_ 225 _ I feared, too, that the winter because my time was being wasted would be a great obstacle to my arriving in Portugal before he did. On these days we had been travelling towards the west-north-west, and on the following Thursday, which was 24th August, at eight o’clock, we left there, and at nightfall we camped by a stream of very good water. Here there were three or four tents of shepherds who kept their animals there. On the Friday we left at the same time, and at nightfall we camped in a deserted place without water. At midnight we continued our journey, north-west and north-north-west, and about two hours after sunrise we arrived at another small place called Haor, situated to the west of the road, along a stream of very good water, with many orchards, very cool with fruit, and very good nuts which at this season were very tender, and the best I have ever seen, almonds and very good grapes. There were about twenty or thirty houses in stone and mud, peopled by poor Persian people with the same manner and life as those of Xibabeque. During the afternoon a Persian Moor passed alongside my tent with three partridges in his hand, which he was selling. When I asked him how much he would sell me
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