_ 208 _ the north we arrived a little short of some small mountain ranges, in an uninhabited plain. And on the following day, two hours after sunrise, travelling towards the north-west, we arrived at midday at a stream of very good water, near a vegetable growing area called Cacan where there was a tent in which lived a Persian Moor, who, together with his wife, organised and sold provisions to travellers. This is the beginning of the lands of Shah Tahmasp. Here we had very bad melons, but good chickens, cockerels and goats, with which we made up for the past three days, which we had spent eating only rice and butter, because there was nowhere that sold anything. That afternoon the guard which had escorted us said farewell to us, for it was not the custom to go any further, as the way ahead was safer. I gave a letter to the captain for the Governor, begging him to send it to Ormuz by a foot soldier he was discharging, for he the Governor would pay well for the journey. In this letter I gave an account of the death my companion, of the disappointment I felt at the slowness of the caravan, and that I was afraid of being overtaken by the winter on the way; and that this as a great obstacle to the haste and urgency which he had do greatly commended to me.
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