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Chap. V.
of Monfieur Taver.nier.
Bagdat, the Spaniard, and I, and our Arabian, who was afoot, walk’d about a Pifto!
Shot before our Horfes. From thence to we met with nothing remarkable
but only that we faw a Lyon and a Lyonefs in the Ad* of Generation Whereupon
our Guide believing we had been afraid, told us, that he had met them oft’n,
but that he never found them do any harm.
; The according to the humour of his Nation, was very referv’d
and contenting himfelf with an Onion, or fome fuch fmall matter at meals, never
made much of his guide; whereas I was mightily in his favour, in regard there was
never a day pafs d wherein he did not receive of me fome good bufmefs or other.
We were not above a Mufquet Shot from when we met with a comely old
man, who came up to me and taking my Horfe by the Bridle; Friend, faid he
come and wa(h thy feat and eat Bread at my Houfe. Thou art a Stranger, and fince
I have met thee upon the Road, never refufe me the favour which I defire of thee.
The Invitation of the old man was fo like the cuftom of the people in ancient times, of
which weread fo many Examples in Scripture, that we could not choofe but eo
along with him to his Houfe where he Feafted us in the beft manner he could
gmng us over and above Barty for our Horfes; and for us he kill’d a Lamb and fome
Hens. He was an Inhabitant of Anna, and liv’d by the River, which we were
oblig d to crofs to wait upon the Govemour for our Paffports, for which we paid two
Pio/im apiece. We (laid at a Houfe near the Gate of the City to buy Provifions
for our fclves anc our Horfes; where the woman of the Houfe having a lovely
fpnghcly Child of nine years of age, I wasfo taken with her humour, that I gave
her two Handkerchiefs of Painted Calicut, which the Child (hewing her Mofher,
aU we could do could not make her take any Money for the Provifions we had agreed
Five hundred paces from the Gate of the City, we met a young man of a good
Family, for he was attended by two Servants, and rode upon an Aft, the hinder
part of which was Painted red. He accofted me in particular, and after fome
Compliments that pafs d, Is ttpojftbk, faid he, that Ifhottld meet a Stranger, and
have nothing totrefenthim mithal ? He would fain have cany’d us to a Houfe in the
Country whither he was going; but feeing we were refolv’d to keep our way, he
would needs give me his Pipe, notwithftanding all the excufes I could make,
and though I told him that 1 never took any Tobacco; fo that I was conftrain’d
to accept of it.
About three Leagues from Anna, we were going to eat among the Ruines of
certain Houles, and had thought to have lain there ’till midnight, when we perceiv’d
two Arabians fent by the Emir, to tell us that he had fome Letters which he would
put mto our own hands to the Bajha of Aleppo, to which purpofe he had order to
bring us back. There was no refufing, fo that at our coming into the City the next
- day ! a ^ the Emir S oin g to the Mofquee, mounted upon a (lately Horfe, and
attended by a great number of people afoot, with every one a great Poniard (luck
m their Girdles. As foon as we faw him we alighted, and (ianding up by the
Houles, we faluted him as he pafs’d by. Seeing our Guide, and threatning to rip
up nis Belly i, Je Dog, faid he, 1 mil give ye your reward, and teach ye to carry
grangers away before I fee them. Carry them, faid he, to the Governours Houfe
till (return from theMofquee. .Returning from the Mofquee, ^nd being feated
maipacious Hail, he fent for us and our Guide, whom he threatned again for
TTfi 1 ? ° Ut ° f the T&Wn without g ivin g him notice. But the Governour
^ tu ^ S excu i e > an d appeas’d the Emir. After that he fent for Coffee for us,
and then caus’d us to open the Budget that we cany’d behind our Horfes, to fee
w et er there were any thing that pleas’d him or no. In my Budget were two
pieces o Calicut exquihtdy painted, for two Coverlets of a Bed v two pieces of
andkerchief of Calicut i two Standifhes beautify’d with Japan Vawifln
wo Damafcene Blades, one inlaid with Gold, the other with Silver. All which
f made m£ give him * In th e Spaniards Budget he found nothing but
a ew o d Clothes: But afterwards being known to have had fome Diamonds about
i ^ French Conful at Aleppo (enfenc’d him to pay me half the charges of What
gave the Emir.
. Prince fatish’d with what he had tak’n, gave order that we (hould be fur-*
m u with all neceffavy Prdvilions for our (elves and our Horfes: but being provided
before,