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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![prize. It is his cuálom never to receive any persons who do not come with a gift, and the firál thing enquired of us on this occasion when we arrived at his camp was whether we had brought anything to present to him, and they demanded that we should show them what it was we had brought. On Tuesday the [ 18 th] of Auguál Prince Omar beálowed on us various pieces of cloth as his gift, and appointed to us [a Chagatay] one of his men who should attend on us, as likewise on our fellow ambassador the envoy from the Turkish Sultan, to aól as our guide during the journey forward. In regard to the ambassadors of the Sultan of Egypt these men the Prince ordered should yet be detained, and as we heard they were next day thrown into prison. It was that same Tuesday that we and the Turks thus took our departure from the camp of Prince Omar and next day Wednesday reached Tabriz again, where we and the Turkish Envoys took counsel together as to how and by what way we should arrange our journey, for we now hoped to set forth without any further delay. On the evening of the Friday however we having made everything ready to leave Tabriz, the Daroghah, or as one might say the city Mayor, appeared accompanied by the police and his secretaries with much folk in attendance armed with maces and clubs, and the Mayor demanded that we should bring out and show him all our baggage, further this was said with such an air of authority that we were fain to comply. Then no sooner did he see certain ¿luffs of the Zaytúní silk and the Chinese kincob with the scarlet cloth and the like that we had in ¿lore, than he impounded these bales, saying that his Highness had need of them, seeing that in the province there was utter lack of any of all such good ware. Then he added the Prince would pay us the juál price in detain¬ ing these goods, and on this he and his men mounted and made off. On this we having sought the counsel](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0360.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
