_ 226 _ one, and it seemed to me that he would ask three or four damasins, he answered that I could have all of them for one damasin which might be worth fifteen reis in our currency, so I took them from him, and asked him if he had more, to bring them to me on the following day. This he did, and brought fifteen, all of which I took from him for three damasins, absurdly cheap, but it truly seemed to me that they were not as tender and delicious as those of the Lisbon region. We were in this place on Saturday and Sunday and on the Monday, 28th of the month, at ten in the morning we set off again. A little after nightfall we camped in an uninhabited place, near a river of good water, and on the Tuesday in the morning we left there, and during the afternoon we arrived at another uninhabited place without water, where we did not delay long for one hour after nightfall we struck camp again. Two hours before sunrise we arrived at the foot of a range of mountains, also uninhabited, distant a good way from a well of very good water, where we spent the whole day. On Thursday at nine in the morning we continued our journey and arrived during the afternon in another uninhabited place without any water, and at midnight we took the road again, and having spent the rest of the night
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