'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎169] (190/448)

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their graves-fo deep in the fides of Rocks and Mountains, that they were ufually let
down by cords or other like device many fathoms, the Corps being firft embalmed.
Thefe People are for the moft part Mechanicks or Husband-men i few of them either
Scholars, Soldats or Soldagars, as they term their Merchants: Their habit varies but
little from the common mode, fave that their head-piece is fafhioned to the garb of
tfyrcania. Their Women ftiew their faces ( a thing in thefe parts very rare: ) and their
apparel and hair is tindured with yellow ( refembling the burnilhed embroidery of the
Sun*,) for a flame-coloured fcarf hangs loofe behind them, of ufe amongft the
Women, as Luc an. lib. 2.
Her face wanted a yellow Vail to hide
The amorous blujhes of a jhame-fac'd Bride
And in his 3. lib-
Whofe hair and cloaths with fajfron colour df d.
Croceomedicamine crinem Fluxa coloratiSjCSV?
And by the Per fa more efteem'd of than other colours, from its refembling the Sun their
Deity. Howbeit, many of them (either out of zeal or poverty) go bare-foot ^ for
they ufe neither fhooes nor fandals. The Portuguez, Friers alfo have two Houfes here, and
are of the Rules of Carmel and Augufiin: their Chappel is neatly gilt and adorned with
ornaments, as Organs, Altars, Crucifixes, Images, Candles, d-c. with which they en
deavour to convert Men to the Papacy: but for the Armenians^ they are fpedators rather
than auditors, and love no innovation •, and the Perfiansytis their principle to contemn
Images: neverthelefs they arc of fome ufe, feeing they ufuaily ferve to fend Intelligence
to Goa and other parts of Chrifiendom.
We entred Spahawn the tenth of April, and on May day departed thence towards the
Court which was then at Ajharaffin Monendram^hout four hundred miles diftant North
wards from Spahawn.
Our firft nights journey was to Reegue ( or Keig) an hours riding from Spahawn.
Thence-forward (by reafon of the incomparable heat) we were forced to travel in the
night, all day refreihing our felves in the Carravans-raws *, good refting places when
gnats forbad it not. From Reegue we travelled to Sardahan (called Sarraca by Ptolomy lib.
6. cap. 2-) fixteen Englijh miles thence *, and next night we made Whomg our Manzeil,
being feven and twenty miles from Sardahan. Next we came to Tawgebaut, a Houfe and
Garden of the Kings, which for beauty and fweetnefs is comparable to any other in
Parthia •, and the more obfervable for that it is feated in a barren fandy foil.
The hinging Rofe grows here ! the Violet
And Parthian Myrtle in choice order fet!
Hie Rofa purpureo crefcit rubicunda colore, 1
Et Viola: omne genus hie eft, & Parthiea Myttus,
And for five hundred paces every way gives a pleafant prolped of molt forts of Trees
familiar to that climate as alfo of P erf an fruits and flowers,^. Pomgranates,Peaches,
Apricocks, Plums, Apples, Pears, Cherries, Chefnuts, Damask, red and white Rofes,
Tulips and others flowers in great variety 5 watered with ftreams> beautified with arti
ficial Grots, having alfo Hummums of ftone paved with white Marble: The Mohul or
Summer-lodge brags alfo of a dozen Chambers which were delightful to the view, rich
in imbofments of gold and paint of various colours, and proud in the Archited: fo as
it will eafily be granted. That Architedure, Sculpture and Painting are in moft parts of
the World now, and have been, and ever will be in efteem with Princes and People beft
bred and mod ingenious. And all this coft is fafeguarded from fand and ftealth by a
defenfive wall, fo high as hinders (fave in one rifing artificial hillock which is raifed in
midft of the fix defcents ) the affrighting fight of a circumvolving Wildernefs. A Tra
veller is not to imagine pleafure his objed for pain and mifery will entertain him
oftneft: otherwife 1 could have lull'd my felf in this Paradife *, and, ( as Mioca the Ara
bian vidor after a ferious view leaving CW/^Jfigh out this Farewel, Eheu Tawgebaugh!
qua & manta tm funt delicU ? But on we muft to try the difference.
From Tawrebagh next night we came to Bawt, which was fix farfangs or eighteen Eng-
lijh miles diftant •, nothing memorable, fave an old Caftle in the way, which by reaion
of the darknefs of the night we could hardly difcover. From Bawt we got by break of
day to Obigarmy: both thefe are the King's Houfes *, who ufing this road, has at every
twelve miles end a Lodge betwixt Spahawn and the Cajpian Sea, wherein our Ambafla-
dour had the honour to repofe and found reafonable good accommodation. And now
the danger is paft, let me tell you, moft part of the laft night we croft over an inho-
Z fpitable