_ 327 _ in a southerly direction, there is a fine castle on a very strong rock, well encircled by a high wall of stone and lime, and well guarded, called Cofundur. On the following day we left in the morning over the same rough roads and very muddy descents, with great woods and forests of holm oaks. We went on for about two leagues for there was another caravan ahead carrying silk, and the caravanserai for spending the night was too small to accommodate all of us; we stayed there in another, very fine one, which is called in Turkish Coxahan, which means “two caravanserais,” since there is another adjoining it. On the following day, before dawn, we continued our journey, over the same rough country of ascents and descents. At eight or nine in the morning we passed through a small village called Marmora. Travellers call it “the home of partridges” because of the infinite number of them there are in that area. It is peopled by Kurdish Moors and is situated to the north of the road. On a hill, a little away from the road, we arrived at another caravanserai a little after midday. Here some guards who were there on behalf of a Kurdish lord would not let us pass. He lives in a castle about half a league away from the road in a southerly direction, which is called Zaraguy.
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