_ 217 _ league and came to a place called Bini, a small settlement with many gardens, vineyards and orchards with all kinds of fruit and many cypresses, where we were for the whole of Thursday. Here two men and a woman, Persians, by which the place is inhabited, came to me. They had a sickness of the eyes, and others came with other illnesses, and they asked me to cure them. This happened to me in all the inhabited places where we arrived. As soon as we camped, they were with me, which irritated me even more than the slowness of our progress. I think this originated from two camel drivers because of one I had cured in Arbarqu. He had a problem in his shoulder, which others had cut out and removed a large part of the bone, but he was sound within seven or eight days. And so I treated the whole caravan, for the majority were bled once or twice, and I treated sores, because I was travelling provided with unguents and other things for any problem. And in the whole caravan they called me and knew me by no other name than hakim, which in Persian, Turkish and Arabic means doctor. For this reason the whole caravan paid me great respect even the camel drivers, who did not respect any of the merchants. Rather, on most days, they beat and insulted them.
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