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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![ca¿l anchor in this port. Here the ship remained that day also Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday following, by reason that the captain had to disembark certain jars of olive oil and other merchandise. Malaga city ¿lands in the plain and adjacent to the sea. Within the city circuit is a point of land that juts into the sea whereon is a high built cattle ¿landing on a mound, the whole enclosed by a double wall. Outside the town is another caátle, greater in size and height, which is known as the Alcazaba, and from that inner caátle to the one outside extend double walls running together throughout. Below and outside the town, and where another headland is jutting out into the sea, there are the dockyards and arsenal: and beyond these again an enclosing wall ¿tarts that goes back from the sea front with many towers in its circuit. This wall encircles many fine orchards belonging to the city; and beyond these far at the back rises a high mountain range on the slopes of which lie many home- ¿teads, with vineyards and orchards. Along the ¿trand between the sea-shore and the city wall are built ¿lores that are warehouses for merchandise, and the town itself is very densely populated. The following Wednesday which was the [30th] of May the carrack made sail from Malaga, coa¿ling along the shore below the mountain range, whose slopes were beset with cornlands vineyards and orchards. Next we came to Velez Malaga, a high built ca¿lle ¿landing on the mountain flank, and then passed Almuñecar, a town lying down by the shore of the sea, and by nightfall we were in sight of and sailing under the range of the Sierra Nevada. Next day Thursday the ship was abrea¿l of Cape Palos, which is off Cartagena, and on Friday we doubled Cape Martin at the base of a high mountain range which is of the province of Catalonia [in the kingdom of Aragon]. Saturday at dawn we were abreaál of an uninhabited island that is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
