John Crowther returned into India, and Richard Steel went to England by way of Turkey, by the following route.  Leaving Ispahan on the 2d December, 1615, he went five p. to a serail.  The 3d, eight p. to another serail.  The 4th, six p. to a village.  The 5th, seven p. to Dreag.  The 6th, seven p. to a serail.  The 7th, eight p. to Golpigan, [Chulpaigan.] The 8th, seven p. to Curouan.  The 9th, seven p. to Showgot.  The 10th, six p. to Saro, [Sari.] The 11th, eight p. to Dissabad.  The 12th, twelve p. to a fair town called Tossarkhan, where he rested some days, because the country was covered deep with snow.  The 15th, six p. to Kindaner.  The 16th, eight p. to Sano.  The 17th to Shar nuovo, where I was stopped by the daiga; but on shewing him letters from the vizier, he bade me depart in the name of God and of Ali.  The 18th we passed a bridge where all travellers have to give an account of themselves, and to pay a tax of two shakees for each camel.  The 19th we came to Kassam-Khan, the last place under the Persian government, and made a present to the governor, that he might give me a guard to protect me from the Turkomans, which he not only did, but gave me a licence to procure provisions free at his villages without payment, which yet I did not avail myself of.

The 21st of December I began to pass over a range of high mountains which separate the two empires of Persia and Turkey, which are very dangerous; and, on the 22d, at the end of eight p.  I arrived at a village.  The 23d, after travelling seven p.  I lay under a rock.  The 24th I came to Mando, eight p. a town belonging to the Turks.  The 25th, eight p. to Emomester.  The 26th, eight p. to Boroh, passed over a river in a boat, and came that night to Bagdat.  I was here strictly examined and searched for letters, which I hid under my saddle; but observing one trying there also, I gave him a sign, on which he desisted, and followed me to my lodging for his expected reward.  I fared better than an old Spaniard, only a fortnight before, who was imprisoned in chains in the castle, and his letters read by a Maltese renegado.  I found here a Portuguese, who had arrived from Ormus only two days before me.  The pacha made us wait here twenty days for a sabandar of his.

The 16th of January, 1616, we passed the river Tigris, and lay on the skirt of the desert.  The 17th we travelled five agatzas, being leagues or parasangs.  The 18th we came to the Euphrates at Tulquy, where merchandize disembarked for Bagdat, after paying a duty of five per cent. passes to the Tigris, and thence to the Persian gulf.  After a tedious journey, partly by the river Euphrates, and partly through the desert, and then by sea, we arrived at Marseilles, in France, on the 15th April, and on the 10th May at Dover.

SECTION IV.