At This Place My Persian Friend, As A Proof Of His Unfeigned Friendship, Offered To Give Me In Marriage His Niece Named _Samis_, Which In Their Language Signifies The Sun, Which Name She Well Deserved For Her Singular Beauty.

As we could not travel any farther by reason of the wars, we returned to the city of Eri, where he entertained me most honourably in his house, and showing me his niece desired that she might immediately become my wife.

Being otherwise minded, yet not willing that I should appear to despise so friendly an offer, I thanked him for his goodness, yet begged the match might be delayed to a more convenient time. Departing soon afterwards from Eri, we came in eight days journey to _Ormuz_, where we took shipping for India.

[Footnote 58: Of Squilaz and Saint Bragant it is impossible to make any thing, even by conjecture - E.]

SECTION VII.

_Observations of the Author on various parts of India._

We arrived in India at a certain port named _Cheo_[59], past which flows the great river Indus, not far from the city of _Cambay_. It is situated[60] three miles within the land, so that brigantines and foists can have no access to it except when the tide rises higher than ordinary, when it sometimes overflows the land for the space of four miles. At this place the tides increase differently from what they do with us, as they increase with the wane of the moon, whereas with us while the moon waxes towards full.

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