The. P e r s î a n Travels Book V. 



The loth of March, by ten in the morning, I came to an Inn which was calPd 

 Movjhel^, which is a-lone-Houfe at the foot of a Rock. There is a Spring about 

 five hunder'd paces from it, but the water is hot, and has a fulphury taft ; fb that 

 theCattel will hardly drink it. Therefore you muft go to a Cittern about two 

 Mufquet-fhot from the Inn, where th-ére is one newly fet up, infread of another 

 that was there before, into which a Jew once chanc'd to fall in, and was therefore 

 broken by the fuperftitious Mahometans. 



Three quarters of a league from Moujheix, are two roads that lead to Lar i the 

 one for the Camels, the other for the Horfes and Mules. The firft is the long- 

 eft by three days journey, and is call'd the Road of the Defert ; for after you 

 have paft a great Town inhabited only by Ca m eT- Matters, where you lye the firft 

 night, between that and Lar, you fhall meet with nothing of Houfes but only 

 Herdfinens Tents, that feed fometimes in one place, fometimes in another. Upon 

 the Camels Road there are another fort of Fowl like the great Partridges in their 

 bodies, but their legs and feet referable thofe of wild Ducks. The Camels take 

 this Road, becaufe it is impoffibie for them to pafs the Mountain farron, over 

 which the Horfes and Mules are hardly able to travel. 



I fet out from Movjhsi^thc 21th of March, at two in the morning, and having 

 travell'd till eight through a plain, but ftony Countrey, I came to the little City of 

 Jarron, which is rather to be call'd a Forreft of Palm-trees that bear excellent 

 Dates. I lodg'd in an Inn five hunder'd paces from the City, and ftaid there two 

 days. 



The x^th, fetting out prefently after midnight, I travell'd a good hour, and then 

 1 began to mount the fteep Mountain of "jarron, which is very high, and very long j 

 but the deicent is the molt dangerous that ever I faw in all my Travels^and befides 

 that, the Moon did not thine. Being at the top, after you havedefcended three or 

 four hunder'd paces, you meet with a Bridg of one Arch, that reaches from one 

 Mountain to another 5 a bold piece of Architecture, not enough to be admir'd, 

 being rais'd at the charges of Imm-Kjtili-Kan for the benefit of Travellers. Be- 

 ing come to the bottom of this, you muft pals two others as fteep in their afcent 

 as in the defcent; upon the top of one of which ftands a Cittern, which, though 

 it be very large, is generally emptied by the end of the Summer. Upon thefè 

 Mountains there is fuch an infinite quantity of Partridg, that a man cannot mifs 

 that will but moot. By eight in the Morning I came to an Inn which is call'd 

 Shako,!, which is a-Ione Houle in a Defert Countrey, but ftor'd with bitter Almond- 

 trees, and Turpentine-trees. Approaching neer to the Inn, you meet with two 

 or three Citterns, which are a great comfort to Travellers, water being very 

 fcarce upon this Road. There are at Shdkal nine or ten Radars for the Guard of 

 the Road, who are alfo Matters of the Inn : So foon as you are alighted, they ask 

 you if you will eat any Kid, being fure of their blow, and having no more to do 

 but to go to the Mountain and fetch one, where they (warm. There are ftore of 

 Partridges, which are almoft as big as Pullets j of which you may eafily kill as 

 many as you pleafe. 



The 2ph I travell'd five hours, from morning till noon. An hour after I took 

 Horfè, I met with a Mountain, the defcent whereof was very fteep. They call it 

 the Mountain of Hxjhcn, at the foot whereof is a Fountain of excellent water. 

 A good league farther you meet with a fair Inn call'd Monez,eré, in the midft of a 

 pleafant Grove, where there is an excellent Spring of water ; but becaufe there 

 is no food to be had, you muft go as far as Betddombé, a Village feated in a plain. 

 A quarter of a league on this fide, upon the top of a Mountain, appears the ruins 

 of an old Cattle -, the Village it felf being furrounded with Palm-trees. The Inn 

 is a good one, provided with a very good Ciftern. 



The 25x6 I travell'd through a plain for three hours, and ftopt at Banarou, a lit- 

 tle City well built, at the foot of a high Mountain 5 upon which appears the re- 

 mains of a large Caftle. Benarou is the Frontier Town of the Province of Fars, 

 bordering upon the Province of Lor. 



The -2.6th I departed an hour after midnight, and travell'd till nine in the morn- 

 ing, partly through the Plain, and partly through the Mountains, where I faw an 

 old Tower for the guard of the Road. I. ftaid at Bihry, a little City feated upon a 

 plain, that borders upon a high Mountain. The Inn is new, and very magnifi- 

 cently 



