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half water. We were exttcamly tolTed all night long, and I wondered that the 
Bark fprang not a Leak, being fo beaten by the waves. 
Next day being Sunday the eleventh of October^ we weighed about feven a 
Clock, and kept beating upon a Wind from" South-W ?fi, to Nortb-Eafl, until Noon, 
that we had calm weather; at length, about half an hour after two, we had a 
breeze from South-Weft \ which made us weigh Anchor in good earneft, and ftand 
away North Weft. It is to be obfervcd that in all that Voyage we had not above 
two, three, four, or fix Fathom water at raoft, though we were fo fir out at Sea, 
that we could not difcover the Land but like Clouds, About fix a Clock at night 
we were becalmed, and came to an Anchor. About midnight we had a frelh Gale 
from Nerth'Weft. 
Monday Morning the twelfth of O&oher, the Wind Hackned very much, buC 
changed noti and therefore we weighed Anchor at half an hour after eighty and 
(landing away South-Weft, we were foon after becalmed. Towards Noon we 
Rowed a little, and half an hour after, had a breeze from South-Weft^ with which 
we bore away till three in the Afternoon, when we entered into the Ri- 
ver Caron^ that comes from the Hills, above the Town Soufter, wiiich is the Ca- caron. 
pital Town of Khuftjian, and was in ancient times the Town of Sufi where Aha- 
Jueruf held his Court. This River of Caron, mufl be the Coafpes of the Anci- 
ents i nay they affured me, that there is ftill at prefent near to the Town of Soufter, Ahafmus. 
a Hill called C/;(7i2//', where the River of C^irow, which S anjon cMs 7iripari, liritiri, Coafpis.^ 
and Zeimarehuh its fource, but what reafon he has for thefe names, I cannot tell, cheaff. ^ 
lïnce no body could give me any account of them, though I have enquired of '^^■.^/J^l' 
many, who all told me, they knew of no fuch thing. On the Right Hand to the 
Jfeft, there is an I fle called Vorgheftans and on the Left, or towards the Eaft, is Dorghelîan, 
the Hland of Ghebatt^ the point whereof is called Momk and Gheban, becaufe all ^Man. . 
that Country is called Gheban -, and is the limits of the Kingdom of Bajfora on that 
lide. In tliat place to the Left Hand, there is a piece of of Palm-Tree- Wood fixed 
in the Ground, to feive for a fignal when it his high water, not to go beyond it, 
and they call that fignal Dgkudoh. The Land here on both fides depends on the 
Baftja of Baftora. 
Theufual way to Bajfora is by Sea, to the inouth of Schat-d-Aarah, which Tlie way t© 
they enter and go by water to BaJfora\ but we put in to the Puiver, becaufe our ^'^ff"''^- 
Sea-men, (who had nothing to do at Bajfora,) being only come to take in Dates, 
impofed upon us, telling us that we muft go to Gheban, to take in frefh water 
and wood, which we wanted, and that it was alfo the (horteft cut to Baffora ■-, 
but that great Barks went not that way, becaufe it was not deep enough, 
which we too eafily believed. So foon as we were got into the River, we 
came to Anchor in a Fathom water. At low water the Priver at that place 
is but very little fair, and a little higher it is frtfh even when it is Flood. 
Being Flood about midnight, our men fell to their Oars, but Rowed not above 
an hour, and then came to an Anchor. The Country about fcems to be 
very good Land, it is low, even and green on all Hands, and we faw 
many Cows there feeding in the Meadows, which look much like the Mea- 
dows of Holland. 1 
Tuefday the thirteenth of O&ober, about ten a Clock in the Morning, our Sea- 
men went a (hoar, and Towed us up till one of the Clock, when being over 
againft a Village, where there are a great many Palm- Trees, we hoilkd Sail with 
z North- Weft Wind that lafted not long, and fo came to an Anchor again. Out 
men went a (hoar, to hear News, (as they faid,) of Baffora, and coming back in 
the Evening told us, that all things were in confufion at Baffora--, that the Ba- 
(ha was marched with his whole Army towards Bagdad, and that all Barks 
were taken up for Tranfporting of Soldiers, and that therefore they durit go no 
farther -, but were rcfolved to return empty to Bender-Rik^ This was all falfe, and A cheat of th« 
the truth was, they had no mind to go any farther, defigning to take in their Car- ^ea-nien. 
goe at the place we were at, where there is plenty of Dates i and that was the 
leafon they had brought us that way. 
Neverthelefs we muft pretend to believe all the Knaves told us, and try to find 
another Bark, to carry us to Baffora. We fent then a fervant next day to look 
for one, and he brought us a fmall thing, wherein the men promifed in four and 
twenty houis to carry us to the Town, for fix Jbaffîs which we gave them, Thefe 
X Barks 
