_ 313 _ into two settlements. The one to the east is of Kurdish Moors, the one to the west of Armenians. They all live by cultivation like the others. That afternoon, as the plague was rife here, it afflicted one of our two lady-companions who had left India in the company of the mother superior. The other had turned back at Kashan for Ormuz. On the next day, three hours before dawn, we continued our journey towards the north-west along an arm formed by the sea in a south-easterly direction between ranges of mountains in sight of it, until we descended to the shore, where there is another small settlement of Armenians; then on through another range of mountains to the west, in sight the sea along another great arm. At the end of this there was a beautiful valley of many cultivated fields and orchards, a stream and a settlement of Armenians. Well on in the day, travelling over the top of the range of mountains along another great arm, to the west-north-west, about a league wide and two long, I saw a ship, one of those which sail this sea, larger than Galician rustic ones, with two sails, a square-rigged one and a lateen. At nearly midday we put up in a large place called Taduan, situated to the north of the road, also peopled by Armenians, consisting of stone and mud houses, covered
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