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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![to oblivion and be lo£fc. Therefore in the name of God, in whose hands all things reál, and to the honour of the moáf Blessed Virgin Mary His mother, I began to write this account from the day when we, the ambassa¬ dors reached Port St Mary over against Cadiz. Here we had intent of embarking in a carrack0 on which we should set sail, and returning home in our company was that ambassador from the lord Timur who had been sent to our king as already álated above. Monday the 2iáf of May of the year of our Lord 1403 we the ambassadors, as aforesaid, arrived at the Port St Mary, and on that same day we despatched certain provisions that were brought with us to be taken across [the bay of Cadiz] and carried aboard the carrack in which we were to sail, these provisions being in addition to what had just been sent in charge of certain of our servants, and already embarked, coming from Seville and Jerez. The following day Tuesday the 22nd of May we, therefore, took passage in a barque, and with us went Messer Julian Centurio the captain of that carrack in which we were all to journey together, and we passed across the bay to the harbour of Las Muelas which is at Cadiz where the carrack was lying. Then on Wednesday, next day, we set sail in the carrack, leaving the shores of Spain, the weather being favourable, and by nightfall were off Cape Spartel. On the morrow Thursday the ship had come abreast of Tangier, with the mountains on the Barbary coaáf; and thence lay across towards Tarifa Point and Ximena and having passed Ceuta came to Algeciras and Gibraltar. Then to Marbella, and pa¿t all these coaáfs we sailed so near that we could perceive clearly the towns lying at the foot of the mountain range which here borders the Straits, for that same day we were up with the hills known as the Sierra de la Fi. Friday which was the 25th day of May, when the day dawned clear we found ourselves off Malaga,' and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
