the evening, and having passed the stage Khan Bayaz in the night, we came next day to Khan Khosrof Pasha, whence we departed again in the dusk of the evening; and the next day, Wednesday, arrived at Seyyid Ghazi. This place we quitted at the approach of night; and on Thursday, the twenty-fourth of Iloul, came to Eski Shehr, the yellow water-melons of which are famous: they are very sweet; and from their firmness, being hung up, they keep till winter. Here, during Friday, we reposed: and setting forth on the eve of Saturday, arrived the next morning at Yeuz Hok.
Saturday evening we again departed, and arrived next day at Bazojik. It was the second Sunday after the Feast of the Cross. The road from beginning to end of the last day's journey was narrow. On the right of it is a mountain, and a forest; on the left, a river, to look down upon which is frightful.
We set out again in the evening; and on Monday morning arrived at Yengi Shehr. The next station, of Khan Ak Beyik, we entered in the night: and here we parted from the Stamboul Caravan, and slept in the khan. On the morning of Tuesday we left this place; and at noon came to a populous town, called Bazaveng, which lies half-way between Yengi Shehr and Broussa. Here we ate Turkish milk of indescribable lusciousness, and equally delicious bread and melons. Here is a fountain (قصطل) of sweet water, cold to a degree of wonder.
Sect. III.
Broussa.
Now, we entered Broussa on the evening of the aforesaid Tuesday, being the twenty-eighth of the month Iloul. We alighted at the Yengi Khan, among the natives of Aleppo; the meeting with whom gave expansion to our hearts. With them we passed the night: and in the morning of Wednesday, there came to the Khan all the Clergy and all the Archons of Broussa; and they took us to the quarter Kaya Bashi, where their church is, dedicated to Our Lady. This church is as all their churches. They clothed our Lord the Patriarch in the Mantia (Μανδύα)[1] at the end of the street; where the priests and deacons met us with torches and thuribles; and the singers chaunted all the while, till we entered the church. Here was first mentioned the name of the Sovereign; afterwards, that of the Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East; and then followed
- ↑ Μανδύα, the Pallium, or Pall.
