'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.' [‎51] (370/1024)

Book I.
Travels in India
he was very much in the Kings favour, who had confer’d upon him many fair
Commands, though he could never either by threats or promifes win him to
turn Mahometan.
CHAP. VilL
the Road from Agra to Patna, and Daca, Cities in the Province of
Bengala, and of the Quarrel which the Author had with Cha-Eft-
Kan, the Kings Vnckle.
| Departed from Agra toward Rcngdu the 15th of November 1665, and that
1 day I reach’d no farther than a very bad Inn, diftant from Agra, coftes 3
The 26th I came to Beraz.abad^ coltes p
This is a little City where,at my return,! received eight thoufand Roupies,being
the remainder of the Money which GiaferMian ow’d me for Wares that he had
bought at Janabat.
The 27th to Serael Morlides^ coftes p
The 28^ to Serail Eflanja^ coftes 14
The 29th to Serail Haii^malj coftes i±
The 30th. to Serail Sekandera j coftes 13
Ihe ift of December to Sanqaal^ coftes
I met that day 11 oWaggons, every Waggon drawn by fixOjcen 5 & in every Waggon
ffoooo Roupies. This is the Revenue of the Provinceof ^^^/^,with all charges de-
iraid,and the Governor’s Purfe well-fill’d, comes to 5,500000 Roupies. A league
beyond Sanqml jjou muft pafs a River call’d Saingour^ which runs into Gemine, not
above half a league diftant from it. You pafs over this River of Saingour upoil
a Stone-bridg, aijd when you come from toward Bengala to go to Seronge or Sh-
rat, if you have a mind to Ihorten your journey ten days, you muft leave Agra-
Road, and come to this Bridg, and fo Ferry ovzv Gemine in a Boat. But generally
%^-Road is taken, becaufe the other way you muft travel five or fix days to
gether upon the ftones \ and alfo for that you are to pafs through the Territories
oi certain Raja King 's, where you are in danger of being robb’d.
The fecond day I came to an Inn call’d Cherourabad, coftes 12
When you are got about half the way, you pafs through Gianabad, a little
fity, near to which, about a quarter of a League on this fide, crofllng a Field
of Millet, I faw a Rhinoceros feeding upon Millet-Canes, which a little Boy
or nine or ten years old gave him to eat. \ When I came near the Boy, he
gave me fome Millet to give the Rhinoceros ^ who immediately came to me^open-
mg his chops three or four times; I put the Millet into his mouth, and when he
had fwallow’dit, he ftill open’d his mouth for more.
The 3^ I came to Serrail Chajeada^ coftes 10*
The /Sfth to Serrail Atakan, cofles 13
The yh to Aureng-Abad, cofles p
Formerly this Village had another name } but being the place where Aureng-
wv gave Battel to his Brother Saltan Sajah, w r ho was Governor of all the Pro
vince of Bengala j Aareng-z^eb, in Memory of the Vidory he had won, gave it
ms own name, and built there a very fair Houfe, with a Garden, and a little
Mofcjaee.
The 6th to Alinehan, coftes p
^ Two leagues on this fide Alin chan, you meet the River Ganges. Mon fie nr Ber-
^ the King’s Phylltian, and another perfon whofe name was Racheyot, with
• * travell’d, were amaz’d to fee, that a River had made fuch a noife:
ne World, was no broader than the River before the LOvre } be-
eving before, that pt had been as wide as the Danaw above Belgrade. There is
wiU ° k ^ water ^ rom March to Jane or July, when the rains fall, that it
' ilot k ear a final 1 Boat. When we came to Ganges, we drank every one of us a
. - ' * H 2 Glafs