'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.' [‎152] (193/1024)

TheV e r s i a n T ravels Book 1 V.
one caU’d Hedari, the other Nametlat i and upon all the Combats of Beafts btforc-
mention’d, there are always very confiderable Wagers laid bet ween thefe twoTtii*,
The King, who is a neuter, gives to the Mafter oftheBeaft tnat gets the up^
hand fometimes five,fometimes teniometimes twenty according to thevaL
of the Wager laid and he that wins the Wager, prefents the Mafter 0 f the
Beaft likewife. They have alfo a Sport at breaking of Egg, by knocking the ends
one againft another, feme of which Eggs come to three or four Crowns. The
Hens that lay them are bred in a Country which they call Saufevare, about ahu n .
dred leagues from Ijpahan^ toward the Province oi Karafan > the Cocks of which
Country are bigger and ftronger than other Cocks,and coft iorne of them a hundred
Crowns. There are a fort of Tumblers alfo, that after Dinner fet up their Stages i n
the MeydaH) and toward theEvening, they that play^ the Maid-Marians come anden>
compafs a fquare place with a ccurfe piece of Calicut * and then through another
very fine Cloth, the Wenches (hew a thoufand tumbling Tricks and antick Pollures,
When they have done, they come and ask the Spedlators for Money, who give them
every one what they think fit. Every Friday, wh ch is asit were Market-day, the
Country-folks bring to Town what they have made in the Villages, as Doors and
Windows fitted to be hung up, Window-frames, Locks, and other things of that
nature. Upon that day alfo they fell Mules, Korfes, Camels, and Affes, which brings
a great confluence of people from all parts.
Upon the Weft-fide, where ftands the Gate of the Palace, and Alts Gate, he.
tween the Canal and the Vertms are rang'd feme feyenty Pieces of Cannon upon
their Carriages. Thefe Guns, together with the Sun-Dial, were brought frcrnOmM
by the Great Sba-Abas, of which the ought to have had their (hare Tor with
out their affiftance he never could have tak’n the Town.
From the corner of that Front, which touches upon the Eafiern Front of the
f/lofquee, in the middle, are all Sadlers Shops i and from that Mofquee toanothei
corner that touches upon the Weftern Front, live the Book-Sellers, Book-binders,
and Trunk-makers. In the middle of the Southern Front Bands a Portal, wttha
Tower upon each fide, which leads to a Mofquee, the Gate whereof is cover’d all
Over with Plates of Silver, aud is certainly the neateft Portal and fairef! Entrance
into any Mofquee of Perfta,
At the other end of the fame Front, where it joyns to that upon the Weft, there
is a great Portal that leads to a falfe Gate of the King’s Palace j near to which; as
foon as you are enter’d;-you meet with the Apartment of the Great Treafurer,
who is a white Eunuch, and having the Keys of the Chamber where the Money lyes,
takes care to pay what-ever the King orders him. Through that falfe Gate all the
King’s Provilions are carry’d into the Palace. This way alfo enter they that are
entertained for the Manufa&ory of the King’s Tiffues, Silks, Sattins, Coverlets,and
the like. In the fame Enclofure alfo the Frankj, who are under the King’s Wages,
and live at Zulpha, come every day to work j as alfo all the moft particular and
eminent Artifts that the King hires.
The Weftern Front, which makes one of the two lengths of the Meydan, is thus
appointed j from the Southern angle that touches the Trunk-maker’s quarter, live
all your Pedlers that fell all the fmall Commodities of Norimberg and Venice.
As for the King’s Palace, I cannot make any handfom deferipfion of it, in regard
there is nothing of Beauty either in the Building or in the Gardens. I think !
have be^n as far in the Houfe as a man could go, every time I was fent for by Bis
Majefty but excepting only four Rooms which they call Divans, I faw notfiipg
bnrpitiful low Galleries, and fo narrow that hardly two mendpuld pafs a-breftin
’em. In one of thofe Galleries I had audience of the King, in the Garment oi
Honour which he had beftow’d upon me. But In regard I have fpok’n of two of
them in another place, and that the ether two are much alike both Building and
Furniture, I (hall fay no more of them here.
From the King’s Palace Gate to Ffo/y’sGate live the Gold fmiths,Lapidaries, and
Gravers of Stones for Seals; Halys Gate is a plain Gate, naked of Work: of
which I have already fpok\i*
Between Hal/s Gate, and the other angle of the fame Weftern Front, lh(d 5
a great Gate which leads into a Bazar, where all the Armenians that live at
keep their Shops,and fell all forts of Cloth that comes out of Europe, and other { ne
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