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The Bedouins at this place, who are employed in 
the fervice of the Harems, more rarely have re- 
courfe to inoculation, their children being often 
brought up in company with thole of the Turks, by 
whom, as you juftly obferve, the practice is not 
admitted. But the Bedouins, lefs connected with the 
Turks, who dwell within the city ; thofe who live 
in tents without the city walls, and the Arabs of the 
adjacent defart under the Emir, do commonly in- 
oculate their children. 
It being highly probable that a pradtice, which 
was fo common in thefe parts, might be known alfo 
to the more Eaftern Arabs, I applied for information 
to feveral Turkifh merchants of Bagdat and Mouful, 
who occalionally refide a few months in the year at 
Aleppo. By thofe I was allured, that inoculation 
was not only common in both the cities firft men- 
tioned, but ahb at BafTora ; and that at Mouful 
particularly, when the fmall pox firfl appeared in any 
diftridt of the city, it was a cuftom fometimes to 
give notice by a public crier, in order that fuch as were 
inclined might take the opportunity to have their 
children inoculated. 
I enquired at the fame time of the Bagdat mer- 
chants, whether the Arabs, who dwell on the 
banks of the river between that city and BafTora, 
ufed the fame method of propagating the fmall pox. 
They told me, they believed it to be common alfo 
among thofe Arabs ; though (with an ingenuity not 
ufual in this country) they owned they had never 
thought of enquiring about the matter, and might 
therefore perhaps be miftaken. But I afterwards had 
an 
