I was glad enough of this News, and it made me very easy in the Preparations we made for our setting out: And, the first Thing we did, was, to get us more Cloaths, having some made of one Fashion, some of another; but, my Friend and I, who resolv'd to keep together, made us Cloaths after the Fashion of the _Armenian_ Merchants, whose Country we pretended to travel through. In the mean Time, five of our Men dress'd like Merchants; and, laying out their Money in Raw Silk, and Wrought Silks, and other Goods of the Country, proper for _Europe_, (in which they were directed by an _English_ Merchant there) resolv'd to take the usual Rout, and travel by the Caravans from _Babylon_ to _Alleppo_, and so to _Scanderoon_, and we staid and saw them and their Bales go off in Boats for a great Town on the _Euphrates_, where the Caravans begin to take up the Passengers; the other six divided themselves, one Half of them went for _Agra_, the Country of the Great Mogul, resolving to go down the River _Hoogly_ to _Bengal_; but whither they went afterward or what Course they took, I never knew, neither whether they really went at all or not. The other three went by Sea, in a _Persian_ Vessel, back from the Red Sea to the Gulf of _Mocca_, and I heard of them all three at _Marseilles_; but whither they went afterwards I never knew, nor could I come to speak with them even there. As for me and my Friend, we first laid out all the Silver we had in _European_ Ware, such as we knew would vend at _Ispahan_, which we carry'd upon twelve Camels; and hiring some Servants, as well for our Guide as our Guard, we set out. The Servants we hir'd were a Kind of _Arab_, but rather looking like the Great Mogul's people, than real _Arabians_; and when we came into _Persia_, we found they were look'd upon as no better than Dogs, and were not only used ill, but that we were used ill for their Sakes; and after we were come three Days into the _Persian_ Dominions, we found ourselves oblig'd to part with them; so we gave them three Dollars a Man to go back again. They understood their Business very well, and knew well enough what was the Reason of it, though we did not. However, we found we had committed a great Mistake in it; for we perceiv'd that they were so exasperated at being turn'd off, that they vowed to be revenged; and, indeed, they had their Revenge to the Full; for the same Day, at Night, they return'd in the Dark, and set eleven Houses on Fire in the Town where we quartered; which, by the Way, had gone near to have cost me my Life, and would certainly have done so, if in the Hurry I had not seiz'd one of the Incendiaries and deliver'd him up to them.