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all of one stone, seventeen feet long, and was kindly entertained by the Bishop, or Patriarch at Edea, and the Amaronites, or Nazaritans, of the other villages. Returning to Tripoli he set out with a caravan of Turks for Aleppo, but before his arrival there, the caravan for Babylon, to his great grief was departed : but, being told that it staid at Beershaek on Euphrates, on account of some Arabs who waylaid them in the desarts, he hired a jannizary and three soldiers to overtake them. But though they had stayed they were gone three days before he got there. Beershack is by some supposed to be Padenarium. To Aleppo, therefore, he was forced to return. While he was there, the Bashaw, having the year before rebelled against the grand Signor, ho sent him a chiaux and janizaries in an embass, proffering, that if he would acknowledge his rebellion, and for that treason send Aehmet his head, his eldest son should inherit his possessions and Bashawship; otherwise the Sultan would come in person and utterly eraze him and all his from the face of the earth. The messengers met the Bashaw on horseback, accompanied by bis two sons and 500 horsemen. Hearing this he dismounted consulting with bis sons and friends, be and they concluded, that it was best for him being an old man
