After The Death Of Maffeo, I Experienced Great Difficulty To Procure Another Stable For Myself, That I Might Get Away From The Morbid Air Of That In Which My Poor Servant Died.

In this extremity we were utterly abandoned, except by one old man, who understood a little of our language, and who served us with much affection.

We remained at this place till the 21st October, and on the evening before our intended departure, the Persian ambassador, who had accompanied the patriarch, came to Tiflis. He complained grievously of having been plundered, through the fault of the patriarch, with whom he had travelled to _Lavogasia_, where he had left him, and was now on his road to complain to Uzun-Hassan. We agreed to travel in company from Tiflis, a city belonging to Pancratis[1]. From thence in two days we entered the territories of Uzun-Hassan, as we took the road towards Shamaki, or Cyropolis, which is situated in a fertile and pleasant country. On the 26th of October we separated, as the Persian went to Uzun- Hassan at Tauris, and I took the road for the dominions of _Sivanse_, in which Shamaki stands; but by means of the Persian ambassador I procurred a _molah_, or Mahometan priest, to guide me on the road to Shamaki. This country is greatly more beautiful and more fertile than the dominions of Uzun-Hassan, and is ruled over by _Sivanse_, king of Media[2]. Of this country Shamaki is the capital, at which place I arrived on the 1st November 1474.

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