Part IL Travels into the Ile v k nt, iji 
Thelfleof Cwi^ reaches in length, from South- Eafi to North-Wejl it is v try car i^. 
narrow, and about three or four Leagues in compafs; it is about twelve Leagues 
{xQVCiBender-Kegh, and fifty from Bajfora. Thislfland is partly hilly and partly 
plai"ï»v. it produces Wheat, Barley, Dates, and good Grapes v there is very good 
water Uf^a^p italfo, which comes from a Hill, that has many ancient Wells ten or 
twelve Fathoms deep, dug in the Rock on the top of it > and (as I was fold,) 
there are fteps in them to go down to the botfom, and the people of the liland 
go thither to take the fre(h Air in the Summer-time. The water paffes at the bot- 
tom of thefe Wells, and from thence runs under ground into the Plain ; near to 
thefc Wells, there is a Mofque upon the Hill. There may be ^JeaU an hundred 
and fifty Houfes in all the liland, (as I was told,) but they are fcattered up and 
down, and to fpeak properly, they are no more but pititul Huts -, nemthelefs every 
one of them has a Well of Spring- water. Near to that Ifle, they Fiih for Pcdrl, Pearl-FKhing, 
at the fame time, they do at Bahrem i and I was told that during the feafoh of 
Filliing, which is in May^ June, July^ and Augujl^ there are to be feen abr ut this 
Ifland above an hundred 'ïaranquins or Fi(her-Boats. The King of Terfia is Lord 
of it, and has a Governour there, who depends on the Govcrnour of Lender Kegh. 
The people of thislfland arc all fifhermen, and live only on Salt Fifh and Date'-, 
The Ships that are bound for Bajfora, commonly touch at this place to take in a 
Pilot who conduârs them to Bajfora, and brings them back again at four months 
end to the fame Ifland, where they leave him. There we left curs, who had been 
taken in four months before. But it was not only to fet him a (hoar that we touched Arrival at the 
at that Ifland i our chief bufinefs was to unload Goods belonging to Codgk^ 
minas, which were Indigo, Cloaths, and other I/2«/m« Commodities, brought in the 
fame Ship, and which not being difpofed of at Bajfora, through the bad Condudt 
of the Vikll, he was neceffitated to reimbark, and fend them to Carel^, to be con- 
veyed from thence to Bender-Regh, and fo to Ifpahan. Befides, they made account 
to take on Board feveral Armenian Merchants and their mony, who waited on this 
Ifland for a paflage to the Indies : for within thefe late years, the Armenians that 
they may not pay Cuflom at Congo have taken the Courfe to go ftreight from Schiras 
to Bendtr-Regh, where there is no Cuftom-Houfe, and from thence pafs over to 
Carek^, where they wait for the opportunity of fome Ships coming that way, which 
may carry them and their mony. However the Moufon before, fome Armenians 
upon their return from the Indies, having put a (hoar at Bender-Regh to avoid the 
Cuftomsof Congo, the Cufiomer went to Law with them about it at J/]>a/^ij«, pre- 
tending that they ought to pay him the Cuflom, and it was thought that it would 
coft them at leaft a good part of the mony, which they muft have paid at Congp^ 
and that for the future there would be a Cuftom-Houfe eftabliflied at Bender-Regh. 
The Ships that t ouch at Carek^, keep out at Sea to the Jfefiivard of it, to'fliun the 
danger of being caft away in that narrow flreight which is betwixt Carel{_ and Cargott. 
As foon as we were come to an Anchor, five or fix fmall T^aranqmns, (which are 
thofe fowed Boats I defcribed before,) came a Board of us to take in all the Goods 
that were for Perfia, which lafted from five, till half an hour after feven a Clock 
at night. Our Company were much deceived as to the Armenian Merchants, for 
contrary to their expcdation, they found not one : which was occafioned by a 
trick of a Dutchman, Captain of the Ship called the Mafulipatan, who had given The trick of a 
them a caft of his Trade. This Ship being gone from Baffora a day before we put Dutch man, 
out, was come to Careil^ two days fooner than we did i the Captain maJcingufe of 
theoccafion, failed not cotellthe Merchants who waited forour Ship, thatlhe would 
not come this year, which they believed to be true, and went aboard with their 
mony on his Ship. All this proceeded from the fault of the Vik^l, that flayed be- 
hind at Bajfora, who detained the Ship in the Harbour a Fortnight longer than he 
ftiould have done, to get on Board fome Goods which payed not above an hundred 
Piaftres Freights and in the mean while he loft the Freight of a great deal of 
Goods and Mony, and of many Paflengers that were at Care\, Congo, and Comoron 
who embarked in the Ships which touched at thefe Ports before us. 
When we had put a (hoar all the Goods, and the Man who was to take care of 
themi we weighed Anchor three quarters of an hour after feven, making all the 
Sail we could, and Steering away South, South-Eafl, with a very eafie Wind^ 
about ten a Clock we were becalmed till midnight, when there blew a little Gale at 
Eaji, but as eafie as the former, and with it we bore away Sonth. 
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