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TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
TO JERUSALEM. 
G OOD Friday fell on the 1 2 th of April, new ftyle. 
Every one may imagine that it was particu- 
larly celebrated in Jerufalem, as being the place 
where tlrofe things happened, which make this day 
facred to all Chriftians. The ceremonies at the 
holy Sepulchre were thefe :t.We went in the church 
at three o’clock in the afternoon, when the officium 
began as ufual; and ended when the Superior fell 
on his knees before the door of the holy Sepulchre, 
and faid his prayers. 2. At fix o clock we went into 
the little convent, which the Latins have befide tn 
church, through which they go into the veftry room. 
Here we fupped, which was the miferableft meal 
ever eat: it confifted of ahead of lettuce; the de- 
ficiency was to be made up with bread and wine, 
two material articles for the refrefhmcnt and fulte- 
nance of man, and which the Monks always had 
very good. To be more at liberty, which is hard to 
obtain in a cloifter, I went with a Jefuit, who was a 
Pilgrim, into another chamber, where we were re- 
freshed with Hebron wine, and excellent bread, 
baked with oil, that we might fupport a whom 
night and day’s fatigue in beholding the ceremonies 
A° Capuchin, who came immediately after to us, 
made a better fupper than either of us ; in virtue 
a Canon ufed by the Monks, which he rehearled- 
“ IIuuud LU 
