It Is The Custom Of This Country, When The Master Of A Family Dies, That The Widow Shall Mourn For Him Publickly Once Every Day, For Four Years; But There Are Women Who Profess The Practice Of Mourning, And Are Hired To Mourn Daily For The Dead.

In returning from Ormus to Kerman, you pass through a fertile plain, but the bread made there cannot be eaten, except by those who are accustomed to it, it is so exceedingly bitter, on account of the water with which it is made.

In this country there are excellent hot baths, which cure many diseases.

[1] Now Tebriz in Corcan. - E.

[2] This must refer to Fars, or Persia proper; as Tebriz is in Persia. - E.

[3] Perhaps Iracagemi? - E.

[4] Perhaps Kerman? - E.

[5] Inexplicably corrupt. - E.

[6] Timochaim and Arboresecco are inexplicable, perhaps from corrupt transcription. But Timochaim appears to nave been Mekran on the coast of the Indian sea, and perhaps reached to the Indus, as observed in a former note; and it may have included Sigistan. - E.

[7] Jasdi is almost certainly Yezd in Fars. Pinkerton considers Chiaman to be Crerina, which is impossible, as that place is afterwards named: Perhaps it may be the province named Timochaim, mentioned in the immediately preceding note. - E.

[8] As the route may be considered as nearly in a straight line south from Yesd, Crerina may possibly be the city of Kerrnan, and the cold elevated plain, a table land between the top of the Ajuduk mountains and a nameless range to the south, towards Gambroon or Ormus.

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