Storia do Mogor 45.5

45.5

At six o'clock in the morning, before opening the gates, the watchman gives three warnings to the travellers, crying in a loud voice that everyone must look after his own things. After these warnings, if anyone suspects that any of his property is missing, the doors are not opened until the lost thing is found, By this means they make sure of having the thief, and he is strung up opposite the sarae. Thus the thieves, when they hear a complaint made, drop the goods somewhere, so as not to be discovered. Thes ire only intended for travellers (soldiers do not go into them). Each one of them might hold, more or less, from 800 to 1,000 persons, with their horses, camels, carriages; and some of them are even larger. They contain different rooms, halls, and verandas, with trees inside the courtyard, and many provision shops; also separate abodes for the women and men who arrange the rooms and the beds for travellers. I will speak hereafter of the deceits of all these, when I come [I., 71] to talk of the sultan Amayum (Humayun).