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Rh their endeavour, that all that they do may be to the glory of God. This being done, they go all to prayers, and you shall never see the chapel without some of them, yea, and two or three times in the night they rise to prayers.

Now we began to think of going to the Dead Sea, and the river Jordan, demanding what our expense would be, the fathers said 25 livres, but we all agreed not to give above twenty. The fathers sent our resolution to the Bassa, and he returned answer that if we would go, we should pay 22 livres, and if we would not, he would have ten livres a man. We thinking ourselves under his command, were not willing to embroil the convent, who bear all damages, as they have done to severals; but thanks to God, none happened in our time. We all resolved to go, except Mr T. one Englishman more, and a Dutchman, not thinking the Bassa had been in earnest: but because they went not, they were forced to pay 10 livres a man. We then came to Bethany, two miles east from Jerusalem, now a small village, where entering into a grot under ground, we saw a tomb, from whence they say our Saviour raised Lazarus from the dead. A little further they shew you