_ 233 _ beautiful. They dress in long garments like our shirts, closed at the front, without petticoats; dyed blue, made of cotton that they themselves spin and weave, with long trousers down to the feet, in the same cotton, but white, narrow and much embroidered. They wear shoes, and some wear cloth half- breeches, and large white cloths on their heads. The boys and girls can all read Persian very well, for they have them taught, and their parents care greatly about this. The men wear quilted tunics, large, down to the feet, and turbans on their heads and in the summer white tunics made of fine cotton. They wear shoes which they whiten, with many soles. Others wear half-boots fastened with straps; and I found them no different from the Portuguese except in manner and language, for in this stature and facial features there was no difference. They live as others do by selling their articles and novelties to travellers. I saw a threshing floor for this is their season throughout Persia, as in our Europe two Moors riding on two low, small wagons, attached from behind to two horses, one for each, and one behind the other, with their switches in their hand with they goaded them. And on the underside of the wagons, which almost touched the ground were fitted two rows of steel wheels, six rows on each wagon, set two
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