'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎44] (77/1024)

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The Persian ‘travels Book I.
along with me, and complain’d to the iStaz^ar : He teftifi’d his lorrow for what had
Happen’d, and gave us evident Proofs thereof, by the blows which he caus’d to be
laid upon thofe that had done me the injury.
Another time, -Sha'Sefi being upon his return from Cuilan^ his Tents were
fet up near Zulfa in Armenia, where the King ftaid to hunt two or three days.
Now among the reft of the Courtizans that follow’d the Court, to divertife the
King with Dancing and Mummery, there was one who was perfcftly h^ndfom, to
whom the King had already lent Prefents*, which could not be unknown to any
Lord i’the Court. But the Naz.ar$ Son, for all that, being in the heat of Youth,
got this Courtizan tohis fl Tent, and there lay with her: which came to his Father’s
Ears next day. The whether out of his zeal to the King, or whether it
were an efFe£t of his prudence to prevent the King’s anger,which would have certain
ly been the death of his Son, caus’d him to be drub’d, after the manner of the Coun
try, and baftinado’d all over, till the Nails of his Toes dropt off, and that his Body
was almoft a perfea Geliy. Which when the King underftood, together with the
Young Man’s Crime, he Paid no more, but that the Nazar had done wifely by
; punifhing his Son himfelf, to prevent his Juftice.
But to return to the Road from Kerman tolfpahan. The nrft day that I feCoiit
from Kerman, at my Stage in the Evening 1 met with a rich Moullaio, who feeing
I had Wine, civilly offer’d me fome of his Ice to cool it. In retaliation, I gave
him fome of my Bottle. He invited me to his Houfe, which was well built,
wkh a handfom Garden with Water in it. He entertain’d me with Spoon-meat,
according to the mode of the Country; and when I took my leave, he fill’d my
Baracho with' very good Wine. ^
The following days I faw nothing worthy obfervatioo; the Country being as I
have already delcrib’d it. . -
lyes in the Road, almoft in the mid-way between Kerman and Jfpahafi, m
93 Deg. 15 Min. of Longitude, and 13 Deg. 45 Min. of Latitude. It is a great
Town in the middle of the Sands, that extend themfelves for two Leagues round it:
fothat when you leave Tezd you muft take a Guide, for upon the leaft Wind the
Sand covers the Highway, whereby a man may be apt to fall into Holes, which
feem to have been either old Citterns, or the Ruines of ancient Buildings. Between
the Town and the Sands there is a little good Soil, which produces excellent Fruits,
but above ail. Melons of feveral forts: the Pulp of fome is green, of others yellow
and vermilion ; and fome there are, the meat whereof is as hard as a Renneting.
IThere are alfo very good, Grapes, and good Wine*, but the Governour will not
permit the Inhabitants to make Wine. Some therefore they dry, and of the reft
they make a kind of Confeaion to eat with Bread. There are alfo abundance of
Figs, which are large and well tafted. Theydiftil vaft quantities of Rofe-water,
and another fort of Water with which they dye their Hands and Nails red, which
they fqueeze out of a certain Rocft call’d Hina. There are three Inns iW City,
and feveral Bazars or Market-places cover’d and vaulted, which are full of Mer
chants and Workmens Ware-houfes. They alfo make at Tezd feveral Stuffs
Silk intermix’d with Gold and Silver, which they call 7 and another fort of
Stuff of all pure Silk, call’d tDarai) like our fmooth ftrip’d Taffata’s. Other Stuns
they made, half Silk half Cotton *, others all of Cotton, like our Fuftians. They make
alio Serges of a particular Wool, which is fo fine and delicate, that it looks hanu-
fomer, and is much better than Silk.
, Though I had nothing to do, I Raid in Tezd three days, becauie I met with
tomz Armenians ot ray acquaintance. In which time 1 found the general Opinion
to be true. For certainly the Women of Tezd are the hand fomeft Women in ail
Terfia. There is no Feaft made, but five or fix of them come to diverts fe the Guefts
with Dancing, who are generally none of themeaneft Beauties and Converfations
among them. However it comes to pafs, the Perpan Proverb is, That to live happy f
a Man mufi have a Wife of Yezd, eat the Bread of Yezdecas, and drink the Wine
of Schiras, , , .v ‘b?,. OV - . r