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The people of this country (Hormuz) are black and worship Muhammad.

Kerman is a kingdom of Persia that lies on its eastern border.
And the gentlewomen and their daughters are superb needleworkers, embroidering animals and birds and many other figures on silks of every hue. The curtains they embroider for nobles and great men are so finely and intricately worked that they make a spectacular sight. And they also make exquisite quilts, cushions and pillows.

These kingdoms [of Persia] are full of brutal and bloodthirsty people. They are forever slaughtering one another, and if they were not checked by fear of the authorities, which is to say the Tartar lord of the Levant, they would do great harm to travelling merchants.

In Persia is the city called Saveh from which the three Magi set out when they went to worship Jesus Christ.
I can also tell you that one of the three Magi came from Saveh, one from Hawah, and the third from Kashan.

It is a plain fact that all the Saracens in the world wish great ill to all the Christians in the world.

There is also a race of people who observe the law of Christ but not the rule of the Roman Church, for they are misguided in many points. They are called Nestorians and Jacobites. They have a patriarch whom they call Catholicus; and this patriarch makes archbishops, bishops, abbots and prelates of every degree and sends them in all directions – to India and Cathay and Baghdad – just like the Roman pope.
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I am eternally grateful for this new translation.