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to (ee if any body heard 'bim, he promifed us a Jarr, which he brought us 
a little whi]e after ; It was fweet and red, and had not fùfficicntly purged ; 
neverthelefs, it was good and delicious ; and fo are their Grapes excellent. 
Here we began to lee (bw'd Lands, and a great many Gardens full of Vines, 
and of all Ibrts ot fruit ; and though it be in Curdifian, yet Sofis alio live Sofis. 
there. 
We parted from Sakva, next day being Tm[daj the ninth of Septem- 
ber^ about two of the Clock in tjie Morning, and about five, we went up 
hill and down hill for a little while. Half an hour after feven, we croffed 
over a Bridge oîfour Arches, under which runs a pretty broad River, but 
(hallow, and it is called Camoutedona. An hour after, we came to big Town, Camcmedona 
called Kenghever, where we lodged in a Kewanjerai. This is a large Town, ^ Ri^'-^r. 
well built and populous; a Rivulet runs by it, which they call the Water of ^'i.^^^^-'^wr. 
Kenghcver. About it are a great many Gardens, full of Fruit-trees of all 
forts, and it muft heretofore have been a coniiderable place, for there are 
.the Walls of a Fortrefs ftill ftanding, almofi: entire ; they are built of Flints 
and other very hard Stones that are both large and thick, and fome Tow- 
ers ftill l'îmain, with lèverai pieces of white Marble-Pillars, of which the 
"Capitals are fb thick, that it's enough for three men to embrace them. A- 
mongft others at à little diftance from a Tower, clofe by this Fort, thêreare 
fbme Port holes for great Guns, and a Gate towards the Countrey, where 
two Pedeftals of M.n ble are ftiU remaining, which formerly carried Pillars, 
and thei'è Pedeftals (which are four or five foot in length,) are placed at three 
or four foot diftance from one another, both upon a very thick Wall of fair 
Stone, v;ith a very lovely wreath on the outfide : So that in all probability 
thefe Pillars fupported fome Pavillion, or Balcony for proipeft, or fome 
thing elle that was very weighty. This Fortrefè is built upon an Eminence, 
which affords a very diftant profpedt, and the Town is the laft place of ^ 
Curdiitan whicb terminates here. Before I leave it for good and all, I muft '^^^ ntmofl 
fay fvômewhat of the People that inhabit it. c°r^/vl °^ 
The Curdi called anciently Carduchi, live in the Summer-time in Huts c^^^f 
made of Canes and Boughs of Trees, and in Winter under Tents: Their ' - 
Countrey is fo mountainous, and fo hard to be pafled, that I do not now 
wonder that the King of Perfm, (every time that he virent to befiege Bagdad^) 
inftead of taking Cannon with him, carried upon Camels metal to caft them, 
obliging every Trooper befides to carry an Ocfue; for it is abfolutely im 
pofliîjle to have Cannon drawn along thele ways. Though thefe Curds lead 
a life much like iho- Arabs ^ neverthelefs, they are more warlike, and make 
very good ufe of Harquebufes ; nay in all places we paft through, there 
were always fome of them who came and cheapened our Arms, thinking 
they had been to be fold: Amongfi others^ one of them once offered me ten 
ylbajfis for my Fire-lock Thefe Curds inftead of Candle, burn onely Oil of 
Napha, which is got in a place not far from Bagdad, 
We parted from Kengbever, the fame day about half an hour after eleven 
at Night, and in a very good Road, marched Northwards. About three a 
Clock in the Morning JVednefday^ the tenth of September, we paft over a 
fair Bridge of fix Arches, called *the Bridge of Schezch-Haii-Km, ïvom û\& Seheich.Hali 
name of a Chm that founded it; the River that runs under it is called the 
Water of Scheicb-Hali-Kan'hndge; for to Bridges they give the Name of the 
Founder, and to the Waters that run under them the Name of the Bridge. 
An hour after, we went by a Village, which we onely fàw by Moon-light, 
but it feemed to me to be big and well built : Having afterwards marched 
through a great Plain for a long while, about (even .of the Clpck in the Mor- 
ning we came to a Town called yîfad Abad. ^fad Ah(f, 
That Town or rather Burroygh is of a vaft extent, and well built : There 
are ftreight large Streets in it, and in the middle of them a running Brook. 
The Entries into all the Houfes are handfbm, though the Doors of many of 
them be but low, and have many Gardens round them. We lodged in the 
Fields without but clofè by the Town, and parted from thence the fame 
day, about ten a Clock at Night,< direfting our way full Eaft. Immediately 
after,in very good way,we went up a hill called Elouendy ( it is fb high that it Eiomnd, 
took 
