'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.' [‎162] (489/1024)

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than kill the fmalleft Animal or yermin that crawls } being in that point above
all things the molt lealous Obfervers of the Law. They never fight, nor go
to War ; neither will they eat or drink in the Houfe of a becaufe
they kill the Viduals they eat, all but Cows, which they never touch.
The fourth Cafte is that of the Char ados or Sandras ^ who go to War as
well as the Raff antes, but with this difference, that the Raff antes ferve on Horfe-
back, and the Charades on foot. Both of them take it for an' Honour to dye
in Battel y and let him be Horfe or Foot, that Soldier is accounted infamous
that retreats in Fight; ’tis an eternal blot in his Family, tfpon which fubjeft
1 will tell you a ftory. A Soldier who was paffionately in love with his Wife
and reciprocally belov’d by her, had fled from the fight, not fo much out of
any fear of death, as out of a confideration of the grief which it would oc-
ealion to his Wife, fhould he leave her a Widow. When fhe' knew the reafon
of his- flight, as foon as he came to the door, fhe fhut it againft him, and or
der’d him to be told, that fhe could never acknowledg that man for a Husband,
who had preferr d the Love of a Woman before his Honour ^ that fhe did not
defire to fee him any more, as being a ftain to the Reputation of her Family j
and that fhe would endeavour to teach her Children to have more courage than
their Father. The Wife continuing firm to her refolution, the Husband to re
gain his Honour and her affe&ion, return’d to the Army, where he fo behav'd
himfelf, that he became famous *, and having highly made amends for his Cow-
ardife, the door of his Houfe was again fet open, and his Wife receiv’d him
with her former kindnefs.
The reft of the Natives, that are not reckon’d in the number of thefe Cafes,
are cklX& Pauzecour. Thefe are fuch as employ themfelves in Handicraft Trades j
among which there is no other diftin&ion, but according to the Trades which
they follow 7 from Father to Son. So that a Taylor cannot prefer his Son, but
only in his own Calling, though he be never fo rich } nor marry either a Son or
Daughter, but to one of his own Craft. By the fame rule, wheji a Taylor dies,
all thofe of his own Trade accompany the corps to the place where it is burnt:
and the fame praftife is obferv’d in all other Trades.
Among the particular Cafes, there is one that goes by the name of Jlecors }
whofe employment is only to clean Houfes } for which every Family pays him
fomething once a month, according to their proportion and quality. If a perfon
of quality in the Indies keeps fifty Servants, let him be Mahometan or Idola
ter, there isnot one of them will take a Befome in his hand to fweep the
Houfe } for he would think himfelf affronted, it being one of the greateft fcorns
you can put upon an Indian, to call him Jllacor. Befides, every one of thofe
Servants knows his bufinefs ^ whether it be to carry the pot of Water to
drink by the way, or to give his Mafter his Pipe of Tobacco when he calls
for it; fo that if the Mafter fhould bid one to do that which the other was ap
pointed to do, that Servant would ftand like a Statue, and never make him
any anfwer. But for the Slaves, they are oblig’d to do what ever the Maker
commands them. Thefe Macors having no other bufinefs but only to make
dean the Houfes, eat the feraps of all other Cafes •, and fo without ferupk
feed upon any thing. There are none but thofe of this Tribe make ufeof Abes,
to carry away the filth of the Houfes into the Field ^ for which reafon noneol
the reft of the Indians will fo much as touch that Animal ^ which is quite o-
therwife in Perfia, as well for carriage, as to ride upon/ Moreover, there are
none of the other Indians, except the Alacors that will eat.
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