'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.' [‎83] (754/1024)

Cities of Indoftan.
fp<A making three obeyfances of thanks, by elevating their Hand noon their Head
and bowmg down to the ground, their Face turned toward the King. ' ’
There are alfo found many raifed Walks and Tents in fundry Places that are the
Offices of feveral Officers. Befides, there are many great Halls that are the Kar-hanay,
or Places where Handy-craftfmen do work. In one of thefe Halls you ffiall lind Em ’
broiderers at work, together with their Chief that infpects them i in another vou ffiall
fee Gold-fmiths; in a third Pidurc-drawers i in a fourth Workmen in Laccl ; i n o
thers, Joyners, Turners, Taylors, Shoo-makers , in others, Workmen in Silk and pur
fled Gold, and m all thofe forts of fine Cloth, of which they make Turbands Girdles
with golden flowers, and thofe Drawers of Ladies, that are fo fine and delicate as that
fometimes they lalt them but one night, though they often coinhem ten or twelve
Crowns, when they are of that falhion, as I have mentioned > I mean, enriched with
thofe fine Embroideries of Needle-work. ’ cnnenecl WIth
All thefe Handy-craftfmen come in the morning to thofe Kar-kgnays, and work there
all day long, and at night return to their feveral homes, every one palling his Life qui
etly, without afpiring above his condition: for the Embroiderer maketh his Son an Em
broiderer, the Gold-fmith maketh his Son a Gold fmith, and a Phyfician in a Town
maketh his Son a Phyfician; and no body marrieth but with thofe that are of his Trade •
which is religioufly obferved, not only among the Heathen, that are obliged to it by
their Law, but almoft always among the Mahometans themfelves : Whence it is that
you may often fee very handfom young Women, that remain unmarried, paifing their
time as well as they can, though they might meet with good Matches, if their Parents
would or could marry them into another Family, efteemed lefs noble than their
own.
After all thefe Apartments, we come at length to the Am-bs, which is fomethine
very Royal. This is a great fquare Court with Arches, as may be our Place RcyaH
with this difference, that there are no Buildings atop, and that the Arches are fevered
from one another by a Wall, yet fo that there is a fmall Gate to pafs from one to the
other. Over the great Gate, which is in the middle of one of the fides of this Square
thereis a large raifed Place, all open on the fide of the Court, which is called Naoar-
krnay, becaufe that is the Place where the Trumpets are, or rather the Hoboys and Tim
bals, that play together in confort at certain hours of the day and night: but this is a
very odd confort in the Ears of an European that is a njw comer, not yet accuftomed to
it: for fometimes there are ten or twelve of thofe Hoboys, and as many Timbals, that
found altogether at once ; and there is an Hoboy which is called Kama, a fathom and an
hafl long, and of half a foot aperture below; as there are Timbals of Brafs or Iron,
that have no lefs than a fathom in diameter: whence it is eafie to judge, what a noife
they muft needs make. Indeed this Mufick in the beginning did fo pierce and ftun me
that it was unfufferable for me; yet I know not what ftrange power cuftom hath, for
I now find it very pleafing, efpecially in the night, when I hear it afar off in my bed
upon my Terrafs ; then it feemeth to me to carry with it fomething that is grave, ma-
jeflical and very melodious. And there is fome Reafon for this melody; for feeing it
hath its Rules and Meafures, and that there are excellent Mailers taught from their
youth to manage it, and perfe&ly know how to qualifie and temper thofe ftrong founds
of the Hoboys and Timbals, it cannot be otherwife, but they mud thence obtain fome
lympathy that cannot be difpleafing to the Ear, provided ( as I faid J that it be heard
at a diftance. And even for this Reafon it is, that they have placed the Nagar-kanay
very high, and remote from the Ears of the King, as you will hear by and by;
Over again!! the great Gate of the Court, upon which is the Nagar-k^anay, beyond
the whole Court, there is a great and ftately Hall, with many ranks of Pillars high raif-
p 3 ver y air V, °P en on three fides, looking to the Court, and having its Pillars and
Ground painted and guilded. In the midft of the Wall, which feparateth this Hall
rom the Seraglio, there is an opening, or a kind of great Window high and large, and
«• high that a Man cannot reach to it from below with his hand: There it is where the
mg appears ieated upon his Throne, having his Sons on his fides, and fome Eunuchs
handing, fome of which drive away the Flyes with Peacocks-tails, others fan him with
great Pans, others Hand, there ready with great refpedt and humility for feveral Servi-
| Sl Thence he ieeth beneath him all the Omrahs, Rajas, and Ambaffadors, who are al-
1 ° al, ot thcm Handing upon a raifed Ground encompafled with filver Rails, with their
tyes downwards, and their Hands doffing their Stomachs: fomewhat further off he
feefh