Finding The Aga Would Not
Deliver The Boy, I Gave Him The Kiahya's Letter, Desiring Him To Be
Given Up If Not Turned; So He Was Refused.
This city stands in a valley
under very high hills, on the top of one of which is a fair strong
castle.
All kinds of provisions are here plentiful and cheap, and in the
neighbourhood some indigo is made, but I could not learn what quantity
or quality. This city is very populous, as indeed are all the cities and
districts we passed through.
[Footnote 333: It should rather be Kahwah house, signifying a house
where they sell coffee. - Astl. I. 373. c.]
The 1st March we came to Eufras, sixteen miles through a mountainous
and stony country. This is a small town on the side of a hill, to which
many people resort from afar about the 5th of January, where they do
some foolish ceremonies at the grave of one of their saints who is
buried here, after which they all go on pilgrimage to Mecca. The
governor of this town, though a Turk, used me very civilly on my going
up to Zenan; and, on the present occasion, sent a person six miles to
meet us at a place where two roads meet, to bring us to this town, where
he used us kindly. The 2d we lodged at a sensor called Assambine,
eleven miles, where were only a few poor cottages. The 3d to another
sensor called Accomoth, in a barren common, with a few cottages,
thirteen miles.
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