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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![of the Khurásán province. Bávard slands at the foot of mountains that were at this season covered with snow: the climate is very cold: the city has no wall and it lies out in the plain. They provided us here with fresh horses and provisions for the way; we enjoyed their hospitality and remained here that Sunday of our coming, also Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following. On Thursday the 25th of December Christmas day, which was the firáf day of the year of our Lord 1405, we left Bávard passing on through high mountain lands, everywhere covered with snow, and this part of our journey lasted five days, crossing a country almost entirely uninhabited, the weather being now very cold. Then on Thursday the i¿f of January we came to a city lying in the open plain beyond the hill country, the name of which is Kha- bushán; it is unwalled, and here we halted that Thurs¬ day and the Friday following. Khabushán is the firál town in the province of Media. On Saturday the 3rd of January we set out again and our way now lay over the plains. In that diáfriót the weather already was warm, no snow remained on the ground, nor did it freeze at night. We travelled on that Saturday and Sunday and on Monday the 5 th of January reached the town of Jájarm, having come by two villages lying on the roadside thither. Jájarm has no wall round it; and as will be remembered we had already passed there on our outward journey to Samarqand, [whereby we here rejoined our former route]. In Jájarm we álayed the night of our arrival and all next day Tuesday. On Wednesday we set out and all that day travelled through the plains finding no inhabited places. That night we slept at an empty building of considerable size that slood near a ruined caátle; for both this house and this caátle had been abandoned and lay desolate. Thursday again we went on finding no inhabited homeáfead, but that evening we came at laát to a 3°4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0336.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
