'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.' [‎43] (362/1024)

Book I.
Travels in India.
In recompence whereof the Great Mogul gives them Commands in his Armies;
by which they gain much ^ore than they loofe by the tribute which they
Mir da is a great City, but ill-built. When I came thither in one of my Indian-
journeys, ail the Inns were full of Palfengers,in regard that Clja-jehans Aunt,the
Wife of Cha-Eft-Kan, was going that* way to marry her Daughter to Sultan
Sujah, the fecond Son of Cha-jehan , I was forc’d to fet up my Tent upon a Bank,
with Trees on both fides: But I was not a littleTurprizd two hours afterward, to
fee fifteen or twenty Elephants loofe, that tore down the boughs as far as they
could reach, breaking off the huge Arms of Trees, as if they had been but fmall
faggot-fticks- This fpoil was done by the order of the Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. ^ in revenge of the
Affront which the Inhabitants of Mirda had put upon her, who had not waited
on her, and made her a Prefent as they ought to have done.
From Mirda to Boronda, cofles 12
** From Baronda to Coetchkl, coftes T8
From Coetchiel to Bander-Sonnery y cofles 14
From Bandar-Sonnery to Ladona^ cofles 16
From Ladona to Chafou y cofles 12
From Chafou to Nouali, coftes
From Nouah to Hindoo, cofles
nox
if 7
19
From Hindoo to Baniana^ cofles , to
Thefe two laft places are two Towns, where, as in all the Country round
about, they make Indigo-Vht^ which is round ; and as it is the bell of all the /«-
digo's, fo is it double the price. -
From Baniana to Vettafour, cofles qi x 4
Vettafokr is an ancient Town where they make woollen-Hangings.
Fromto cofles > " \ 12
from Saw to is in all, coftes v ^ 4.15
If you could divide your journeys equally into thirteen Cottes a-piece, you
might go to Surat in thirty-three days ; but hecaufe you reft, and flay at feme
places, it is generally thirty-five or forty days journey. ! t i
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Have made an exad defeription of fome part of the Road, and brought tjie
^ ,Reader as far as Candahar , it remains, that I carry him from Candahar
to Agra , to which there are but two ways to go,either through Caboul, or through
Multan. The latter way is the fhorter by ten days journey. But the Ckrh'-'
van never goes that way. For from Candahar to Multan y6u travel almbft all
the way through. Defarts j and fometimes you travel three or four days with
out meeting any water. So that the moft ordinary and beaten Road, is through
Caboid. Now from Candahar to Caboul, is twenty-four days journey; from
Caboul to Labor ^ twenty-two j from Labor to Dehly, or Gehanabat, eighteen }
from Dchly to Agra, fix which with the fixty days journey from Ifpahan to
Bar at, and the twenty from to makes in mil from Ifpahan to
an hundred and fifty days journey. But the Merchants that are in hafle,
take Horfes, three or four together in a company, and fide the whole joufney
in fixty, or fixty-five days at moft. . *
Multan is a City where there is made a vaft quantity 6f Linnen Calicuts,
which was all tranfported to Tuta^ before the Sands had ftop’d up the mouth
°f the River y but lince that, it is carry’d all to Agra, and from Agra to Su-
* at -> as is the greateft part of the Merchandize which is made at Labor. But
ln regard carriage is fo dear, very few Merchants traffick either to Multan or
at Labor ^ and many of the Workmen have alfo defetted thole places, fo that
the Kings Revenues are very much diminifhed iu thofe Provinces* Multan
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