TO THE HOLY LAND. n* 
?i . n gly have avoided. It was. Whether I came to 
v *fit the holy places out of devotion? I anfwered 
'Without ambiguity, No. What, continued the 
^lonk, who was a Spaniard, travel to the Holy 
Land without devotion ? I was for putting an end 
to this difagreeable converfation, and began ano- 
ther fubjed, by talking of money. I counted to 
him fixty-two piaftres for myfelf, and the like fum 
my fervant. This money every Frank pays in 
Juffa, for his whole journey to Jerufalem and back 
a Saim I left all my things in his charge till my re- 
hfn, only a fuit of cloaths and fome books, to dry 
P'ants in, which were fent to Jerufalem before me; 
and I then put on a Levant coat and a Greek cap, 
frying nothing with me but my memorandum 
°°k. After thefe preparations had been made, 
' e Procurator fent a ineffenger to Jerufalem to ad- 
}i '. e them of my arrival, and I was obliged to wait 
‘ s return. I was well pleafed with this delay, as it 
~‘ lVe me time to reft myfelf, after a difagreeable 
°yage, before I fet out on a journey yet more dif- 
jt> r eeable by land, I was now come into the Iloly 
f( ?H therefore had reafon to expeft continual in- 
Rations of holy things. The Monks began with 
v, Clr hotel, by informing me that it was the holy 
tvf Ce w ^ ere St, Peter had his ft (king hut, and 
lere he threw the famous ring into the fea. 
w Cl .y thing, even to the table on which we fupped, 
L°ly. The wine we drank came from the holy 
Where St. John dwelt; and the olives grew 
: the Muuuium ui vjuves lit 
1 , c P c ndent of their holinefs, were of the belt kind 
fountain of Olives near Jerufalem. Thefe, 
3lw Ul ^ ec * * u [ L e Levant, being fuch as Paleftine, 
tk Q y/ s Ltmous for Olive-trees, affords. Amongft 
ft cl-i Wh ° v ^ tc ^ rac > during my ffay in Jaffa, was 
of the cuftoms, who on the third day came to, 
I 3 receive 
