69 lifestyle, given to pleasures and vices. They eat well and normally wash themselves regularly and anoint themselves with scents. Both men and women always wear many jasmin and other flowers that grow here in their hair. They are great musicians, with many different ways of playing and singing. There are horse and ox carts constantly going through the city streets, which they use to carry all manner of things, and there are others withfine wooden divans, in coaches and covered like a chamber, and carved with fine carpentry and windows hung and decorated with many silk cloths, and their [...] [1] The carters are well-known and trusted men, and they drive women to see games and pleasures, or male and female friends without anyone being able to see or know who is inside; and they play music and sing and amuse themselves as they wish. The inhabitants of this city have many gardens, vegetable patches and orchards, which provide them with relaxation, where they grow fruit and vegetables, which are the main sustenance of those who do not eat any living creature. They use a lot of ivory in crafts here. They make manyfine, inlaid objects and others are worked on a lathe, such as bracelets; dagger handles and intricate chess pieces and boards, because there are manyfine turners here who can make anything. Finely sculpted ivory bedsteads, and all manner of beads in black; yellow; blue, and red and many colours, that they take to many places from here; there are great lapidaries here and forgers of precious stones and all kinds of false pearls, that seem real. There are also excellent goldsmiths who make fine pieces; they also make beautiful bedcovers here and bed canopies, that are finely crafted and painted and many quilted clothes. There are also many Mouros needlewomen whose use very delicate stitching in their fine works. They also work a lot with coral and carnelians here, and all sorts of other stones, hence there arefine craftsmen for all crafts in this city. 1. Page cut. The last line was cut off.
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