'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.' [‎40] (73/1024)

The .Persian
Travels
Book I-
'rr'TTZ r, vfh we travel’d through tha fame Valley for eight or nine hours
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Ve The thirty-feventh we travell’d fix hours among the Mountains, where there are
fome very narrow Paffages, butftore of Water ; and we lay in a Vale abounding
in The ttov-eighth we rode for four or five hours over a rugged Mountain in
cracsv way, at the foot whereof we met with a Village ca«d Ta^bac, f m
whence it ilbut five Leagues to Tccat. And thefe are all the Roads from Pans to
ffpaban, through the Northern Territories of Turk'.
CHAP. VIH.
y 0 a, the Author was robb’d near Tocat, and of a certain fort of
rare and fine Wool flinch he firfl brought into France.^
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| Jauibac is the place where the ‘Ttrfian Caravan ufes to meet, when it
departs from Tccat to Smyrna, and this is the only place m all the Rcrd
where a Traveller ought to ftand upon his guard-, by reatonot Thieves
mil who haunt thefe Quarters, and are great Mailers in their Trade. Once
as I came out of Perfia they would needs give me a tad of their Art, notwithftanding
all the care I took. There were three or four of us that would needs ride before
with our Servants to Taqmbac, inexpeaation of the which was to com
the next day j where we fet up our Tents upon the Bank of a fmall River. 1 M
then a good many Bales of Wool, with which 1 made as it were a double W 1
about my Tent: fo that there was but one paflage between the Bales, for ope M®.
In four of thefe Bales I had a quantity of Musk in lead n Boxes, to the value oira
or twelve thoufand Crowns: which Bales I put within-fide, io that they touctd
the Tent W mwBeds-head. NextNight, it being very dark, the Thieves cam,
and finding the outward Bales fmell fo ftrong of Musk, they tnougnt one of thole
Bales would be a confiderable Booty. The Bales were all ty’d together wu .
Cord that kept them fall-, not was it eafie to undo them, without a noifc. y
wak’d me with their buftle at firft, andl font out my Servants to fee if they co
catch them-, but they will lye foclofe upon their Bellies, that.ntuch adakN, J
as that was ’tis impoflible to difcover them. Thereupon myServants wen to %
again, and the Thieves to their Work-, and having with a great deal of mgen ■
cut the Cord, they carried away the two Bales. In the Morning four or five oh
with a Camel-driver for our Guide purfu’d them, and in half an hourwcm t's,
the marks of the Robbery; for the Rogues being mad that they f^nd noth ng
Wool, which they thought to be of no great value, fcatterd it mt e P .
for two or three Leagues together: fo that I caus’d it to be pick! up aga >
loft not above fifteen or twenty Pound. I fpeak this to caut.on the Marchantstte
carry Bales of Silk or other rich Commodities, to bewareof thele Thiev s, -
they will come creeping upon their Bellies, and then cutting the Bales w th 0
Razors, will prefently empty a Bale of one half of the Goods.
’Tis true, the Wool was of no great value for their ufe; but it was a foi t \ .
and very fine Wool, which I carry’d outof Perfia to Pans, where fu ' h “ n .
was never feen. Astotheplacewhereitistobehad, 1 met wit oneo
or Tertians thatadore theFire, who when I was at//p^fe-wm the year 1647
me a Sample of it, and inform’d me that the grcateft part of this VV ool com ^
the Province of Kerman, which is the ancient Caramama-, and mat tne u
is to be ract with in tbe Mountains that are next to the City, tiat ca
of the Province: That the Sheep in thole Parts have this particular prop ^
when they have fed upon new Grafs from January till the ee ,
itfelf, and leaves the Sheep naked, and their Skins iraootn, n e ^ o, hav<
fcalded off*, fo that there is no need of {hearing them, as with us. r ' c <, at heAI