ii 6 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
TO THE HOLY LAND. 
T HE firft of April, 1751, we anchored be- 
fore Jaffa, called Joppa in the Holy Scrip- 
ture, after four days voyage from Damiata. This 
town has no harbour, and the veffels muff an- 
chor in the open road, which obliges them to put 
to fea in the lead bad weather, as is the cafe at 
Damiata. The water was fo (hallow on this coaft, that 
our boat could not reach land, and we were obliged 
to be carried on fhore. We were fet down at the 
fine ftone wharf lately built on the (hore : it is the 
only one I have feen of this kind in the Levant. I 
went firft with my Captain to a French fa&or, who 1 
is kept here by the merchants in Rama, and is the 
only Frank who dwells in Jaffa, being an old mam 
and having two Tons. 
I went from thence to the quarters of the La tit* 
monks, who are here to receive Pilgrims, and take 
care to forward them. They were two Monks* 
one Pried and one Layman, who was Procurator. * 
had a bad lodging, becaufe their building was vetf 
fmall, and the avarice of the Turks did not perm‘ c 
them to extend it, though they ought to have 
largeft lodgings in the Levant, on account of tbs 
number of travellers that land there; but I w'as weft 
treated. The Procurator began directly to make 
preparations for my journey to Jerufalem. 
commenced with a queftion which I fliould wjP 
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