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JOHNSON, 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Mqgeaine. 
SIR, 
O few are the accounts of agele 
which have as yet been translated 
from the eastern languages, that Mon- 
sieur Langlés, member of the National 
Institute, and Professor of Persian in Pa- 
_ris, was induced a few years to present 
the public with the following anecdotes of 
Abdulrizak’s: Embassy to India, during 
the years 845, 846, &c. of the hegira, or 
of Christ 1442, 1448, &c. ‘The ingenious 
professor 
Muatlaé Saddein, ovr Jemaa Bahrein, a 
Persian Manuscript in the Bibliotheque 
Nationale (No. 106), and they were pub- 
lished in the second volume of his Cullec- 
tion Portative de Voyages. Asl can- 
not find that they ever appeared im an - 
English dress, I hope my translation of 
them from the French may prove accept- 
able to the rcaders of your widely diffused 
Magazine, and that “ they will enjoy (to 
use M. Langlés’s words,) the astonishment 
of our devout Mussulman, who found 
himself transported into distant countries, 
and in the midst of people to whom. he 
was a stranger, and of whom, at that time, 
the Europeans possessed but very imper- 
fect and uncertain information.” Ab- 
dulrizak, was sent by Shah Rokh, one of 
the four sons of Timur (or Tamerlane) ; 
and the object of his embassy was to es- 
tablish a political and commercial inter- 
course between Persia, Tartary, and Llin- 
doostan, at a time when there were few 
Europeans who ventured to cast a glance 
on regions so remote. Our own early 
travellers are not free from the reproach 
of exaggeration and misrepresentation ; 
and religious prejudices must be excused 
in our pious Mahommedan. The French 
translator conceived that this journey 
would amuse and please his eountrymen. 
I trust mine will find the present version 
not uninteresting. Your's, &e. 
London, September, 1807. J. G: 
Travels from Persia to India, &c. 
Chap, L—AnpuLrizak having re- 
ceived hisinstructions fyom Shak Rokh and 
provided every thing necessary for a long 
journey, set out from Herat on the ist 
Montury Mac., No. 170. 
(telakad ‘them from the 
day of Ramazan, 845 (January, 1442) j 
and taking the route of Kirman through 
Kouhistan, arrived at the capital of the 
former province on the 18th. Thisis a 
fine city and admirably situated; here 
he passed the festival of Bairam, and left 
iton the 5th of Shoual, (February) di- 
recting his course towards Hormuz. On 
the 15th of the same month, he arrived at 
the port of Hormuz, ou the borders of the 
Persian gulph As soon as the Emir 
Fukhreddiv Touran Shah, prince of Hors 
muz, had been informed of his arrival, a 
vessel was sent to bring him into the city, 
where he was entertained at the e expence 
of that sovereign to whom he paid his re- 
spects. 
The town of Hormuz (also calied Je. 
roun) is situated in the midst of the sea, 
On the face of the earth one cannot find 
such a city. Merchants from the seven 
climates of the world assemble there: 
from Egypt, Syria, Anatolia,® Trak/ Arabi 
(Chaldea and Mesopotamia), Persian Jrak 
(or Parthia), Khorasan, Maweralnahar 
(or Transoxania), furkestan, the States of 
the Deshtii Kipehak (or desert of Great 
Tartary), the country of the Kalmucks, 
ne all parts of the East, China, Ma- 
een (Tartary), and k hanbelilk (or Pekin), 
aa sea, the merchants come there from 
Bengal, Ceylon, the towns of Zyrbad, of 
Tanassery,¢ of Sokotra,f Schernou, the 
Diveh islands,§ the different parts of 
Abyssinia, from Zanguehar, the ports of 
Setchangor, Kelber, ‘the Guzerat, Cam- 
baya, and the coasts of Arabia, as far as 
Aden and Jiddah,|| whence they bring 
all kinds of precious merchandize: so 
that one finds at Hormuz every thing that 
can be imagined. The trade Is carried 
on both in money and by exchange: and 
a duty (tenth) is paid on all manner of 
* In Persian Roum, which may also signify 
EaseDE 
+ Called also Tannasserim; a great bay 
of the kingdom of Siam; the ancient Thine. 
t The largest island at the entrance of the 
Red Sea. 
§ Probably the Diu where the Portuguese 
established themselves in 1515. 
|| The nearest port to Mecca, 
Pp wares 
