_ 330 _ well encircled by a strong wall of stone and ashlar. There are many windows with blinds in the houses of the Kurds who live inside, for the Armenians live below. They have their own watchmen and emplacements there. There is more game here than in all the other places mentioned before, namely goats, sheep, wild cattle and mountain pigs, which the Moors often kill and give to the Christians. There are great hunters in the city, and they climb over the rough mountains by which it is surrounded, looking for the holes in the ground where the game live. When they cannot get there, they make steps in the snow and mud. When they are dry, they climb up by them, and from there they sometimes throw them down with their horns still on them. I was assured that goats and old sheep have been killed on occasion which had horns reaching to their tails; and of each of these a whole bow was made and sent by the lord of the land to the Turk as a gift. In this city King David lived almost all the time because he was a great enthusiast of hunting. He was a giant, lord of Armenia, as already related, and he destroyed the city of Aglat. He lived there with his wife, also a giant, called Handut. She wore gold rings on her legs for that was the custom so large and wide that there was space in them for the head and body of a man. She is buried in a castle a
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