'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.' [‎7] (36/1024)

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Chap. II. of Monfieur Tavernier.
foonasthe Cptravan is lodg’d, the Servants go and cut the Grafs from off the Hil
locks, where it is much better then upon the Plains. But while the Beafts feed
only upon Grafs they are much weaker, and cannot travel fo far as at other
times.
From the Mountain where the Armenians were fet upon, you come to Almom y a
little Village upon a River, which you crofs, over a Bridge of Wood.
Going out of Almous, you crofs a large Plain, at the end whereof you lodge upon
the Bank of a fair River , call’d Toiifanion-fou, which falls into the River of
Tocat.
Having pafs’d this River, you afeend a high Mountain, which the People of the
Country call Kara behir-be^Hiendren^ov y the Mountain that flops the Grand Signors^
for it is very’rugged, and you mult of neceflity alight to alcend it. In that bad
WaytwoHorfes that carry’d each of them two Bales of Cloth burft under
their Burthen, which prov’d excellent Food for feveral Tartars that were before us,
and were pitch’d in the place where we intended to have lodg’d our felves} fo that
\ve were forc’d to go a quarter of a League farther. Thefe Tartars when they
heard of our two dead Horfes, made immediately to the Mountain fifteen or fixteen
of them with all joy imaginable to devour it. They flea’d the Horfes, and when
they came back (fori flay’d to fee them) they brought every one a great piece
of Flefli between the Saddle and their Horfes backs. For by that means the Flelh
mortifies, and bakes as it were, through the motion and heat of the Horfc, and
fo they eat it without any more a-do. 1 faw one of them that took a piece of thofe
Horfes Flefh, and after he had beaten it foundly between two nafty Linnen Clothes
with a piece of Stick, fet his Teeth in it, and devour’d it with a very greedy ap
petite.
Upon the top of the Mountain which I have mention’d, there is a Plain, and in
the midftof the Plain a Fountain call’d Chefme-beler y or, A Fountain of Chrijlah near
to which, on the South-fide, there ftands a Village.
From the place where we lodg’d, we came to a little Town called Adras, the In
habitants whereof are all Armenians.
Afpidar is but two Leagues from Adras, and is but a Village.
Jsbeder is another Village in the Mountains, where the Caravan generally flays one
or two days; as well to pay the Cuftom, which is the fourth part of a Rixdollar upon
every Camel, and half as much for every Horfe *, as for the excellency and cheap-
nefsof the Wine, where every Man provides for himfelf.
Twice we pafs’d by and paid nothing, in regard that the Caravan was too ftrong
for the Toll-gatherers; and were it not that they flay for the Wine, they might go
dire&ly forward without paying any thing. .
Leaving Jsbeder^ we came to another great Town in the Mountains; all the
Houles are hewn out of the Rock upon which it isfeated, as are alfo all the Stair-
Cafes. From this Village, having pafs’d a River, over a wooden Bridge, at the
endiwherepf there ftands an Inn, you come to Zacapa, another Village, from
whence through very narrow paflages, where you arc forc’d to unload the Camels,
and carry your Goods upon Mens (boulders for thirty Paces together, you come
to encamp in a little Plain. It lyes at the foot of a high Mountain, which they
call Dikmebelly beyond which lies the Townafter which you crofs three
Rivers; one fordable, the other over two Bridges," and then you come to a Village
call’d (farmem.
From Garmeru you go to Seukmen, another Village; from Seukmen to Louri ; from
Louri to CbaouqueU) which are two very handfom Towns*
I faw an Old man at Chaouqueu who was above a Hundred and Thirty Years old,
who wh&i Sultan Amurathbti\zgz<\Bagdat y gave his whole Army as much Oats as
ferVd them one whole day. In recompence whereof, thz Sultan exempted him and
his Children from all Taxes and Tolls for their Lives.
? Leaving Chaoucjueuy you come to a high craggy Mountain which is call’d
dogtiy or. The Bitter Mountain. The Ways being narrow^, the Caravann fare d
to travel fmgle; and then it is that they count all the Horfes, and all the Camels ^
every Horfc and every Camel paying to the Caravan- Mafter a certain Duty, which
amounts to a good Sum if the Caravan be numerous. One part of that Money is to
pay feven or eight ArmeniansyfCosx gpard the Caravan all the way ^ another part
defrays