1 him a great deal of good, and I afterwards effected the < are of
2 his original complaint.
3 Tlie aforesaid Father Tomaso (a Piedmontese, I believe) is
4 the same individual who created n great sensation in Flu rope,
5 some years ago, By his sudden disappearance from Ills monastery,
6 where it was supposed he was murdered by the Jews, on which
7 occasion some hundreds were massacred at Damascus.
8 According to the annual custom, there came from Conetanti-
9 nophy the Surrn-Kmini (leader of the pilgrims), with thousands
10 of Musselm.uis, who united themselves at Damascus with tin.
11 pilgrims coming from Bagdad and Persia. At the expiration
12 of the Ramazan (Lent), the Pasha of Damascus set off for the
13 desert, where a great fair is held at an insignificant fortress
14 (Muzerib), at which a large quantity of articles are sold and
15 purchased, and whither also the Arab chiefs, of different tribes,
16 from the desert, bring their goods, principally horses, for sale.
17 At that time, the Pasha arid the Surra-linrini pay them money,
18 and distribute state dresses among them, for which they under¬
19 take to provide the pilgrims, going to anti coming from Mecca,
20 with the required number of camels, without which the rood
21 through the desert would be impracticable.
22 I accompanied the Pasha both going and returning. On my
23 arrival in Damascus, T found a medical man, Mr. II. i. De
24 Turck, now at Ghent, who was come from Paris, where he had
25 studied medicine, and the Arabic language. Shortly alter,
26 I received a letter from Bagdad, from Mr. Anion Swoboda,
27 a. native of Hungary, who had a warehouse there for Bohemian
28 glass, under the firm of Ign. Za\m and Company, of Pcstli
29 and Aleppo; - it was in the latter place that I made his ac¬
30 quaintance.
31 Hu informed me in that I t ter, that Poliud-Pasha wished
32 engage a European physician and surgeon, and advised me to
33 accept, his offers. I communicated the contents of this letter to
34 Mr. Ilcnri Dc Turck, propping to him to undertake the
35 journey with me, to which he agreed. At that time there were