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21 at Eden, 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 Beershack on Euphrates, on account of some Arabs who way-laid them in the desarts, he hired a janizary and three soldiers to overtake them But though they had stayed, they were gone three days before he got there. Beershacke 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, he sent him a chiaux and janizries in an embass, proffering, that if he would acknowledge his rebellion, and for that treason send Achmet 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 his two sons and 500 horsemen. Hearing this he dismounted consulting with his sons and friends, he & they concluded, that it was best for him