_ 202 _ linen skirt, and placed over my face a towel dampened in water, and this made me feel some coolness and made my body more comfortable, because the character of this wind is such, that if it passes through cloth or is filtered by something which is not in contact with the body, it is more moderate and does not burn. Having left this place, we spent the night in a wide plain surrounded by great mountains ranges, where we slept with a good watch, firing all night with three muskets which we had with us, for this is a place of many thieves. And on the following day, in the morning, we travelled through the middle of these mountains, along a stream of salt water which flows between them, and continues almost to the end of them. It is said that it [this stream] comes from an arm which the sea makes from the Strait of Ormuz into that side of Persia. We continued our way always between them the mountains which in some places went up to the heaven, while in others there were great depressions and cavities, formed by the great activity of the weather with the great flood of waters which flow down over them in the winter, while others were so smooth from the same flow that they appeared to be man-made throughout that day until night, when we camped among them in a small level area formed
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