I Here Again Met The Persian Ambassador, Who, After Some Compliments, Repenting That He Had Refused My Sword, And Having A Liking To It, Now Asked It From Me, Saying, That Such Liberty Among Friends Was Reckoned Good Manners In His Country.

We continued to remove four or five c. every other day, and came on the 7th to the goodly river Shind.

The 18th, the king passed through between two mountains, the road having been cut through the woods, but with so much trouble and difficulty, and so much encumbrance to the baggage, that it was left behind, without provisions for man and beast. This day likewise I lost my tents and baggage, but found them again at midnight, having been obliged till then to take up my lodging under a tree. This part of the country is much infested by thieves, and is hardly under obedience to government, except so far as it is kept under by force. It belongs to a rajah, who has no desire to see the king. The exactor complained, and some few of the people that fled being taken, were chained by the neck and brought before the king, all the rest having fled into the mountains. At night the king caused the town near which he was encamped to be set on fire, appointing a new governor, with orders to re-build and new-people the town, and to reduce the district under more regular government and better civilization. He left a party of horse with the new governor, to enable him to perform this service.

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