They Were Farther Informed, That All The Country Of Mekran
Paid Tribute Yearly To The King Of Persia.
When informed of our purpose
to land the ambassador, they told us that, by means of Melik Mirza,
his lordship might have a safe conveyance in nine days to Kermshir, in
the province of Kerman; and from thence might travel in eleven days
more to Ispahan in Persia.
[Footnote 112: Tize is laid down upon this part of the Persian coast, in
lat 25 deg. 25' N. and long. 60 deg. 80' E. from Greenwich: Perhaps the Tesseque
of the text. - E.]
We then sailed along the coast, and on the 11th of the month we sent our
boat ashore with Sir Thomas Powell, accompanied as before, to make
farther enquiries, and to endeavour to hire a pilot to direct our course
for Guadal, as we were unacquainted with the coast. They came to a place
called Pesseque, about a day's journey from Tesseque, where they had
similar accounts with the former, all commending the port of Guadal as
the best place at which the ambassador could land. Wherefore, being
unable to procure a pilot, we resolved, with God's blessing, to sail to
that place with all the speed we could. On the 13th, while on our way,
we espied coming towards us from the eastwards, two great boats, called
teradas, which were sailing along shore for Ormus. Whereupon, that we
might procure a pilot from them, we manned our skiff sufficiently to
bring them by force to our ship, if entreaties were unavailing, yet
without meaning to offer them the smallest injury, or even to send them
away dissatisfied.
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