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Travel's into PERSIA. 309
" , - Chap. IX,
CHAP. IX.
We go up in the Spring with our NeiV Agent to Ispahaun : Ttbo
Irissi Greyhounds Jent for a (prefent to the Emperor : We ka've
the Agent there, and return in the Fall.
WE setouttheLastof April, and reached hhor the 8th of May, Thehiflyj^
which City was vehemently warm ; through which Intern- ™ova] oi die
perance, whatever wc eat, turned intoCholer; for the Air being cfufcof the
Hot and Dry, in respecl: of that we left at Gombroon, rendred the Sickiinessos
Bi' i thicker and iharper, whereby most of us fell Tick of Cholera t'oUoweJ''
Mirbus ', and Three or our Company were taken from their Horses,
not being able to sit them, and carried on Indian Litters: Others
in Kedgways, or Wooden-Houses, one on each side of a Came!, tied
like Panniers; by which Conveyance we carried two Irijh Buck-
hounds for Pre'sents to the Emperor, a Dog and a Bitch, as large as
ever I saw; but they being cramped by this Contrivance, we were
persuaded to let them loose, after we had conquered the Soultry
Sandy Ways; but then it was as irksome to them to foot it over the
Rocks and Stony Paths; for this, the Company had provided Shooes
for them, which they found more troublesome than is reported of
the Jackanapes's caught by such Apimness; so that at lail they were
left to their Liberty: These are such Carriages as their Women tra-
vel in, and those Passengers that wander the Descrts of Arabia,
------Queis tentant & arantes arenas
Littoris Ajsyrii viatores.------—
Several new Caravans on this Road have been lately overturn'd by
Earthquakes, and all along they cry for Rain, both to fill their Wa-
ter-ssores, and to bedew the Earth,- which is most rmserably parch-
ed till we come to Bemru', in whose Plain, Wheat and Barley are
newly mow'd; but the Oyl-Seed for Lamps were standing. In the
Thickets aiong the Brooks sides grew Bitter-Sweet, and among the
Corn such Weeds as cli03k ours in England.
Cbawtaik is become famous, not only for its new ana1 spacious Cara- a notable
van, but sor an Exploit lately committed on the Rbadars or Watch Robbery at
by half a do2en Highwaymen , who had certain Intelligence of a chxs9t*xk-
Prize of some Merchants having a great Charge of Money : Where-
sore they set upon the Rbadars as they were on Duty in the Caravan
Gate, and beheaded their Captain, and the CXravandar, or Warden
of the Caravan Seratv, and aslauhed the rest unawares, ssaying Eight
more outright, but promised Mercy to the rest if they did notresist;
Four more were wounded in making their Escapc, and died of their
Wounds, before they could gain Gerom.
Thus having secured their Prey, they carried it off" in the sight of
Four hundred Men, faint-hearted and timerous Companions, only
one Armenian discharging a Gun; not one else, cither Merchants or
Cowardly
" , - Chap. IX,
CHAP. IX.
We go up in the Spring with our NeiV Agent to Ispahaun : Ttbo
Irissi Greyhounds Jent for a (prefent to the Emperor : We ka've
the Agent there, and return in the Fall.
WE setouttheLastof April, and reached hhor the 8th of May, Thehiflyj^
which City was vehemently warm ; through which Intern- ™ova] oi die
perance, whatever wc eat, turned intoCholer; for the Air being cfufcof the
Hot and Dry, in respecl: of that we left at Gombroon, rendred the Sickiinessos
Bi' i thicker and iharper, whereby most of us fell Tick of Cholera t'oUoweJ''
Mirbus ', and Three or our Company were taken from their Horses,
not being able to sit them, and carried on Indian Litters: Others
in Kedgways, or Wooden-Houses, one on each side of a Came!, tied
like Panniers; by which Conveyance we carried two Irijh Buck-
hounds for Pre'sents to the Emperor, a Dog and a Bitch, as large as
ever I saw; but they being cramped by this Contrivance, we were
persuaded to let them loose, after we had conquered the Soultry
Sandy Ways; but then it was as irksome to them to foot it over the
Rocks and Stony Paths; for this, the Company had provided Shooes
for them, which they found more troublesome than is reported of
the Jackanapes's caught by such Apimness; so that at lail they were
left to their Liberty: These are such Carriages as their Women tra-
vel in, and those Passengers that wander the Descrts of Arabia,
------Queis tentant & arantes arenas
Littoris Ajsyrii viatores.------—
Several new Caravans on this Road have been lately overturn'd by
Earthquakes, and all along they cry for Rain, both to fill their Wa-
ter-ssores, and to bedew the Earth,- which is most rmserably parch-
ed till we come to Bemru', in whose Plain, Wheat and Barley are
newly mow'd; but the Oyl-Seed for Lamps were standing. In the
Thickets aiong the Brooks sides grew Bitter-Sweet, and among the
Corn such Weeds as cli03k ours in England.
Cbawtaik is become famous, not only for its new ana1 spacious Cara- a notable
van, but sor an Exploit lately committed on the Rbadars or Watch Robbery at
by half a do2en Highwaymen , who had certain Intelligence of a chxs9t*xk-
Prize of some Merchants having a great Charge of Money : Where-
sore they set upon the Rbadars as they were on Duty in the Caravan
Gate, and beheaded their Captain, and the CXravandar, or Warden
of the Caravan Seratv, and aslauhed the rest unawares, ssaying Eight
more outright, but promised Mercy to the rest if they did notresist;
Four more were wounded in making their Escapc, and died of their
Wounds, before they could gain Gerom.
Thus having secured their Prey, they carried it off" in the sight of
Four hundred Men, faint-hearted and timerous Companions, only
one Armenian discharging a Gun; not one else, cither Merchants or
Cowardly