_ 89 _ a river of good water, where we came across the tents of three or four herdsmen who keep livestock there. On these days we were travelling towards the east-north-east, then to the north-east and north-north-east. On 25 August we came to a place called [Haor]. Item: [Haor] is a place situated to the west along a river of good water with many orchards producing good fruit, especially good almonds and grapes. It has about twenty of thirty houses in stone and mud, with poor people, as in the places before. There I was given four partridges for a damasin, which is about fifteen reis; there are many around here, and they are as tasty as those from the Lisbon area. We stayed here for two days, and on 28 August we set out again. We camped in another uninhabited place by a river of good water. On the following day we camped in another uninhabited plain without water, but on the day after that we arrived at a well of very good water. On the following day we came to another depopulated place without water, through many ranges of mountains, travelling now towards the north, now towards the north-east. On the next day we arrived in a place called [Riscóo]. Item: [Riscóo] is a small, scattered, run-down place, but cool with plantations and orchards, peopled by the
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