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This City Of Mecca Is Assuredly Cursed Of God, For It Is Situated In A Most Barren Spot, Destitute Of All Manner Of Fruit Or Corn, And So Burnt Up With Drought, That You Cannot Have As Much Water For Twelve Pence As Will Satisfy One Person For A Whole Day.

Most part of their provisions are brought from Cairo in Egypt, by the Red Sea, or _Mare Erythreum_ of the ancients, and is landed at the port of _Gida_, Joddah or Jiddah, which is about forty miles from Mecca.

The rest of their provisions are brought from the _Happy Arabia_, or _Arabia Felix_, so named from its fruitfulness in comparison with the other two divisions, called _Petrea_ and _Deserta_, or the Stoney and Desert Arabias. They also get much corn from Ethiopia. At Mecca we found a prodigious multitude of strangers who were _peregrines_ or pilgrims; some from Syria, others from Persia, and others from both the Indies, that is, from India on this side the river Ganges, and also from the farther India beyond that river. During my stay of twenty days at Mecca, I saw a most prodigious number and variety of people, infinitely beyond what I had ever before seen. This vast concourse of strangers of many nations and countries resort thither from various causes, but chiefly for trade, and to obtain pardon of their sins by discharging a vow of pilgrimage.

From India, both on this side and beyond the Ganges, they bring for sale precious stones pearls and spices; and especially from that city of the greater India, which is named _Bangella_[42] they bring much _gossampyne_ cloth[43] and silk.

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