We Remained At
This City For Fourteen Days, Partly To Procure Company For Our Farther
Journey, And Partly For Refreshment After The Fatigues And Heats Of Our
Late Journey, Especially On Account Of John Crowther, Who Was So Weak
That He At One Time Doubted Being Able To Proceed Any Farther.
We joined ourselves to three Armenians and a dozen Persian merchants,
along with whom we left the city of Candahar on the 23d July, and went
ten c. to a village called Seriabe.[153] The 24th we came in twelve c.
to Deabage, a small dea or village.
The 25th in eight c. to
Cashecunna, a small castle in which the Mogul has a garrison, being
the utmost boundary of his dominions westwards, and confining with
Persia. The 26th we travelled seventeen c. and lodged in the open fields
by the side of a river. The 27th, after four c. we came to a castle
called Greece, the first belonging to the king of Persia. Here we
delivered to the governor the letter we had got from the Persian
ambassador at Lahore, and presented him a mirror and three knives. He
would take nothing for our camels, while the others had to pay five
abacees for each camel. He promised to give us a safe conduct under an
escort of horse to the next governor, but we saw none; neither were we
sorry for the omission, for he was little better than a rebel, and all
his people were thieves.
[Footnote 153: We here lose the almost infallible guide of Arrowsmith's
excellent map of Hindoostan, and are reduced to much inferior helps in
following the route through Persia. - E.]
The 28th we departed at night, going two parasangs, and lodged at a
dea or village called Malgee. A farcing or parasang is equal to
two Indian cosses and a half.[154] The 29th we went ten p. and lodged in
the open fields, where we could get nothing but water. The 30th we went
five p. to a small castle named Gazikhan. The 31st other five p. to an
old ruined fort, where we could get nothing but water, and that was
stinking. The 1st August we proceeded other five p. to an old fort
called Dilaram, where we paid an abacee and a half for each camel.
We staid here one day to rest our cattle, which was termed making
mochoane; and on the 3d we went seven p. to an old castle called
Bacon. The 4th four p. and lodged in the open fields, where we found
nothing but water. The 5th four p. and the 6th five p. to Farra.[155]
[Footnote 154: In a side-note, Purchas says a parasang consists of sixty
furlongs. This is a most egregious error, as the parasang or farsang is
exactly equal to 2.78 English miles, or twenty-two two-5ths
furlongs. - E.]
[Footnote 155: Farra, the capital of a district of the same name in the
north of Segistan, is in lat 33 deg.
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