_ 301 _ way of passing. We continued with these hardships until the onset of night, when we went up into the heights of the mountains, because that was the nature of the road. Here I saw no more than what the Armenian had told me, and untold snow with which they the mountains were covered and weighed down. We travelled until two or three hours after nightfall, when we arrived at a caravanserai near a small place of mud houses, situated to the north of the road, called in Turkish Inguizevia, which means new monastery, because King Hassan Pasha, who ruled all Armenia, gave this place to a Kurdish Moor, free, but without any form of allowance of money, on condition that he gave something to eat to the wretched travellers passing this way. From this it took its name, because of the usage and custom of people in monasteries of giving food to the poor. Here I met a grandson of this Moor, whom the Turk, after becoming master if all these places, confirmed in the same position. It is peopled by Kurdish Moors, from whom all these lands from here as far as the frontiers of the Carahemits get their name. They are called Kurdistan, which means “lands of the Kurds. They are white people; they live from cultivation and the rearing of livestock, somewhat untamed, brave and warlike men.
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