Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction.
- Ruy González de Clavijo
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![being very fertile. When the King of India found himself thus worked in the fight he betook himself to the mountain faStnesses, once more gathering round him his hoSts for battle. Timur however had no mind again to give battle, he assembled his hoSt and all his people, then retired returning to the upper plains of the north whither the King of India saw fit not to follow. But this country of the high mountain plains, which Timur then conquered and took from the King of India, [and which is Afghanistan called India the Less], is now under the government of his grandson the young prince of v/hom we have been speaking. Its southern border extends [down to the shores of the Persian Gulf namely] to Ormuz, which is a very great and rich city. The major part of that India [which is Greater India] the king thereof Still keeps in pos¬ session, and did not lose when defeated at that battle, which we have spoken of, and this took place some twelve years ago. Since then neither Timur nor the Prince his grandson has ever sought again to invade that country. The people of Greater India are Christians for the moSt part as is also their king, but they are of the Greek rite, though among them are found other Christians who mark their faces with fire, and have different beliefs from the reSt.9 These latter folk who bear the mark of fire are looked down upon by their neighbours. Among the Indians Jews and Moors also are to be met with, but these live here in subjeStion to the Christians.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0288.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
