_ 110 _ loads of it are sent to many places; for the Moors use it a great deal for the linings of quilted tunics and other articles. They sow and water this cotton like vegetables, and together with the cotton they sow many balsam-fig trees; they roast the fruit over a fire, grind it into bricks and make oil for candles. In other parts of Persia where there is a great deal of it they make this in presses. We left here, passing great rivers and pools; it was very cold and the water froze. We spent the night in a place called [Parsag], which is situated to the north-east [of the road]. It is large, but in poor condition, inhabited by similar people and very luxuriant. On the next night we passed through a good city called Abbar Haiya. and arrived at a place called Hiar. It is inhabited by similar people and situated to the south. A good river flows through the middle of it which drives mills. On the next day we arrived at a high hill where it appears that this road comes to an end, for from Ormuz to here we had always travelled uphill, but from here we travelled downhill. On the next day, the last of October, we arrived in a large plain alongside a river which rises in this plain, half a league from Sultaniyeh.
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