_ 204 _ thirty loads, the thieves did not dare come to us, being afraid of our muskets, one of which I carried myself, and my companion Araguzeo another. On the following day, in the afternoon, towards nightfall, we struck camp, and went on through mountains, not so high as the ones before, and without the river, for it comes to an end at that stopping place. And an our after sunrise we came to a castle called Thezir, where the captain was a Hoor, a brother-in-law of the last King of Ormuz, for this is still his domain. Near the castle is a village of about fifty citizens, earthen houses, peopled by Persian Moors, poor people who make their living from dates from the palms, of which there are many thereabouts and from rearing chickens, from goats, milk and cheeses which they sell to the travellers, for this is a road much frequented on the way to many parts of Persia. We camped on a broad hilltop a little before the village, where we mounted guard that night, too, firing with our muskets. The people of the village soon came to sell many grapes, almost as good as ours, and I naturally grabbed them, for I had been longing for fruit. On the morning of the following day we also had grapes and white figs, very good, like ours, chickens, goats, green pomegranates,
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