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leaving that to the Left Hand which is very dangerous, if vve may believe the peo- 
ple of the Country i for they would needs perfuade us that on that H.ll (here were 
Vgmt who killed all Paflengers : by that word Vgius they underftand evil Spirits, Bgh^^. 
which (they fay) are of a middle Nature betwixt Angels and Men. This imaginati- 
on then they have/and give it out for a very certan thing, thac in that Hill there is a 
lUfim^ or Charm, by vertue whereof the Vgius prevail, and that they make Caul- 'i^HfM^ 
drons there, the found whereof may be heard, for they all agree that feme men 
have been there and come fafe back again, who related all theie things : but they 
fay, that none but fuch as have been excepted from the Charm, by him who made 
it, can return back again. The truth of the matter is, according as 1 have learned 
from fome of more fenfe, and who have advanced a little in that vvay, it is fo 
bad, that if one engage but in the lea(i in if, it is very hard to get back again, 
fo full it is of Precipices on all Hands. Neverthelefs the way feems to be fo much 
the better, that though wc had warning given Us, we began to mount by it, when 
our Guide fuddcnly called to us, and made us follow him the other s this Hill is called 
KoMchtfcheizer Gherom.. Kouckfchii^ir 
When wc were over this paflage, we Travelled almoft two hours in a Champian 
Ground, where there are a great many little Mounts or Hillocks, fome one, fome 
two, and fome almoft four Fathom high. About eleven a Clock we pafled by a 
little covered Kervanferay, called Homi SourkJ)^ (that is to fay) red blood, and is ^'"'-"^ Ssurih 
four Jgatfchùom Ghetfchi: about an hour and a half after, we came to another 
little covered Kervanjeray, called Bendali^ which is but an Agatjcb from Homi 
SoHrk^t andclofe by the Sea: werefted there two hours, becaufc they would have 
fired upou us from the Fort of Bender Abajp^ it we had come there in the Night 
time, and therefore we parted not from Bendali till next day at half an hour after 
two in the Morning i and a little after five a Clock we came to the Houfe of a 
Rhadar near the Town of Bender^ where the Jurifdiétion of the Ch^ of Lar ends. Arrival at 
and that of the Chan of Bender begins. 
CHAP. V. 
Of Bender- Abaffi, Ormus, and the Authors 
return to Scliiras. 
So foon as we arrived, the Rhadar^ (according to theCuftom,) carried us to the 
Cuftom-Houfe , where our Goods were fearched v and then we went and 
Lodged in a Kervanferay. Before Î engage to fay any thing of Bender, it will not be 
amifs here to obfcrve fome Errors in the Maps, which all place the Town of Schiras 
almoft two thirds of the way from Ifpahan to Bender^ and neverthelcfs it is bur one Errors m 
third. Befides the Authors of thefe Maps put Bender to the Somh-lFefi, and almoft ^^°g"P^y- 
to the TFejl of Lar, and yet it is to the Eajitvard of it -, and Lar is to the Eaji^ draw- 
ing a little towards the South ot Schiras. 
All along the Road from Lar^ or rather from Vehi-Ken to Bender^ grow many 
of thofe accurfed Plants which the Perfians call Kherzehreh^ of which I have fpoken iQjir^shreh up- 
before, and whicl^re pretended to have fuch noxious qualities j that if in Jme or 'he Road, 
July, any man breath in certain hot Sonth Winds that come from the Sea, and Mortal Winds* 
blow over thefe Plants, he falls down dead i and at moft, has no more time than to 
fay he burns: which happened at Be«Jer Cow^o, (where that Wind rages much,) to 
the Vikjloï Monfieur dei" Efhille, who as (oon as he had faid he burnt, died with- 
out remedy, though there was a great deal of water prcferitly thrown upon his 
body: that is the reafon that during thefe two months men Travel «hère but very » 
feldom. After all, I can hardly agree in Opinion with the people of the Coun- 
try, who attribute this bad effed to that Plant, I (liould rather think that it pro- 
ceeded only from the malignity of the Wind i for at Mofnl where that Wind reigns 
alfo, and is much dreaded, I never heard any mention made of that Plant, This 
Wind 
