Two Days Afterwards, He Had
Audience Of The Pacha, From Whom He Received Courteous Entertainment,
Receiving Two Phirmauns Of The Same Tenor, One Of Which Was Much More
Ornamentally Written Than The Other, And Intended For Being Shown To The
Grand Signior, If Necessary.
According to his report, the city of Sinan and its neighbourhood will
give vent yearly for a good quantity
Of English cloth, as the weather
there is cold for three quarters of the year; and even while he was
there, though the height of summer, a person might well endure a furred
gown. Besides, there is a court at that place to which belongs forty
or fifty thousand gallant Turks,[294] most of whom wore garments of
high-priced Venetian cloth. Not far from thence there is a leskar, or
camp, of 30,000 soldiers,[295] continually in the field against an Arab
king in the adjoining mountains, not yet conquered; all of which
soldiers are said to wear coats of quilted India chintzes, which are
dear, and of little service to defend them from the cold of that region,
which is there excessive. To this I may add the city or Teyes, near
which there is a leskar of thirty or forty thousand soldiers,
commanded by a German renegado under the pacha of Sinan. That place,
though only about five days journey from Mokha, is very cold, and much
cloth is worn by the people about that place.
[Footnote 294: This is probably a vast exaggeration, though in words at
length in the Pilgrims; and we ought more likely to read four or
five thousand Turks.
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