'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.' [‎125] (444/1024)

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Travels in I n
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Idolaters beyond all meafure; and if any one ofthem embrace ’tis onlv
becaufe they would not work any longer. For they turn Souldiers or
who are a fort of people that profefs a renunciation of the VVorld,and live upon
A ™ v tajre indeed very Rafcals. 1 hey reckon that there are in hd.a 8 oo 5 oo
ortheie Mahmman Tayurs, and twelve hunderd-thonfand Idolaters
Once in fifteen days the King goes a Hunting,mounted upon his Elephant,and
fo continues during the chafe. All the Game he takes is brought within Musket-
ftot of his Elephants Which tonfifts generally ofLions^igfrs,Harts,and w,Id-
Goats. For they will not meddle with Boars, as being When he
returns home, he puts himfelf into his Pxlleki, and goes in the fame order, ard
with the fame Guard, as when he returns from the Mofquee, ravine that when he
goes a Hunting he is attended with three or four-hunder’d Horfemen that ride
without any aifcipline in the World. * 5
As forthe Princefies, as well the Wives, Daughters and Sifters of the King,
they never ftir out of the Palace, unlefs it be to fpend a few days in the Countrey
[ or , cleir P' c ^ure. Some of them go abroad, but very rarely,to viiit fome great
Noble-mens Wives,as the Wife of who is the King’s Aunt. But that
is only by particular leave ofthe King. And then it is not the cuftom as in Pertia
where the Ladies make their vifits only by night, and with a great number of
Eunuchs, who clear the Streets of all people they meet. For in the Mount's
Court they ufually go out about nine in the morning, with only three or four
Eunuchs, and ten or twelve Slaves, which are inftead of Maids ofHonour.
The Princefles are carri’d in Palleh?s cover’d oyer with Embroider’d Taneftrv
and a htttle Coach to hold one fingle perfon that follows the drawn bv
two men, the wheels not being above a foot in diameter. The reaion why they
carry that Coach along with them, is,becaufe that when the Princelfes arrive at
the Houfe where they intend to alight, the men that carry the Palliti. not being
permitted to go any farther than the firft Gate,they then take their Coaches,and are
drawn by their female-Slaves to the Womens Apartment. I have alfo ohferv’d
‘ tet J n , all , th ® Houfes of great Noble-men, the Womens Apartment is at thefarf
tner ^nd ol all. So that you mult crofs two or three great Courts, and a Garden
or two, before you can come at it.
.,Kw hM n t ! 1 a Pn r Cef r es , are raarried t0 an 7 of the Court-Grandees,they become
abfoluteM'ftreftes of their Husbands , fo that if they ftudy not to pleafe them,
a ? t l ey * ould have them > ^ regard of their freeaccefsto the King
ou/ofIhefr Em^yment” 3117 timeS “ their prejudice > even t0 the turain S thenl
t!l A s “ * s , a cu ^ om the firft-born always is Heir to the Throne,though he be
, . 2 Slave, lb loon as the Pnncefles of the King’s Hardm perceive that
° ne ?? lon S t h em big with Child, they ufe all the artifices imaginable
V 5 ^ hem mifcar £y-,, Infomuch that being at Vatna in the year i666Aa-Eft-
irurgeon afiiir d me, that the Wife of had procur’d the
but kr own ° f eight Women ’ becaure ^ vvould ^fier no other Womens Children
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