Storia do Mogor 40.1

40.1

WE were now to continue our journey, wherefore we begged the help of Mestre Jonh (Henry Young), who gave to the ambassador the assistance he required. We wished to leave Isfahan in company of the said Mestre Jonh (Henry Young), but we could not conclude our business in time. He left several days before we did, and we left at the end of September of one thousand six hundred and fifty-two (1652). During our journey to the town of Xiras (Shiraz) we obtained good supplies of food, but the road is somewhat difficult, owing to the mountain ranges which must be crossed, where horses are fatigued not a little in trying to keep their feet. But I must allow there is also some fine open country, notwithstanding there are some very difficult swamps. The mountains are like all those in Persia — that is to say, generally bare of trees, though not wanting in fodder for sheep and goats, which in some places produce the stone called b'azar (bezoar). Of these stones I will speak when I come to write of the kingdom of Gulkhandah (III. 59), where there is an abundance of them. The sheep of Persia are very prolific; they bring forth young twice a year, by the help of a grain called chicharos on which they are fed at a certain time of the year ; and their wool is of the sort already described (I. g).