The 23d, After Travelling Seven P. I Lay Under A Rock.
The 24th
I came to Mando, eight p. a town belonging to the Turks.
The 25th,
eight p. to Emomester. The 26th, eight p. to Boroh, passed over a
river in a boat, and came that night to Bagdat. I was here strictly
examined and searched for letters, which I hid under my saddle; but
observing one trying there also, I gave him a sign, on which he
desisted, and followed me to my lodging for his expected reward. I fared
better than an old Spaniard, only a fortnight before, who was imprisoned
in chains in the castle, and his letters read by a Maltese renegado. I
found here a Portuguese, who had arrived from Ormus only two days before
me. The pacha made us wait here twenty days for a sabandar of his.
The 16th of January, 1616, we passed the river Tigris, and lay on the
skirt of the desert. The 17th we travelled five agatzas, being leagues
or parasangs. The 18th we came to the Euphrates at Tulquy, where
merchandize disembarked for Bagdat, after paying a duty of five per
cent. passes to the Tigris, and thence to the Persian gulf. After a
tedious journey, partly by the river Euphrates, and partly through the
desert, and then by sea, we arrived at Marseilles, in France, on the
15th April, and on the 10th May at Dover.
SECTION IV.
Voyage of Captain Walter Peyton to India, in 1615.[161]
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