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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![called Formentera, and already were in sight of the island of Ibiza, and coming up with it passed all that Saturday with Sunday Monday and Tuesday following lying off and on the coaál unable to double the head¬ land to reach the port, for the wind was at all times contrary. On that Tuesday night however at laát we made the port [of Ibiza], and this day was the 5th of June. Here the captain discharged much cargo that he had brought, and took other cargo aboard, loading up with salt, and the ship lay here from the Tuesday of our arrival all Wednesday Thursday and Friday being unable to get away, for a head wind was blowing againál us. Indeed it was not till Wednesday the 13th of June that we were able to set sail. But then both the following days Thursday and Friday it fell calm so that we made but little way. Ibiza is but a small island being five leagues in the length by three in the breadth. On the same day that the ship reached the island we three ambassadors landed, and the governor, who is in charge, being thereto appointed by the king of Aragon, ordered a lodging forthwith to be prepared for us. Further he sent down men and horses to bring us up to the town. The whole island is a mass of high mountains, with the lower slopes covered by pine foreéls. The chief town is very populous and ¿lands on a great hillock which overlooks the sea. The town is enclosed by three walls, and in the space between every two they have built many houses. There is a caálle, with high towers and an encircling wall, on the summit of the hill within the town at the point above the sea, and facing the caálle is the church, opposite, which has a very lofty tower that, so to speak, matches the caálle. Beyond outside the town and the caálle there is further another outer town wall. Throughout the island of Ibiza are found many salt-pans where much salt is produced, of a very fine quality. This is gathered at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
