"رحلات في مناطق مختلفة من أفريقيا وآسيا العظمى لبضع سنوات. وصف إمبراطوريات بلاد فارس وهندوستان خاصةً: بالتداخل مع بعض الأحداث الهامة كما دارت في تلك المناطق أثناء تلك العصور اللاحقة. كذلك الأمر بالنسبة إلى الممالك الشهيرة الغنية الأخرى في الهند الشرقية والجزر المجاورة. والربط بين ديانة ولغة وعادات وأعراف كل منها على حدة: بالإضافة إلى ذكر ملاحظات صحيحة عن كل منها." [‎١‎٥‎٤] (٤٤٨/١٧٥)

54. Sir Dodraore Gotten'J Entrance Spahawn.
furlongs from Babylon) where that memorable battel 'twixt Artaxerxes and his Brothe
Cyrm was fought, whofe death is attributed to the Inhabitants of this City. It may J
( fome think ) either that fame Town which Pliny called Farodona, or Ore-hatys mPtof
my. Sir Robert Sherley was once Commander of this place, under that wicked parricide
and Apoftate Prince Cmftrndel-cham i but it feems they bore fmall love to either of their
memories j neither vouchlafing to bid him or us welcome (as molt Towns did we hi
therto paft through, although I have omitted to fpeak the Ceremonies,) nor any ac*
commodation there, though due to fo noble a paifenger. At this place Perfia is bound'
ed towards the North*, for here Ayrac or Parthia takes beginning. Chiraef, Gordon
achowy Nowhtngan, Kawrony Phtrujhabad, Eflache, Nahandioen-, are Towns in Farfift#'
which in this courfe I can but name: Yet that you may the better go along, and for thar
the lateft Maps of Perfia are erroneous, both in Rivers, fcituation of places, and tru
names of Towns (for to fpeak truth, none that 1 have feen, either thofe fet forth l/
Hondm Ortelm or Mercator who writ by one Copy, have five right names,) i
therefore inferred this of the Perfian Empire : in which, I prefume, neither the pofition
of places are much miitaken, nor the names of Towns in the leait fiditious.
The next day we got to Moyeor •, a. confiderable Town, for it confifted of about a
thoufand Houfes: And albeit their Houfes were neat, yet were they in no wife comm
rable to their Dove-houfes for curious outfides. This reafon they give, fonie of them
(as Tradition perfuades at leail) are defcended (not a Colmiha Noe, but) from thofe
who being taught to feed at Mahomet's^, not a little advanced his reputation ner-
fwadingthereby the fimple People they communicated to him intelligence from fome An
gel. Yet I rather think 'tis in memory of Semiramisy who (as Berofits relates) was in
her infancy nourilhed, and at her death transformed into a Dove^ for which caufc the
Syrians and-other Oriental Nations (the Jews excepted ) to this day have that bird in
more than ordinary eiteem amongft them. The Heathens alfo (believing that their gbd
defs Venus was hatcht, by a Dove which fat on an Egg that fell from Heaven intoW
yhratesy and by IFiihes rblled on Land,as Jul. Higinus hath it in his Fables) have it in equal
eflimacibn. Next night we were brought to Spahawnet by a Servant of Meloyember the
King's Fifcal j who intreated the AmbaiTadour to repofe' a day or two there tiU su
hawn could fit it felf for their more folemn Reception. Where in this interim we mav
remember, That moil of thofe Manzeels we have pait from Chehelmimr to this place
are 'twixt twenty and thirty miles afunder. The whole diftance is fomewhat above 200'
Engltjh miles, as I computed.
The tenth of April we left Spahawnet a Village fix miles South from Spahawn'
when we had gone afarfang further, we were invited to a Collation prepared in one of
the King s Gardens that was by the high-way, whither the Englifh Agent and fuch other
Enro-paan Merchants as were Refidentiaties in Spahawn came to exprefs their civilities
unto the Amballadour. A mile nearer the City, the the
loyemhts and Hodge.mz.ar the Prince in a Cavalcade of about four thoifand
Horfe and innumerable Foot, came out tb meet us The high-way for full 2 miles from
the Town was foil of Men, Women and Children: here alfo we found the in
wrh^T T <? W ^ 0 / 0Se u he k allth ^ wa ^ in a volle y of acclamations welcomed us
with Hofromdy Sofowardy, the better fort with Hojhgaldom Sofo^ldom ; in our Lan-
gmge. Welcomey welcome. Heartily welcome , which with the Kettle -drums Fifes Ta-
brets, Timbrels, dancing-Wenches, Hocus-pocuSSy and other anticks paft mv remcm-
brance v but according to the cuftom of thofe Countreys, ennobled tl^ entSLinmeTt
The Bridge alfo over which we paft into the City was in like manner Ml of wZTm
both fides.; many of which equally coveting to fee and to be feen, in a fair deDbrtment
SSaSe Weft fide of tS5 m Wa f S a Houfe of
™ A f at J 116 1 Welfc . ilde of the Mydany where fome of the Noble-Men kneeled down
and Teflalem d, three times k.ffing the King's threlhold,. and as oft knockedth^ hSds
m a cuftomary obe.lfance i agreeable to what ^ O^j'telato
times, PtifutitofftHkrMUtmpmugmOtBtbMt*
A Cofelbajh concluded the Ceremony in a Panesvrir Thzt th*
fince his beams fpread themlelves over all th^Unive^ ThL f 6 ' p" T T
exprelfing