# The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch/Volume 2

The
Travels of Macarius,
Patriarch of Antioch:
Written
by his Attendant Archdeacon, Paul of Aleppo,
in Arabic.
Volume II.
Translated
by F. C. Belfour, A.M. Oxon. M.R.A.S.
LL.D. of the Greek University of Corfu,
&c. &c. &c.
London:
printed for the Oriental Translation Fund
of Great-Britain and Ireland;
and sold by by A. J. Valpy, Red-Lion Court.
M DCCC XXXVI.
Preface.
The Arabic Manuscript of the Travels performed by His Holiness Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, and composed by his attendant son and Archdeacon, Paul of Aleppo, was selected for translation from a Collection of Manuscripts in the possession of the late Frederick Earl of Guilford, purchased during a tour made by his Lordship in the Levant. The merit of the Selection is due to Ibrahim Salamé, His Britannic Majesty's Oriental Interpreter, who, as early as the year 1819, commenced an English Version of the work; not, however, on the plan usually followed in Translations, and faithfully adhered to in the present performance, namely, that of pursuing the original thread of the writer; but, by a peculiar method of marking out a certain portion of the matter to form a text, and throwing aside the remainder for digestion into notes. In this manner Mr. Salamé prosecuted his labours, amounting to the translation of about one half of the First Volume, until 1824, when Lord Guilford was pleased to transfer the work into my hands: and it is now, under the auspices and at the expense of the Oriental Translation Fund, presented to the Public in these Volumes, containing a complete and faithful Version of the Travels from the commencement, with the omission only of some uninteresting and tedious repetitions of the Greek-Church Ceremonies. As a record of the early struggles of the Muscovites for empire against their natural enemies the Poles, so steadily and triumphantly maintained by the Czar Alexius, whose sword of conquest is still wielded by his successors to the present time, the writings of the Archdeacon will be found to be of considerable value: nor, as far as I have been able to discover, is there any document extant of equally curious authenticity, as regarding the distinctive policy and prescriptive maxims of that Colossus of Modern ​History, the Russian Government. Of inferior, but valuable importance, are the descriptions of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Turkey, and the recorded transactions of their rulers, during a period of events, of which but very barren accounts are elsewhere to be met with. The author, therefore, of this Translation entertains a fair hope, that his time will appear to have been well employed on its difficult and protracted performance, and that a part of the subscriptions to the Oriental Fund has been most usefully expended on its publication.
Index to Part V.
Book IX. Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Sect. XII.
Book X. Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Sect. XII.
Index to Part VI.
Book XI. Moscow.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Sect. XII.
Sect. XIII.
Sect. XIV.
Sect. XV.
Sect. XVI.
Book XII. Novogorod.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Index to Part VII.
Book XIII. Novogorod.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Sect. XII.
Sect. XIII.
Sect. XIV.
Sect. XV.
Book XIV. Moscow, and the Cossack Country.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Sect. XII.
Index to Part VIII.
Book XV. Moldavia and Wallachia.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Sect. XI.
Book XVI. Wallachia.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Index to Part IX.
Book XVII. Black Sea.—Anatolia.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.
Sect. X.
Book XVIII. Syria.
Sect. I.
Sect. II.
Sect. III.
Sect. IV.
Sect. V.
Sect. VI.
Sect. VII.
Sect. VIII.
Sect. IX.