_ 207 _ do so, apart from his musket and a few other things he took from him. On the next day, which was Tuesday 1st August, at eight o’clock in the morning, the caravan struck camp, and we made our way between widely-spaced ranges of mountains, less high than the ones before. And in the afternoon we camped in a plain at the foot of a mountain, near a lake of rain-water, where we had a storm with a great shower of rain. Hereabouts we had a few winter afternoons which came from India, where it the winter is coming to an end at this time; and it passes to this other climate of Ormuz; and we were not sorry, for it broke somewhat the terrible winds which had tormented us most. Then a brother of the captain of the castle of Thezir arrived with two horsemen and about forty or fifty foot- archers, who came to escort us, for this road is very dangerous for its thieves. They did this for one hundred and fifty xains which the Moors and people of the caravan had given them. That night they guarded us well with some fires, which we saw in the mountains. On the following day we left before dawn, and after having gone about two leagues, at ten o’clock in the morning, we camped in a plain, where we ate. At nightfall we struck camp again, and one hour after sunset we had been travelling for these two days towards
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