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by the water. 
Gun-powder. There is good Gun- powder made in this Town. Their drink is very bad," for 
Bad water at f|^gy ^^^ly ciftern-water, which is very unwholefome, and it is good to 
quench a red hot Iron in it, and ftrain it through a Cloath, becaufe of the Worms 
that breed therein, which being fwallowed down, Aide betwixt the Flefh and the 
Worms bred Skin, as I (hall defcribe when I come to fpeak of Gomrofj, and get not only into the 
in the Body Tic^s^ but alfointo other parts of the Body, nay and into the Tefiidestoo i fothat 
a man will have fometimes f®ur or five of fhem in feveral places i as for our 
parts we drank good water there, becaufe of the Rain that fell the day when we 
arrived. 
It Rained all Wednefday, and next night, which hindered us from fettingouti 
but Ihurfday the fécond of Aprils about five of the Clock in the Morning, we con- 
tinued our Journy, going ftreight Eafl^ in a very good Sandy way betwixt Corn- 
Fields ■■> for the Villages are very thick thereabouts. On that Road I obferved a 
petty pleafant thing, which is pradifed in all that Country as far as Bendar Abajft : 
I faw feveral Peafants running about the Corn-Fields, who raifcd loud (bouts, and 
every now and then clacked whips with all their force » and all this, to drive away 
the Birds which devour all their Corn : when they fee Flocks of them coming 
from a neighbouring Ground, that they may not light on thdrs, they redouble 
their cries, to make them go farther i and this they do every day Morning and 
Evening. The truth is, there are fo great numbers of Sparrows in Perfia^ that 
they deftroyall things, and fcare-Crows are fofar from frightning them, that they 
will Pcarch upon them. At eight a Clock we pafled by a little covered Kervan- 
feray called 7fcherchab^ which puts an end to the Corn-Fields ? for beyond that, there 
is hardly any thing to be found but Defarts fowed with ftones : about two hours 
after we pafled by another Kervanferay, like to the former, called lenghinom and 
a little further to the Left Hand, we faw a fmall Forreft of Palm-Trees. We after- 
wards marched on for the fpace of about two hours through very ftony Ground, 
and then came to good eVen Sandy way. Half an hour after one in the After- 
noon we palfed by a covered Kervanferay called Ouafili^ and keeping on our way 
over little Sandy Hills, We came at three a Clock to another, which is alfo co- 
vered, and called Schemzenghi, where we flopt, and this, place is feven Agatfch 
from Lar. 
Thefe Kervanferays are not built as others are, but are little covered buildings, 
about fix Fathom long, and as many broad on the outGde, and about a Fathom 
and a half high: in the middle of each Front there is a Gate, and you enter by 
thefe Gates under fo many Vaulted Walks, which run crofs- ways within, and have 
each about two Fathom in length i they leave in the middle or Centre of the crofs 
they make, a little Square about two Fathom every way, covered with a Dome. 
In fome of them, there is in each Vault a half pace of ftone two foot high, and 
about a Fathom broad i in the outfide is the Houfe of the Houfe-keeper, or Con- 
dar, (as they call him :) it ftands along one of the fides of the Kervanferay^ and in- 
fiead of Walls , is only enclofed with a little Hedge i in the mean time all 
the Provifions you are to expecîî:, muft be had out of thefe wretched Hovels. 
When there is no body in the Kervanferay, thefe Houfe-keepers retire to their Village 
or Huts, which is out of the way a quarter or half a French League from thence, 
and fometimes Travellers muft go look for them, when they have had no no- 
tice of their coming. In the Angles of thefe jïfrz^^Aj/êriïjx there are commonly lit- 
tle Chambers, which have the Doors on the outfide, and the reft of the place 
is for the Horfes > there is no other water but what is drawn out of Ci- 
fierns, of which there are many in the Fields a little way from the Ker- 
vanferay. 
We parted from that wretched Lodging Friday the third of Aprils about four 
a Clock in the Evening, and Travelled through a large very even Plain, where 
we faw in many places the Ground whitened over with Salt, which is made by the 
BahâdiniJ Rain : about half an hour after five we pafled by a covered Kervanferay called 
Tfcbt^tfchii. Babadini i and about feven by another called Tfcbekifcbe}^ , by this laft there is a Hut 
where Rhadars Lodge i about eight a Clock we entered in amongft Hills, and 
had up Hill and down Hill in very bad ftony way : where having turned to 
and again till nine of the Clock, we came into a fair large Plain, and there 
marched on till about half an hour after eleven at Night , when we pafled 
along a great Village, where grow many Palm-Trees, from which it hath 
taken 
TTchenhab. 
Ttnghmun; 
Cuafili. 
Schm\exghi. 
