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66 Travels into the Le van t. Part IL 
l{.!bdars ^^ot proceed againft their Will, though we might have done it. Thçfe men 
uardsofthe are Rahdars, (that's to fay guards of the Road, ) of v^hich there arc many 
oad. in fcvera] places, Cibecially upon the Frontier?, not onely of 7eyjia^ but aUo of 
every Khanlkk or Province to fècure the High-ways ; and for wages rhey'have 
a due of fome Btjlis of every loaded Horfeor Mule. 
They Hop all that are not in Caravan, if they know them nor. And the 
reaion why they llopt us, was becaufe we were not onely a little feparated 
i'rom the Caravan, but that a man who went before us, had .told them, that 
in our^Caravan there weretwounkowr^ Franks .-The Kervan-Balhah^mg infor- 
med that we were ftopt, came and fpoke to them ; but they told him that 
they would not fiitfer us to pafs, becaufe if they did they would lofe their pla- 
ces. We might have eafily forced them, (as I have faid,) but it would not have 
iookr well to have committed violence upon our firft entry into a Countrey ; 
* for at this place begin the Territories of the King of Verfia. At lengrh, (by 
the Council of û\ù Kervan- Bajha) we followed them to their Huts^ where 
fhev fpread a Carpet, on which we late down together like good friends. 
In the mean time they unloaded our goods, and feveral of their men came 
into the place where we were Their Mafter bid us lay by our Swords ; 
which we freely did, and he drew them one after another. We had fbme 
thoughts that he intended to be revenged tor our offering to fire upon him ; 
but after he had look'd upon them,be put them up again : He told us a ÇQconà 
time that his office was to fufterjio man to enter into Ter fia, unlefshe were 
known, leafi: fbme might come and make their efcape there, when they had 
committed Villanies elifewhere ; I made him anfwer that many Franks had 
pafr that way before, without being ftopt, but he allured me of the contrary ; 
and indeed, I believe that the ordinary way is fomewhat more towards the 
North, than Mendeli. In fliorr, he protefted that he would not let us gee, 
unlefs thole of the Caravan would anfwer for us, wherefore we lent our Mu- 
letor with one of the Terfians to the Camp, which was half an hours walk 
from thence. In the mean time, that man complained feveral times to my 
Servant, that we fhould have offered to fire at him, and give him bad lan- 
guage as if he had been a Rogue : Neverthclels,he civilly ordered our Dinner 
to be brought which confified of a great Bowl full of Bread ; two Bowls of 
fower Milk, two plates of new made Butter ; and a wooden Difii wherein 
there were about two Eggs prepared with a failce, vvhich I think can hardly 
be found in any Book of Cookery ; and that was for about a dozen of men. 
We fed a little, and drank Water in wooden Cups. Then the man mult 
needs fee our Trunks, he handled the watches of Monjieur Jacob one after 
another ; I opened alfo my Se^et ; but finding that he had a mind to fee all 
things onely out of Curiofity, and to make Tamafcha as he called it, I told 
him that he had no right of demanding cuftom, nor by confequence of view- 
ing our goods, that it required much time to do thern up again, and that 
therefore he might undoe what he thought fit, and do them up again him- 
lèlf ; but that if any thing were loft, he fhouM be made accountable for it, 
and that made him fuffer me to make all fail again. Afterwards the man 
whom vt^e fent with our Mule tor arrived, and brought him a Paper ITgned 
by feveral of our Caravan, who vouched for us, and who indeed threarned, 
that if the leaft wrong were done unto us, they would complain of it, and 
that if we went and complained to the Chan, 4t would certainly bring them 
into trouble. Immediately they difmilFed us, and we turned to the 
Caravan. 
ijterkjh It lay at a place called I[terkil, which is a little plain amongfl hills, through" 
Rpgoma. which runs the River Rogoura, perhaps a Word corrupted from Roudhhouna, 
Houdhlmina, vvhich fignifies a River that runs ; tor the Verfians give that Name ro all great 
Rivers It is hard to defcribe that Countrey well, if one be not perfeft in 
the Language, efpecially becaufe of the Rivers. Near ro us there were fîx 
or leven Huts of Ltcurdi or Curds, who fo foon as we had pitched our Tents, 
came and Iquatted down all round under them, like ruifical Clowns that 
had never fèen any thing, which made a Janijjary that was with us fiark 
nwd ; fbr though he bid them be gone, they would not fiir, but laughed 
at him j and this vexed him the more, to fee that in that Countrey he had 
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