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.
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