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foot was wrapped, and I saw two large white maggots upon 
the nearly healed wound. 
On the llth^ at three a. m. we quitted Guigo, journey- 
ing north upon a very stony road : many shrubs^ however, 
flourish in this country ; wild roses and mulberry-trees, the 
hawthorn, olive-tree, dwarf oak, and others, are watered by 
the current of a meandering rivulet, =^ in the transparent and 
delicious waters of which we found relief from our thirst. 
About two p. M. we arrived at Soforo, a walled town, situ- 
ated in a fine and extensive plain, very stony but fertile ; 
maize and the olive are cultivated in this tract. The ap- 
proach to the town is ornamented by pretty gardens en- 
closed by quickset hedges, and abounding in fruit-trees, 
round which creep in great numbers vines loaded with fine 
grapes. We alighted at a fandac.f I walked through this 
town which is the finest that I had hitherto seen. It con- 
tains a handsome mosque, built of brick and plastered with 
mortar ; two fountains appropriated to the purpose of the 
Mahometan ablutions conduce to its decoration. Two water- 
mills are the most remarkable objects in Soforo. The 
houses are chiefly built of brick and of one story. The 
streets are narrow and dirty, nevertheless the vicinity of 
several brooks which rise in the mountains, and the many 
pretty gardens of the suburbs render this town an agreeable 
abode. A market is held here daily, which attracts many 
strangers, and in which the Jews have shops. Baked meat 
is sold in it, and remarkably fine melons. A clumsy clock 
in the mosque tower excited my surprise. 
In the evening, Moula-Sitec employed a Jew merchant 
to purchase some wax candles for him ; the poor Jew on his 
return was stopped by a sherif, who, detaining him by his 
cloak, demanded one of them. In vain he protested with an 
* The Guigo without doubt, 
t A kind of inn. 
