Note 065
See the translation of the Persian account of
their embassy, a curious and original piece, (in the ivth
part of the Relations de Thevenot.) They presented the
emperor of China with an old horse which Timour had formerly
rode. It was in the year 1419 that they departed from the
court of Herat, to which place they returned in 1422 from
Pekin.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 65