_ 231 _ On Saturday morning, which was 3rd September, we continued our journey, and passed a well-built castle, made in wattle and daub in the French style. We camped about two or three musket-shots in front of it, alongside a stream of very good water. In the evening, at nightfall, the camel drivers came to tell us that a number of theives had come where the camels were grazing, and they were afraid that they might attack us that night. They advised us to be watchful and prepared. Everyone put his clothes together, we were as prepared as might be, but we watched all night without seeing anyone. On the following day the camel drivers refused to leave, because the camels were weak and there was good grazing there. On the Tuesday, early in the morning we left, and at nightfall camped in an uninhabited plain. On Thursday at the same hour we travelled again, and arrived after midday in another deserted place with a stream of miserable water. On the Friday morning, when we were about to load, a Bedouin Moor arrived, on horseback, armed with his sword, bow and arrows. After we had shown him to the caravan pasha, for whom he asked, he told him that behind a range of mountains which he indicated, there were fifteen disaffected horsemen of Shah Tahmasp, who had very
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