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at the beginning and toward the end of his captivity. He
described the sites, events, and prominent personalities
of Sebastia/Sivas, Samson, Erzinjan, Xlat', Maku and
Saxijewan during the times of Bayazid, Timur and Tlmur's
son Shahrukh. In addition he discoursed on the Apostolic
religion of the Armenians, on St. Gregory (the Illuminator
of Armenia), and on Graeco-Armenian tensions. He described
his co-religionists, the Armenian Catholics of Kaxi3ewan,
in whom he apparently took much comfort and with whom he
seems to have remained a sufficient amount of time to have
picked up the unusual amount of lore found in his account.
The book ends with the Lord's Prayer given in translitterated
Armenian and Mongolian .
The fourth and final traveller considered is Buy
Gonzalez de Clavijo, whose Embassy to Tamerlane is a
first-rate account of his three year journey as ambassador
to king Henry III of Spain in 1403-1*06 from Cadiz in
Spain to Timur-Khan in Samarkand, and back. Enroute to
the East, Clavijo passed fros Trebizond to Erzinjan to
Erzerum, Surmari, Ararat, Maku and Khoy, frequently lodging
in villages. On his return from Samarqand he visited
1 The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger.
T TI •*-•"'—., trans. (London, 1679J.
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