_ 92 _ Tamás and who had very courteously requested a gift of him, which he had given them. We were travelling sometimes towards the north, sometimes towards the north-west and the north-north-west on account of the changes of direction occasioned by the mountains. On the following day we arrived in a place called Nadushan. Item: Nadushan is a larger and more populous place than those we had passed. It is situated to the north or north-east and consists of very good houses, built in their manner of mud and timbers, and having open courtyards like ours, but with some covered shelters and arches in the four walls of the house, and on the other four (for they are built in an octagon) four houses with their small gateways closed and with stairways up to their flat roofs. They have windows giving on to the inside of the courtyards. The women are fairer-skinned and more beautiful than Portuguese women, and very graceful. They wear long skirts like our shirts, closed down the front. They have blue-dyed cotton cloaks, which they spin and weave themselves. They wear long breeches down to the feet of the same cloth, white and embroidered; shoes, and some of them half-hose and large white cloths on their heads. The men wear large quilted tunics wrapped around them down to their feet, and turbans on their heads; in the
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