'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.' [‎118] (789/1024)

A Voyage to Kachenjire.
Caya-lkis, with a peculiarwhich is a ftreet of fmall Tents for the lowerfort of
people that follows the Array, *md furniHieth the Carap with Forage, Grains, Rice'
Butter, and the other things that are raoft neceitary ^ whereby they are fo accommoda
ted, that they need not always go to the Royal Bazars^ where generally all things are
to be found as in the Capital City. Each Bazar is marked at the two ends by two Canes
planted in the ground, which are ast all as thofe of the. Royal Bazars, that fo at a good
di/iance the particular Standards fahned to to them maybe difcovered, andthefeve-
ral quarters diftinguilh’t from one another.
The Great Omrahs and Rafts affed to have their Tents very high. But they muff
beware Jed th^y be too high, becaufe it may happen, that thriving, paffing by, might
perceive it, and command them to be thrown down i of which we have feen an ex
ample in this lad march. Neither mud they be altogether red from without, fince
thofe of the King alone are to be fo. Ladly, out of refped they mud all look towards
the Am-lyts, or the Quarter of the King.
The rdidue of the fpace between the Kings Quarter, and thofe of the Omrahs and the
Bazars, istaken up by the Tents-of the Manfeh- 'dars or little Omrahs, and of that infi
nite nurriber of great and fmall Merchants that follow the Armyiof all thofe that belong
to the Law i and ladly, of all fuch as ferve both the Artilleries : Which maketh indeed a
prodigious number of Tents, and requixetha very great extent of ground. Yetitis
not all true what is faid of either of them. And I believe, that when the whole Ar
my is in a fair and even Campagne .where it may encamp with esfe, and that, follow
ing the ordinary plot, it conies at length to be lodged, as near as maybe, in around (as
we have often fcen it does, upon this road) the compafs of it will not beabove two
Leagues, or two Leagues and an half i and with all this there will yet be left here and
there feveral void places. But then the great Artillery, which taketh up a great trad of
ground, very often a day or two go before.
Nor is all true, whart is faid of the drange confufion, which commonly driktsan
adonifhment into all new comers. For a little acquaintance with the method of the
Army, and feme heeding of the order obferved in the Camp, will foon enable one to
avoid all embarafment, and to go to and fro about his bufinefs, and to find his quarter
again j forafmuch as every one regulateth himfelf by the King's Quarter, and the par
ticular Tents and Standards of the Omrahs, that may be feen afar off, and by the Stan
dards and Perriwigs of the Royal Bazars, which may alfo be feen at a great didance.
Yet for all thefe marks it will fometimes fall out, that one Qiall beextreamly per
plexed, and even rn the day time, but efpecially in the morning, when a world of
people do arrive, and every one of thofe is bufie and feeks to ledge himfelf: And that
not only, becaufe there is often raifed fo great a duff, that the King’s Quarter, the
Standards fif the Bazars and the Omrahs (which might ferve for guides) cannot be
difeover’d : But becaufe a man finds himfelf between Tents that are putting up, and be
tween cords, which the leffer Omrahs, that have no Peicbe-kane, and the ManfeVdars
ffretch out to mark tlreir lodgings, and to hinder, that no way rnay be made nigh
them, or that no unknown perfon may come to lodge near their Tents, whereoften
they have their Women : If in this cafe you mean to get by on one fide, you will find the
wayef; obfirudfed by thofe ffretched-out cords,|which a troup of mean Serving-rneti
handing there with big cudgels, will not fuffer to be lower'd, to fuffer the Baggage to
pafs l if you will turn back, you’l find the wayes (hut fince you pafTed. Andbereit is,
where you muff cry out, fform, intreat, make as if you would ftrike, and yet well be
ware of doing fo, leaving the men, as well as you can, to quarrel againff one another,
and aider wards to accord them for fear of feme mifehief j and in fhort, to put your felf
into all imaginable poftures to get away thence, and to make your Camels pafs: But
the great trouble (s, when a man is obliged to go in an evening to a place fomewhat re
mote, hccaufe that thofe offenfive fmoaks of the fire of green Wood, ofCowfhares,
of Capie,1-dung, which the common people then make in their kitchins, doraifea
miff ( efpecially when there is no wind) fo thick, thatyou can fee nothing at all. I have
been three or four times furprized with it, fo as not to know what to do. Well might
I ask the way , I knew not whither I went, and I did nothing but turn. Once, amor!g
other times, I was conftrained to flay fiill this miff pafTed, and the Moon rifen. And
another time l was forced to get to the Aguacy-die, todye down at the foot thereof, ana
there to pafs all the night as well as I could, having my Servant and Horfe by me.
This Aguacy-dk is like a tall Maff, but very flender, whichcan.be taken down in three