And Through The Deserts Of
His Lordship, There As Men May Find No Towns, There Be Inns
Ordained By Every Journey, To Receive Both Man And Horse, In The
Which They Shall Find Plenty Of Victual, And Of All Things That
They Need For To Go By The Country.
And there is a marvellous custom in that country (but it is
profitable), that if any contrarious thing that
Should be prejudice
or grievance to the emperor in any kind, anon the emperor hath
tidings thereof and full knowledge in a day, though it be three or
four journeys from him or more. For his ambassadors take their
dromedaries or their horses, and they prick in all that ever they
may toward one of the inns. And when they come there, anon they
blow an horn. And anon they of the inn know well enough that there
be tidings to warn the emperor of some rebellion against him. And
then anon they make other men ready, in all haste that they may, to
bear letters, and prick in all that ever they may, till they come
to the other inns with their letters. And then they make fresh men
ready, to prick forth with the letters toward the emperor, while
that the last bringer rest him, and bait his dromedary or his
horse. And so, from inn to inn, till it come to the emperor. And
thus anon hath he hasty tidings of anything that beareth charge, by
his couriers, that run so hastily throughout all the country.
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