CARAVAN

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 5

(Pers. carvan, a trader.) A company of merchants, travellers, or pilgrims, who a ociate together in many parts of Asia and Africa, that they may travel with greater security through deserts and other places infested with robbers or exposed to other dangers. The commercial intercourse of Eastern and African nations 106 [s. 210]