'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.' [‎131] (802/1024)

> 7 be Faradife of Indo/fan.
Where ftirring Tome ftones we'found a great black Scorpion, which a young Mogul of
my acquaintance took, and fqueeied it in his own hand, and then in the hand of my
fervant, and at lad in mine, without our being dung by him. This young Cavalier
faid , that he had charm’d him, as he had done many others before, by a padageof
the Alcoran^ which he would not teach me, becaufe, he jaid^ the power of charming
would pafs to me and leave himfelf, as it had paded to him by quitting his Teacher.
In traverfing this fame Mountain of Pire-penjale, Where the Elephants tumbled down,.
there occurr’d, thofe things which call’d to my mind fome of my former philofophical
thoughts. 'The fiAi was, tnat in lefs than an hour we felt Summer and Winters for in
afeending we did fweat grofs *drops, all men going on foot in a burning Sun i and
when we came to the top ot the Mountain, we yet found the Icy Snow, that had been
;ut to open the way > there was a Frod upon a milling Rain, and th^reblew a wind
focold. that all people (hook and run away, efpecially the filly Indiant, who never had
feenlce or Snow, nor felt fuch a cold.
The fecond was, that in lefs than two hundred paces I met with two quite contrary
winds > one from the North, which blew in my face afcending> efpecially when I
came near the top, and another frdm the South, which blew againd my back in de
fending i as if this Hill had protruded exhalations out of its bowels from all Tides,
which coming forth had.caufed, a wind that had defeended and taken'its courfe in thofe
two oppofite dales.
The third was the meeting an old Hermit, that had lived on the top of this Moun
tain fince the time of Jehan-Guire^ and whofe Religion was not known*, though it
was faid, that he did mjracles, caufed drange thunders when he would, and raided
dorms of Hail, Snow, Rain and Wind. He look’d fomewhat favage-like, having a
long and large white Beard uncombed. He asked alms fomewhat fiercely, fuffer’d us
to fake up water in earthen cups, he had ranged upon a great done*, made fignewith
his hand, importing that we fhould fpeedily march away, and grumbled at thofe that
made a noife, becaufe; faid he to me, ( when I was come into his Cave, and had a
little fweetned his looks with half a Roupy, which with much humility I put into his
hand)a noife raifeth furious dprms and tempeds. Aureng-Zehe^ faid he further, did
very well in following my counfel, and not permitting to make a noife : Chah-Jeban al
ways took care of the fame i but Jehan Guire once mocking at it, and caufing Trum
pets and Cymbals to found, was like to have perifhed here.
In reference to the little Voyages I have made in divers parts of this Kingdom,behold
the particulars I took notice of as I paired. We were no fooner arrived at Kachemire^
hut my Navah Danecb-mend-kan fent me, together with one of hisHorfe-men for a Con
voy, and a Country-man, to one of the extremities of this Kingdom, three fmall
days journey from hence, upon the relation made him, that this, was the very time
to fee the Wonders (for fo they fpeak of them) of a Spring that is-thereabouf. Thefe
Wonders are, that in the month of May, the time when the Snow begins but to melt,
this fountain, for about the fpace of fifteen days, regularly flows and dops thrice a
day, at break of day, at noon and at night: Its flowing ordinarily lafts three quarters
°f an hour, more or lefs, and that plentifully enough, to fillafquare receptacle, having
to go down to it, and being about ted or twelve foot broad, and as many foot
deep. After the firfl fifteen days, its courfe begins to be lefs regular and lefs copious s
and at length, after a month or thereabout, it quite flops and runs no more for the reft
nf the year, unlefs it be, that during fome plentiful and long rains, it -flews ircef-
fantly and without Rule, as other Fountains do. The Gentiles have on the
fide of the Receiver a little Temple of the Idol of Brare > which is one of
their falfe Deities *, and thence it is that they call this Fountain Send-Brary, as
as if y6u fhould fay, Water of Brares and that thither they come from all parts in pil
grimage, to bathe and fanefihe themfelves in this miraculous water. Upon the origin
°f this Water they make many fables, which 1 fliall not recite to you, becaufe I find not
the lead fhadow of truth in them. During the five or fix days ot my day there, l did
jjdiat poflibJe I could to find the reafon of this Wonder. I did attentively confickr the
fixation of the Mountain, at the fqot of which this Spring is found : I went to the
Ve ry top with great pains, frarching and prying every where. I obferved that it ex
tends it fell in length from North to South s that ’tis fever’d from other Mountains,
which yet arc very near to it *> that it is in the form of an Afles back j that its top, which
,Sver y Eng, hath not much more than an hundred paces where it is larged j that one
of