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20 all of one stone, seventeen feet long, and was kindly entertained by the Bishop, or Patriarch 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 earavan for Babylon, to his great grief was departed: but, bcing told that it staid at Beershack 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 gonc 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 rebcllcd against the grand Signor, he sent him a ehiaux and janizaries 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, aceompanied by his two sons and 500 horsemen. Hearing this he dismounted consulting with his sons and friends, he and they eoncluded, that it was best for him being an old man