ANTHONY JENKINS ON ad. 



1558. 



drinke, and tarried there all the next day, making mery 

 with our slaine horses and camels, and then departed 

 from that place, & for feare of meeting with the said 

 theeves againe or such like, we left the high way which 

 went along the said river, and passed through a wildernes A wildernes 

 of sand, and travelled 4 dayes in the same before we °f sande ' 

 came to water : and then came to a wel, the water being- 

 very brackish, and we then as before were in neede of 

 water, and of other victuals, being forced to kill our 

 horses and camels to eate. 



In this wildernes also we had almost fallen into the 

 hands of theeves : for one night being at rest, there 

 came certaine scoutes, and caried away certaine of our 

 men which lay a litle separated from the Caravan, where- 

 with there was a great shoute and crie, and we immediatly 

 laded our camels, and departed being about midnight 

 and very darke, and drove sore till we came to the river 

 Oxus againe, and then we feared nothing being walled 

 with the said river : & whether it was for that we had 

 gotten the water, or for that the same theeves were 

 far from us when the scouts discovered us, we knowe 

 not, but we escaped that danger. 



So upon the 23 day of December wee arrived at Boghar a title 

 the citie of Boghar in the lande of Bactria. This Boghar ofBactna. 

 is situated in the lowest part of all the land, walled about 

 with a high wall of earth, with divers gates into the 

 same : it is divided into 3 partitions, whereof two parts 

 are the kings, and the 3 part is for Marchants and 

 markets, and every science hath their dwelling and 

 market by themselves. The Citie is very great, and 

 the houses for the most part of earth, but there are also 

 many houses, temples and monuments of stone sumptu- 

 ously builded, and gilt, and specially bathstoves so 

 artificially built, that the like thereof is not in the world : 

 the maner whereof is too long to rehearse. There is 

 a little river running through the middest of the said 

 Citie, but the water there of is most unholsome, for 

 it breedeth sometimes in men that drinke thereof, and 



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