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'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.' [‎105] (654/1024)

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nfm the Euxihc and Calpian
10
" From Fetwara, which is at the head of the Strait or Gulf that enters the ildc^a.
to Precop, is 700 miles 5 from thence to Caffa^ a noted City and Port in Crim 300
miles; to Ajfiowa 500 miles 5 to TemeroJJa 500 miles; to Mingrelia 400 miles; to
irebezond.400 miles ; and from thence unto Conflaniinopte 1000 miles; in all 3800
miles- Thus milch I know of the B/^Sea, which I have three times coafted by Sea*
and traced above half by Land 5 fo that now it is time to [peak concerning the Caftian
Sea, and fhew all the Kingdoms and Countreys which lie upon it, beginning at Aftra*
can, and proceeding thence EaftWards, until I return unto the fame City from the
South. " , , j f
jjiracan is placed on a riflng ground, not fair from the mouth of the Volga, from
which it is not diftant above 50 miles; it is in an Ifland on the Great Nagoy fide, made
by the Kwer Volga,'and a branch thereof, having the Cafpidn Sea on the South. The
Town or City is fccured by a ftrong Caftle, furnifhed with fiore of great Ordnance,
and in the midfi: of the Cafile is a Koskade, which commands both Caftle, Town^
and the Fields round about for above a mile. The tartars Town is ad joy ning, placed
near iipto Cntuma, which is a Kiver naturally derived from the Volga, or one of its
many branches; lo that the Town is incompafted with Waters, having the main bo
dy of the Volga on the Weft, and Cvttumd on the Laft. ; Now if you would know
whence the Volga comes, I will acquaint you with what 1 have learned from the Muf-
twites. Its utmoft Source is faid to be at the foot of a great Tree, whence it runs un
to Jerijlave 1000 miles 5 whence it proceeds to Neifna 500 miles, and thence unto
Cajfan 300 miles; from Cajfan to Samara 500 ; to Saraioft 350 miles; to Saraichend
350, and thence unto Aftracan 500 miles; from whence it is, as we faid before, unto
the Cajpian Sea, 50miles; in all 3550 miles.
The Volga is a wonderful great River, abounding with divers forts of great Fifh, as
Sturgeon Bellottke , Severn^, Shetren, Sterleke, Scm, S off an. Sake, Soudake, Konnee, Sahlee,
Ltfee, Wohla, tarane, and many others both great and fmall, which I cannot readily
call unto remembrance, notwithftanding that I dwelt there ten years. The Volga en
ters the Cafpian Sea by mouths, and upon each of them is an Oughfukg or Fifh-wear,
for to take Sturgeon, every one of which Optgbfuk?s is called by the name of the Wa
ter, as Soellova, Vertullee, B Jferigee and Txujlorva Upon the main fVolga. Cohelm, B:e~
mike, Ewanfuke, Man for, Argeeffan, Keejjan, Camufjhuke, Naowara , tuffnchly, Collohery,
Mall a Collobery* Tamanfuke, Eirichfha, Surka , Li be (ha. Buff an, Carabuffan, Bealla Wollof-
k e ' In all which Oughjukes or Wears, they take no Fifti befides Sturgeon. They are
made of Shigmas, or long Poles made fharp at one ehd, and beaten into the ground un
der Water, and a pleiting made of Rods, fomwhat refmbling Ofier, after the man
ner of our Matts, which are faftened to the Poles, and hinder the Fifti from palling up
the River. And Houfes are built near the Wears for the Conveniency of the Filhers,
4°) 5°5 uiore or left, according unto thegreatnefs of the Water, or refort of Fifh,
and twice evei'y day, ufually in the morning and evening, they fet about their Filhery.
They imploy only long flender Poles with an Iron Hook or Cruke in the end baited,
and do ordinarily take 400 every day in the fmailer, and 600 in the larger Streams.
The Sturgeon they take is all lalced, excepting that wherewith they ferve the Town
oiAftracan, where a whole fair Sturgeon may be bought for ten pence Englifh ; and
When the great Caravan comes from Lujfia, it takes oft moft of their Fifh, which is
conveyed into dives parts of Mufcovy ,huz chiefly unto the great. City of Mofco.They re
turn alfowith great quantities of Caviar and Salt, there being not far from the Volga,
on the Little Nagqy fide, greai Salt-pits,which yield an immenfe quantity of Salt, pre
pared yearly by the heat of the Sun, without any further trouble, than taking it off
thefuperfides of the Water where it daily kerns.
. The Volga a little above _ Seraichcna, 500 miles from Ajlrachan, diftniffes a great
branch named Act a bon, which palling through the Delart of the Great Ndgoy through
enters the Cajptan Sea* The remainder of the Volga, after having parted with
jcveral (mailer Branches, moft of which jayn with the forementioned River, divides
the Link and Great Nagoy, paftes under the Town of Aftrachan, whence it proceeds
Unto Kuflowa, on the South weft fide of Crofna Beggar, and then falls into the Cajpian.
And the diftance between the Eaft-fide of the Volga near Aftracbangxnd die River Acta-
- > ls about 2*0 miles, which is moftly Water and Iflands.
r l ‘ m r ^ e Courfe of the Volga horn its firft Source, until it doth difembouge it
icil into the Cafpian Sea,can be no ids than what we haveafierted,is hence confirmed 5
, That

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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.

Author: John-Baptist Tavernier

Publication details: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's Churchyard, MDCLXXXIV [1864].

Physical description: Pagination. Vol. 1: [18], 184, 195-264, [2]; [2], 214; [6], 94, [6], 101-113, [1] p., [23] leaves of plates (1 folded). Vol. 2: [8], 154; [12], 14, [2], 15-46, 47-87, [3]; 66 p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded).

Misprinted page numbers. Vol. 1, part I: 176 instead of 169; 169 instead of 176; 201 instead of 209; 202 instead of 210. Vol. 1, part II: 56 instead of 58; 61 instead of 63; 178 instead of 187. Vol. 1, part III: 13 instead of 30; 49 instead of 48. Vol. 2, part II: 93 instead of 39.

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1 volume (898 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references which covers all four books within the volume. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles anf page references. There is an alphabetic index at the end of Books I and II and a separate alphabetic index of place names which accompanies the map at the beginning of book IV.

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'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.' [‎105] (654/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187080.0x000037> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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