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JUNE, 1907.) THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL).
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5th July 1669. Att 7 Clock at night we imbarqued in a felu ke we hyred for Joppa, wheere we arrived the 6 day at 3 Clock in ye afternoone. In yo way, we see Cesaris Phillippi, but durst not goe ashore for yo Arrabbs we are theire & take Copher100 3 Dollers pr man.
In Joppa is a ruined castle & Symon the tanners how39, now a place w beere wyne is sold. Theires a great trade theire, it beinge the port for Jerusalem. Much Cake sope, ffallaloes & Cotten Lynnen we & blew is sold theire Cheap.3
7th July 1669. We departed from Joppa to Ramah in yo Phillistines Contrey, wch is 10 Miles from Joppa, & all ye way throw a greate plaine & fertile Contrey. In ye way was 100 tents of Arrabbs together wth theire fammilies, Cattle & Cammells. When they haue eaten that part bare, they remoue further in to fresh pasture.
We arrived at Ramah at 9 in ye morninge, & at 10 Clock at night we mounted horss for Jorusalem. In Ramah is much tobacco planted, '& its a great towne, & hath faire Moskeys in it. Theirs a Convent wol does receive all ffranks weh belongs to Jerusalem, wheere we arrived the gth July 1669 at 7 Clock in the Morninge, spending that day in the Ceremoneys of the Convent, Cald Lyon Convent, The Padrey Guardian washinge of feete.& nfter wth Candles in of hands, went in pension (procession) about yo howse and church in it, wheere we ended ye day with devotion. Our entrance was at y gate cald ye gate of Damaskus. We weere reced by yo Drugga. man [Dragoman) & yo Caddies (cadi, qadi) officer ; the former conducted vs to yo Convent, woh is wheere was yo howse of St John yo Evangelist,
9. Beinge fryday, in the morninge we weere accompaned out Towne wth fratre Thomas throw yo gate of Bethlem. On y west side with yo towne is a small castle built by yo Pesans? in woh is guarde of Turks solliers. Passing southward, neare yo Citty wall, is yo Valley of Goehennon, & in yo Midle theire of, theire seemes to have beene s pooll, woh is gd to be that wheere Barsheba (Bathsheba] was seene by David bathing bir selfe, & dwelt by it, beinge vnder & neare Mount Zyon, wbeere was ye pallas of king David & Over looks y Pooll. A little further is the potters feild bought wth ye 30 på silver Judas returned. On wch small peece ground is a building levells it wth adioyneing rock. At ye top of wh rouk are 3 holes, throw wch are let downe the bodies of y deade into a valt about 20 yds deepe, wh earth is of such nature, it consumes the flesh in 24 howers after put in.
(To be continued.)
1 Khasarah, a premium for defence, a tax for safe passage. Compare Maundrell, A Journey from Aloppo to Jerusalem, p. 4, "Caphars are certain duties which travellers are obliged to pay at several passes upon the rond, to officers who attend in their appointed stations to receive them."
1 Seo Pococke, Travels in the East, p. 407.
* Mr. Ferguson suggests that this word may be the Spanish follados, an ancient kind of trousers, very bagay, and that possibly the kind worn by Arabs is intended. On the other hand, "Falladoes," may be the Turkish ferāje, a cloak worn out of doors by women. See Pooocke, Travels in the East, p. 407.
• See Pococke, Travels in the East, p. 415. * See Pocooke, Travels in the East, pp. 411, 413, 415.
Compare Pooooke, Travels in the Rast, p. 414," it is the office of one of the lay-brothers to take care of them European pilgrims) ... the lay-brother. Roos always out with them."
1 Compare Pooooke, Travels in the East, P. 412, "The castle, which is now onlled the tower of David ... is said to have been built by the Pisans in the time of the holy war." See also Maundrell, A Journey from Aloppo to Jerusalem, p. 35.
See Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 136.
• Compare Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 139,"One moiety of it (the Potters Field] is taken up by square fabrio twelve yards high, built for a charnel house. The corpses are lot down into it from tho bop, there being five holes left open for that purpose. Looking down through these holes, we could see many bodies onder wweral degrees of doony from which it may be conjectured, that this grave does not make that quick diopatoh with the corpos committed to it which is commonly reported. See also Pooooke, Travels in the East, p. 124
