_ 212 _ When this had been agreed, they returned to the caravan at two o’clock in the morning. And then they sent him, through an Armenian, two turbans and two waistbands, and they took from him what he had brought as soon as he arrived and told him that if he returned in the morning, they would send the musket. For this reason the caravan pasha and the others in the caravan realised that they were thieves, and that they wanted to prolong the affair so that they could take money from him and steal some fardo of cloths, as they had done with the caravan ahead. They determined to set out in the morning without waiting for any more news. They told me that they saw clearly what had been plotted, and that I should write to the Captain of Ormuz, which was not so far away, asking him if he could not obtain satisfaction for the crime. On the next day, on awaking, having loaded the camels, we set out and travelled all day until the hour of nightfall, when we camped on a plain beside another stream. And on the next day, which was Thursday, at nine o’clock in the morning, we travelled again until nightfall, when we arrived on another uninhabited plain with very bad water. On the Friday morning I experienced such an intense chill that it left me in a very bad state, with a great fever
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