_ 88 _ the 13th of the month, when a gift had been given to the captain, because in every place where there is a captain it is the custom for caravans to give him one, we stayed in a field next to a mill. We were not covering more than one, two, three, or at most four leagues each day. Then we travelled for three or four days across deserts with very bad water, where we met a caravan travelling from Kashan to Ormuz. I sent a letter to Ormuz with them; and on the fourth day we arrived at a settlement called Sehr-e Babak. Item: Sehr-e Babak is a place of forty or fifty citizens, situated to the north-north-west. It is cool, with good water, much cattle and fruit, all of which they sell to the caravans. They also sell a kind of broad robes, which are called capaneques, and blankets which they make from sheep’s wool, and bonnets lined with fur. They are fair-skinned people of amiable disposition, who look like the Portuguese. Here I was much sought after by sick people, mainly suffering from problems with their eyes; there are many of these along this road, and it appears that this is on account of the fur caps they wear. We stayed here for two days, and I sent a letter by a servant of the guazil of Ormuz, who was returning from Yazd to Ormuz. On 24 August we left here and camped by
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