'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.' [‎82] (753/1024)

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out Work of Europe, that the difference thereof will hardly be difcerned. I have fe en .
atnonaft thetneven of our kind of Guns, very hne and very good i and pieces of Gold-
fmifht Work fo well done, that 1 doubt whether in Europe they could be made better.
I have affo feen in Pitt ™and Miniature fuch curious and delicate pieces that 1 admi
red them Amongft others, I have feen the Combats of Ectyar, reprefented upon a
Buckler by a famous Painter, who was faid to have been feven years working at jt,
which feemed to me an admirable piece of Work. It is man.feft, that they want no
thing but good Matters, and the precepts of Art to g.ve them ,i.ft proportions i and
above all, that life of the Face, to which they have not yet been able to attain, fhe
Reafon therefore why in the Shops of Debit there are rarely found good Handy-craftf-
men is not want of Wit, but contempt of the Workmen, who are ill treated, and
whofc WoA is debafed m too low a price. If fome Ornrab or Manfibdar will have
anv thing made by a Workman of the Bazar, he will fend for him, and make him work
ini manner by force, and afterwards pay him as he pleafeth i and the man will think
himfelf happy too, if in part of payment he receive not the K<»rr A What heart then
can a poor Workman have to take pains to fucceed in his Workmanlh.p ? Heconhders
nothing but to difpatch his Work, thereby to earn fometh.ng to put Bread into Ins
.Mouth So that if there be any of them that fucceed, they are of thofe whom the great
Lords entertain in their Service, and that work only for them.
Touching the things within theFortrefs, where are the Smtgto, and fome other
Royal Edifices, you mutt not look for a Louvre, or an Efeurtal i thofe Buildings do not
referable ours, nor by what I have faid, ought they to referable them: it is enough
that they have that ftatelinefs, which is proper to the Climat.
I find nothing remarkable at the entry, but two great Elephants of ftone, which are
on the two fides of one of the Gates. Upon one of them is the Statue of Jaml, that
famous Raja King of Cbitar, and upon the other, that of Polta his Brother. Thefeare thofe
two gallant Men, that together with their Mother, who was yet braver than they, pit
fo much Work for Eckbar ; and who in the Sieges of Towns, which they maintained
againft him, gave fuch extraordinary proofs of their Generofity, that at length they
would rather be killed in the out-falls with their Mother, than fubmit: and for this
Gallantry it is, that even their Enemies thought them worthy to havethefe Statues
eretfted for them. Thefe two great Elephants, together with the two refolute Men
fitting on them, do at the firft entry into this Fortrefs make an impreflionoi I know
not what greatnefs and awful terror. frt
After you have paffed this Gate, you find a long and large Street, divided in o
by a Channel of running Water, and having on both fides, as our Pont-neut, ak)ng
railed Wall five or fix foot high, and four broad *, and further off fome Arches (hut,
that follow one another all along in the form of Gates. It is upon this long railed me
that thofe Clerks, Controllers, and other fmall Officers fit to do their Office,^ without
being incommoded by the Horfes and People that pafs along beneath. An^ it is ter
alfo where the Manjeb-dars, or little Omrabs^ are at night to keep the Guard, inc
Water of the Channel runneth dividing it felf through the whole Seraglio, zv\d at iengm
falleth into the Ditches to fill them. It is drawn out of the River by a Channel opene
five or fix leagues above Debli, and conveyed crofs the Field, and that throug o
Rocks that have coft great pains to be cut in divers places. And this is very near w a
may be feen at the entry into one of the two principal Gates, that anfwer to t eg r
If you enter at the other Gate, you alfo find prefently a pretty long and large Street,
having its rifings on the fides as the other, together with Shops upon them in Iku or rn
Arches. This Street is properly a Bazar, which is very commodious during the ie .
of the Rains and Summer, becaufe it is covered by a long and large Vault, whten n
on the top great openings to let in light. t , j uc t uW
Befides thefe two Streets, there are many other fmall ones on the right and lett n ,
that lead to the Apartments, where the Omrabs keep their Guard, each ,n hI , ’
once a week, for twenty four hours. Thefe Places are ftately ones for Corps e ’
the Omrabs driving to beautifie them at their own charges. Thele are ordinan y &
raifed Places refpe&inga that hath its little Channels of running a ’ 0 f
ConferVatories and Jets of Water. The Omrabs during the twenty our
Guard, take no care for their Table, the King fending them all their eat rea T, ^
fed, and they being but to receive it, as they do, with very much Ceremony
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