_ 300 _ see what they brought in, and he would pay this in money, or would give him in recompense a city and lands to that value. But the Turk did not wish to do this. Once we had passed this house, we continued our way between these mountains, over very rough roads, stony in parts, from time to time crossing the river. This has to be done many times because the road goes around many bends. With one hour of the day remaining we stayed at the foot of a very high, steep mountain, which afforded shelter. I prepared to climb it, for it seemed to me that it was so high that from its summit I would see the whole world. An Armenian Moorish convert who was travelling with us told me that I should not take the trouble, for it was late, and the descent would be very difficult for me; and that in any case I would see no more than he had already seen, that is to say very large mountains and hills reaching up to heaven on all sides the eye could see. On the following day in the morning we resumed the journey along the same stream, through the mountains and over rough roads, which in many places were so narrow for they had been opened with pickaxes in the very rocks that the loads had to be removed, because there was no other
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