'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.' [‎39] (72/1024)

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Turks Bciram, or Eafter, which our Caravan, conhfting of Turk^-, would needs
folemnize. That day we travePd through an indifferent good Country, and well
till’d, where we difeover’d feveral fair Villages • and we lodg’d upon a rifing
Ground, from whence we had a very fair and far diftant Profpeft. '
The twenty-fourth we travePd fix hours, 1 and came to lodge in a Meadow where
the Water was bad. Near to that place, we difeover’d a Plain that extends it felf
eight or ten Leagues in length, though it be not above one or two in bredth ; it
feem’d like a Lake} and indeed it is only a fait Water congeal’d, and thickn’d into
bait, which you can hardly diffolve but in fair Water. This Lake furnifhes almoft
all Natalia^ with Saif, where you may buy a Waggon load drawn by two Bafalo^s
for 45 Sous' It is call’d Douftaa, or The TUce for Salt } and the Bjjha of Coachahar,
about two days journey from it, gets by it 24000 Crowns a Year. Sultan Amnrath
caus’d a Dike to be cut quite thorough it when his Army march'd to the Siege of
Bagdat, which he took iiTerfian.
The twenty fifth we travel’d nine or ten hours, and met not with one Village,
the Country being all defert. We lodg’d upon a rifing Ground, near a good foun
tain call’d Cara-dacbe’cefme, or, The Fountain of the Blacky Stone.
The t\&nty-fixth we pafs’d through a great Village call’d T freken agar ^ in a
pleafant fituation , but very ill 'built} and after we had travePd eight hours, we
came to lodge in a delightful Meadow, near another Village call’d Rmcouche.
The twenty feventh we travel’d nine hours through Countries full of Licorice, and
having pafs’d a great Town call’d Beferguenlou, we lodg’d in a Meadow.
The twenty eighth we crofs’d a great River call’d Jechilirmk, over a long well
built ftone Bridge. At the end of the Bridge call’d Kefte-hupri Hands a great
Village, wherein the greateft part of the Houles are built under Ground, like
Foxes Holes. We put on farther, and after leven hours travel, we lodg’d below
another great Village call’d Mou^imr^ where there are abundance of Greeks^
which they conftrain ever and anon to turn Turk*, The Country being inhabited
by Chriftians, and fit for the Plantation of Vines, there is Wine good ftore, and
very good, but it has the feent of the Wines of Anjou. The Village is well fimated
but ill built, moftof the Houfes being under Ground, info much that one ai the
Company riding carelefiy, had like to have fain into a Houfe. 4
The twenty-ninth we rode for feven hours through a pleafant Country, where
we faw feveral Villages } near to one of which the Caravan lodg’d in a Meadow,
clofe by a Fountain.
The thirtieth we rode through a flat Country, well manur’d, and Hop’d near a
River wherein there was but very little Water : it is call’d Carafon, or, The Black.
River. For two or three days together, at every two Leagues diHance we obferv’d
little Hillocks of Earth artificially rear’d, which they told us were rais’d during
the Wars of the Greek* to build Forts upon, for Watch-Towers.
The thirty-firH we travePd a very uneven Country, but abounding in Wheat,
and after we had traveFd nine hours, we lodg’d in a Meadow, near a River, which
we crofs’d next Morning before day, over a Hone Bridge.
The thirty-fecond, after we had traveld eight hours, we lodg’d by a River j
where we faw a great number of Turcomans : They are a People that live in Tents
like the Arabians, and they were then leaving that Country to go to another, having
their luggage in Waggons drawn by Bufaid's.
The thirty-third,we metagain with Mountains and Woods, which we had not;
feen in 18 days before, which had conHrain’d us to carry Wood upon our Canids
to drefs our Provifion.' We w r ere very fparing of it, and fometimes rhade ufe of
diy d Cows dung or Camels dung, when we came near the Waters where they were
wont to drink. We travel d eight hours that day, and lodg’d in a Meadow where
the Grafs was very high, yet where there had been Houfes formerly Handing,
The thirty-fourth we forded a deep and rapid River call’d Jangou, from the Nam?
of the Town next to it. A little above the place where we forded it, we faw a
ruin d Bridge, which had been built over it. >
The thirty fifth we travePd eight hours through a fair Valley well manur’d!,, and
upon the left hand we left a ( afile rais’d upon a Rock. The Qaya/van lay that night
upon a rifing Ground near a Village. h r
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