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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![the close of the summer season, being produced by the evaporation of the sea water that has been let in. These salt-pans give a good revenue, for yearly many ships come hither from the Levant, and load up with cargoes of this salt. Within the town limits there ¿lands a tower, wherein are many chambers, which is known as the Tower of Avicenna:8 for they say that Avicenna was a native of this island of Ibiza. In the town walls and on their towers may be seen many marks of the cannon-balls which the late king Don Pedro IV of Aragon discharged against this place when he was laying siege to the island [to eje61 the Barbary Moors]. On the following Saturday which was the [i 6th] of June we were at the hour of none [three p.m.] coasting the island of Majorca, so near indeed that we could perfeblly perceive the folk on the country-side, and by Sunday following were passing an island that is called Cabrera, where there is a small ca¿lle. Monday and Tuesday we made very little way because the wind was light, but that Wednesday we were abrea¿l of the island of Minorca, and thence sailing on entered the Gulf of Lyons. Thursday, Friday and Saturday we passed crossing that Gulf, and profited by good weather so that by Sunday, which was St John’s Day [the 24th of June] we had come up with an island which is called Linera [or Asinara to the N.W. of Sardinia] which is who is of the dominion of the Viceroy of Aragon the governor of Sardinia]. On Monday at dawn we found ourselves sailing through the ¿Irait between the two islands of Corsica and Sardinia; and on the island of Corsica ¿lands a ca¿lle that bears the name of Boni¬ facio which belongs to a certain Genoese lord: while opposite on the island of Sardinia is another ca¿lle that is called Longosardo which belongs to the Catalans [and is of Aragon]. These two cables aforesaid, of those islands of Corsica and Sardinia, ¿land on the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
