Chamber. 
JERUSALEM. 299 
apartment seventy-nine years before our chap. 
comino; \ 
A plentiful supper w^as served, in a large 
room called the Pilgrims' Chamber. Almost pilgrims' 
all the monks, together with their Superior, 
were present. These men did not eat with us ; 
having their meals private. After we had 
supped, and retired to the dormitory, one of the 
friars, an Italian, in the dress worn by the 
Franciscans, came into our apartment, and, 
giving us a wink, took some bottles of Noyaic 
from his bosom, desiring us to taste it : he said 
that he could supply us with any quantity, or 
quality, of the best liqueurs, either for our con- 
sumption while we staid, or for our journey. 
We asked him whence it was obtained ; and he 
informed us, that he had made it; explaining 
the nature of his situation in the monastery, 
by saying, that he was a confectioner ; that 
the monks employed him in works of ornament 
suited to his profession ; but that his principal 
employment was the manufacture of liqueurs-. 
(0 Dr. Shaw visited Jerusalem in 1722. 
(2) Perhaps for sale anions; tlie Mosfrms ; who Mjll make any 
sacrifice to ohtain ilrams of this nature. 
