Therefore we become fifteen months before the feast of all Saints (we
elizabeth., sixteenth Oct [J: Oct. 18th]) toward Sarai, heading due southern area, and you may descending along side Etilia, which splits lower than there towards three great twigs, each one of that is almost twice as highest once the lake out-of Damietta. The others (of your own river) variations four lesser twigs, to ensure that i crossed that river from inside the eight cities by-boat. For the middle department was an urban area called Summerkeur, that’s in place of structure; nevertheless when the new river is during ton it’s enclosed by h2o. Getting 7 years this new Tartars was doing it in advance of they got it. So there was in fact Alans inside, and you may Saracens. Bullet throughout the such pieces Baatu is on one to area of the river and you will Sartach on the other side on Christmas time; in addition they go perhaps not down one further. Therefore happens that the whole river freezes more, and it ticket round the.
I found truth be told there an effective German together with his wife, in which he is actually the right worthwhile kid, with who Gosset got avoided; having Sartach had delivered him here so you’re able to clear their ordu out of him
When the dad of Coiac gotten the letter of Sartach, the guy gave me straight back my personal vestments, excepting around three albs, an enthusiastic amice stitched for the silk, good stole, a great girdle, a gold-fringed altar material and you will a great surplice; he gave me right back in addition to the gold vases, aside from a great censer and you may a small vase where was holy oils, which latter anything the new priests who were with Sartach had leftover. He provided me with right back brand new instructions, apart from the fresh new Psalter from my female the brand new queen, which he left with my consent; I am able to maybe not refute they him, for he told you it could excite Sartach greatly [J: to possess the guy asserted that Sartach was definitely removed that have it]. He and expected me personally, but if I should get back by doing this, to bring one focusing on how and then make parchment. He was making, of the acquisition out of Sartach, a big chapel and you will a new community on west bank of lake, and you can desired, he said, and then make books to possess Sartach’s play with. I’m sure, however, one to Sartach cares perhaps not to own might be found [J: even though I me was conscious that Sartach doesn’t have returning to may be]. Sarai while the castle off Baatu take the fresh new eastern coast, plus the area through which move these types of branches of the river is more than 7 leagues large, as there are a good quantity of seafood truth be told there. The versified Bible and you will a book when you look at the Arabic, well worth thirty bezants, and lots of anything, I didn’t come back.
Making they (we.e., Sarai) up coming to the banquet of the many Saints (initially November), and you can going always southern area, we reached of the feast away from Saint Martin (fifteenth December [J: Dec. 13th]) brand new mountains of your own Alans. Ranging from Baatu and Sarai, to possess fifteen weeks we receive no body rescue one of his true (we.e., Baatu’s) sons preceding him (south) with his hawks and hawkers, who had been very multiple. From the meal of all Saints for ten [J: five] weeks we located not one person, there was in fact 2 days [J: twenty four hours and you can every night] on what i nearly died from thirst: to have a complete day and you can per night, and you can day adopting the on the third hr, we didn’t find one water.
In the right here there was very higher a lot of pasturage, and you may (brand new Tartars) live among reeds before freeze actually starts to thaw
This new Alans within these slopes still wait around facing (this new Tartars), therefore Sartach has had to transmit a couple out of each and every ten guys to hang the fresh new mouths of your defiles [i.age., passes], lest they are available aside and lift its cows throughout the plains. Among them, the brand new Alans therefore the Metal Gate, that’s 2 days thence, and you can in which begins new simple of Arcacc. Amongst the ocean together with slopes is Saracens entitled Lesgi, (who happen to live) on mountains and you can which along with withstand (the fresh new Tartars) [J: Between these types of Alans and the Metal Door, hence place 2 days travels out-of indeed there, within point where in actuality the plan actually starts to thin involving the sea plus the mountains, you’ll find Saracens known Klik as Lesgi traditions among the highs]; therefore, the Tartars from the root of the hills of Alans needed to provide us with twenty people so you’re able to companion all of us past the Metal Door. Hence pleased me much, for We hoped observe them not as much as fingers; to own I’d not ever been capable of seeing their fingers, even in the event very stressed to. When we concerned a dangerous passing, from the twenty (only) a few got [breastplates]. I asked him or her the way they came by the her or him, and additionally they told you that they had had him or her from the Alans, that happen to be a manufacturers of these one thing, and sophisticated music artists. That it generally seems to me personally that they have couples arms but arrows and bows and you may fur clothing. We spotted provided to him or her metal dishes and you can metal hats regarding Persia, and that i noticed one or two who’d arrive at promote themselves prior to Mangu, equipped with jackets out of convex bits of tough leather, which were extremely not fit and unwieldy.