The principal navigations voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English nation - made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse (14761973964)

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Title: The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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sse the river Euphrates fromBir to Feluchia, there are certein places which you mustpasse by, where you pay custome certaine medines upona bale, which custome is belonging to the sonne ofAborise king of the Arabians and of the desert, whohath certaine cities and villages on the river Euphrates. Feluchia and Babylon. Eluchia is a village where they that come from Birdoe unbarke themselves and unlade their goods, andThe olde it is distant from Babylon a dayes journey and an halfe Babylon hath by land : Babylon is no great city, but it is very popu-great trade Iqus, and of great trade of strangers because it is a w^ marchants , r r -n • --r 1 • j a u* j still great thorowrare tor rersia, 1 urkia, and Arabia : and very often times there goe out from thence Carovansinto divers countreys : and the city is very copious ofvictuals, which comme out of Armenia downe the riverof Tygris, on certaine Zattares or Raffes made of blowenhides or skinnes called Utrii. This river Tygris doeth 368 F^
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CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 1563-81. wash the walles of the city. These Raffes are boundfast together, and then they lay boards on the aforesaydblowen skinnes, and on the boards they lade the com-modities, and so come they to Babylon, where theyunlade them, and being unladen, they let out the windeout of the skinnes, and lade them on cammels to makeanother voyage. This city of Babylon is situate in thekingdome of Persia, but now governed by the Turks.On the other side of the river towards Arabia, overagainst the city, there is a faire place or towne, and init a faire Bazarro for marchants, with very many lodgings,where the greatest part of the marchants strangers whichcome to Babylon do lie with their marchandize. Thepassing over Tygris from Babylon to this Borough isby a long bridge made of boates chained together with ^ i^^dgegreat chaines : provided, that when the river waxeth ^^^^^ of boats.great with the abundance of raine that falleth, then theyopen the bridge in the middle, where the