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quarter of a league to our left, I only looked at it in 
passing with the crowd of pilgrims; but I took a sketch 
of it. , 
Upon turning the road to the east-south-east about 
three o'clock, I saw a small spring of fresh water, with 
stone basins; and shortly after I entered Mina, where 
the first thing I perceived was a fountain, in front of 
which is an ancient edifice, said to have been built by 
the devil. 
The town of Mina, called by some Mona, is com- 
posed of a single street, which is so long, that it took 
me twenty minutes to pass through it. There are 
several handsome houses in it; but the greater num- 
ber are in ruins, and without roofs. There are several 
dwellings of dry stone, about five feet high, which they 
let to pilgrims during the time of Easter. 
About four o'clock they pitched my camp upon 
the eastern side of Mina, in a little plain, where there 
was a mosque, surrounded by a wall that resembled a 
fortification. 
The country lies in a valley, between mountains of 
granite rocks, that are perfectly bare. The road, which 
was very level, upon a sandy bottom, was covered 
with camels, with persons on foot or on horseback, 
and with a great number of schevrias, of the same form 
as my own. 
A detachment of Wehhabites, mounted upon dro- 
medaries, which I saw at the foot of Djebel, arrived, 
and encamped also before the door of the mosque. 
This was followed by several others also mounted; so 
that in a short time the plain was covered. About sun- 
set, the Sultan of the Wehhabites, named Saaoud, 
arrived; and his tents were pitched at the foot of a 
mountain, at a short distance from mine. 
