302 ’ CLARKE'S TRAVELS. 
some time, extended upon the ground, he vainly endeavoured 
to obtain some repose. The rest of the party, seated upon 
carpets near the general, informed that officer of the danger 
to which we had been exposed from the conduct of our es¬ 
cort; and besought an additional guard to accompany us as 
far as Jennin, upon the frontier of the Pacha of Damascus, 
whence Djezzar’s soldiers were to return to Acre. This was 
readily granted. A large bowl of pilau, or boiled rice, w as 
then brought, with melons, figs, sour milk, boiled mutton, and 
bread cakes, which they described as baked in the sun’s rays. 
The author was too ill to witness the truth of this; but no 
one of the part}^ entertained any doubt of the fact. Djezzar’s 
officers who were in the tent joined in this repast, and fed 
heartily, helping themselves to the pilau with their fingers ; 
eating all out of the same bowl; and shaking off the grains 
of rice as they adhered to their greasy hands, into the mess, 
of which all were partaking. The most interesting personage 
present upon this occasion was an Arab prince from the 
mountains, a young man who arrived with terms of truce. 
He was served in a part of the tent exclusively appropriated 
to his use; while a third service was also placed before the 
general. The dress of the young emir, considering his 
high rank, was worthy of particular notice. A simple rug 
across his body, afforded its only covering. A dirty hand¬ 
kerchief, or coarse napkin, was bound about his temples. 
These constituted the whole of his appareh His legs and 
feet were naked. As this curious banquet was going on, a 
party of Turks, who were with the general, sat round the 
border of the tent, with their pipes in their mouths, silently 
gazing at our party : near to these were stationed the attend¬ 
ants of the mountain emir, between whom and their lord 
there was not the slightest distinction of dress. The meal be¬ 
ing finished, the young prince began his parley with the 
general; telling him, that he came to offer his tribute due to 
JQjezzar; to crave protection for his clan or family, and 
for his flocks. This business ended, all that were in the tent 
prepared to take their nap, arid, having stretched themselves 
upon the same carpets which had served for their dinner ta¬ 
bles, fell fast asleep. 
Here, on this plain,* the most fertile part of all the land of 
# Called by way of eminence, “ The great Plain,” Mtya PLA'cv; in Scripture,’ 
i*nd elsewhere, the “ great Plain, or Field of Esdraelon,” the “ Field of Megiddo,” 
the “Galilean Plain.” Xt was afterward called the “ X J lain of Saba.” “Etadverte,” 
