'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.' [‎10] (39/1024)

The Persian travels. . Book. I.
Cmafinr is the firft Village where you lodge after you leave the BridgeofcW^I
Kupri, going to Brivan.
Hahcarcara is the next Stage to Co?ttafour : this is a great Town alfo inhabited by
Chriftians, but the Houfes are built all underground like Caves. Coming thither
the 'jth of Marcia 1655, [the Snow was fo deep that there was no ttavellin? fo
that we were forc’d to flay there eight days. But the Cuflomer of £r^row under-
ftanding in what a bad condition we were, came in perfon with five hundr edHorfe
to make way for us, and fen t for the Country people round about to clear away
the Show. But it was not fo much out of kindncfs to js, as for Msown Intereft
For a new Officer being to fucceed him upon the 22 d oi March-, and our Caravan
being very numerous, he would have loft above an Hundred Thoufand Crowns had
we not come to Br^rom before that day. Many of the Paflengers were almoft
blinded by continually looking upon the Snow, the colour whereof very much dims
the Sight: for prefcrvation whereof the Travellers are Wont to wear black Cyprefo
Hoods, made on purpofe, oyer their faces. Others wear furrd Bonnets fring’d
about with Goats hair, which being long, falls over their Eyes, and does altogether
as well as the Hood.
The Caravan is ufually twelve days upon the Road, hQmBrz.eromt§ Brivan,
Leaving Halicarcara, you ford the Araa three times, and crofs it the next day
again: for it winds exceedingly. A League and a half from the place where you
ford it the fourth time, upon the top ofa high Mountain ftands a Fortrefs call’d
Kaguifgany which is the laft place which the Turk* poftefs on that fide. The Cm
ftomers that live there come to the Caravan to take their Toll,which is four Piafters
for every Camel loaden, and two for every Horfe loaden. In the year 1655 the
Caravan lodging about a League from the Fortrefs of Kaiuifgan, the Mountains
adjoyning being inhabited by Chriftian Armenians^ there came <0 us a poor Bifhop
attended by fifteen or fixteen perfons, among which there were certain Priefts
who brought us Bread, Fowl, and Fruit, defiring the Charity of the Merchants,
who recompcnc’d them to their fatisfa&ion. About four or five Months after, this
Bifhop had one of his Eyes ftruck out by a Janifary. That wicked Fellow came to
the Town where the Bifhop liv’d,and lighting upon the Bifhop,ask’d him for Money,
which becaufe the Bifhop had none to give him,in a rage he ftabb’d him in the Eye
with his Dagger. Complaint was made to the tsiga* who *tis thought would have
punifh’d the Offender, but he fled, and left the Bifhop without remedy of fatifi
fattion.
From the laft place where we encamp’d near the went and lodg’d the
next day upon the fame River, jn the fight of a Village not above a quarter of a
League. The Next day we crofs’d the River that runs from it/zr/, and parts Turkic
from Perjja. The next day we ftop’d upon the Banks of Aras, half aLeague from
a little Town 5 and this is the laft time you fee this River which you are conftram’d
to pafs fo often. *
Leaving we came to lodge in a plain, in fight of a Town which is not far
cliitant. The next day the Caravan lyes in the Field, and tlfe next day it comes to
^ place where there are three Churches, whence it is but halfa days journey from
CHAP. Ill, "
A Continuation of the (Road from Conftantinople to Ifpahan,
from the Borders o/Perfia to Erivan.
. - * v r • .
T HE firft Place worthy obfervation, entring into Perfa through
Armenia, is that which they call the Three Churches, three Leagues
from Erivan-, which Three Churches, ire three Monafteries diflant one
■ , . , , “ om the other .The biggeft and the faireft is the Refidence of the Patri-
arcto ot tne ^rmcNMns.There is another to the South of that,about a Musket (hot
• want, and another a quarter of a League from it toward the Eaft, which is a
Nunnery