'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.' [‎132] (451/1024)

Traveh in 1 n d i a.
Part II.
is alfo made at uimadabat, where they are perfe&ly skill’d in refining it • f or
which reafon it is call’d Sugar Royal The Sugar-Loaves ufually weigh from
eight to ten pound.
Opium is brought from Bramfonr, a Town of good Trade between Aora and
Surat. The Hollanders buy great quantities, which they truck for their Pep.
per.
Tobacco alfo grows in abundance round about Bramfour •, fometimes there has
been fo much that the Natives have let vaft quantities rot upon the eronnH
for want of gathering. ; ^ ^ J
Coffee grows neither in Terfia nor in India, where it is in no requefi • but
the Hollanders dri v e a great Trade in it, tranfporting it from Or mm into Pet fa
as far as Great Tart ary, from Balfara into C aide a, Arabia, Mefopotamia an d
other Provinces ofTurhy. Itwas'firlt found out by a Hermite, whofe’name
was ScheckcSiadeli, about twenty-years ago, before which time it was never
heard of in any Author either ancient or modern.
Deceits in SilkJVares.
Plain Silk Wares may be alter’d in length, bredth, and quality. The qua
lity fhews it felf when they are of an even thread, when the weight is equal,
and when there is no Cotton thread in the Weft.
The Indians not having the art ofguilding filver, put into their flrip’d
Wares threads of pure Gold, fb that you mull count the quantity of Gold
threads to fee whether the Silk have its due number. And this alfo you rauft
obferve in your Silks woy’n with Silver: As for TafFata’s,your are only to mind
whether the pieces be all of a fiinenefs, and to fee by unfolding fome of them,
that there be nothing within to augment the weight, and then weighing all
the pieces by themfelves, to fee that they all agree.
The colours of thofe Carpetts which are made in India, do not laft fo
long as the colour of thofe which are made jn Berfid ; but for the Workman-
Ihip it is very lovely. The eye of the Broaker is to judg of the largenefs,
beauty, and finenefs of thofe Carpetts which are wrought with Gold aiid
Silver, and whether they be fine and rich. But ( whether they be Carpetts,
or other Stuffs mix’d with Gold and Silver, it behoves the Buyer to pull out
fome of the Gold and Silver Threads, to fee whether they be of the right
value or no.
Deceits in the White Calicuts.
The deceits ufually put upon Galicuts, are in finenefs length, and breadth.
Every Bale may contain two hundred pieces; among which they will juggle
in five or fix or ten, lefs fine, or lefs white, fhorter and narrower than accor
ding to the fcantling of the Bale, which cannot be found out but by examining
them piece by piece. The finenefs is difcern’d by the eye,the length and breadth
by the meafure. But the Indians pradife a more cunning way, which is to
count the number of threads which ought to be in the breadth, according to
the finenefs of the fcantling. When the number fails, it is either more tranf-
parent, more narrow, or more courfe. The difference is fometimes fo difficult
to be perceiv’d, that there is no way to find it out but by counting the threads.
And yet this difference in a great quantity comes to a great deal. For it is no
thing to coufen a Crown or two Crowns, in a piece that comes but to fifteen
or twenty Crowns. Thofe that whiten thefe Calicuts, to lave charges of a-
few Limons, will knock the Calicuts exceffively upon a Stone, which does fine
Calicuts a great injury, and loars the price.
As for their Calicuts dy’d blew or black, you mufl take care that the Work-
then do not knock them after they are folded, to make them look fleek $ for many
times when they come to be unfolded, you fhall find holes in the creafes.
^ As for your painted and printed Calicuts, which are painted and printed as
i ney come out of the Loom, the Merchant miifl take care that what he be-
fpeaks be finifh’d before the end of the Rains, for the thjcker the Water is
where