 
we had the day before, lying over a barren Plain only 
we had Hills on both fides, and fometimes clofing within 
half an hour's riding one of the other. The Village has 
its Name from the Hot Waters, ( for fo the word im- 
ports,) which are of the fame Nature with thofe of 
tadmor 5 herein they Bathe frequently, the fame little 
dirty Hole ferving both for Men and Women ; only they 
have fo much Modefty remaining, that they have diffe- 
rent hours for one and the other. To fay the truth, 
'twas the only mark of Modefty I could obferve among 
them in other refpeds they feemed a Confident, or 
rather Impudent Generation of People. Before we 
could pitch our Teats, they flockt about us in multi- 
tudes, Men, Women, and Children ; and of the laft, 
many of them as naked as ever they came into the 
World, not fo much as a Rag about them to cover them ; 
and fo numerous they appeared, that if we had reafon 
to think Tarecca wanted Inhabitants, we had no left, to 
conclude Soukney over-ftockt. At this Place ufiially 
refides an Officer of Jffyne'Sy who is their Sub-Bafha, 
or Governor : He whom we found there, was cdMDor^ 
of a good Family among the Jrah^ to whom we made 
a Preftnt and he civilly return'd it in Barley for our 
Horfes. Afterward he came under our Tents, and invited 
us to an Entertainment I which, confidering the Cir- 
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