'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.' [‎62] (99/1024)

7 he Persian
Travels
Book II.
it would have left its bitterneis by being boy I'd : but we found the contrary
From thole two Weils that were good for nothing, we travePd fix days before
we met with any Water, which with their three days before, made nine •, and all that
time the Camels never drank, as I have hinted already. At the end of nine days we
crofs’d a Billy Country for three Leagues together, at the feet of three of whiqh
Hills there were three {landing Pools. The Camels, that line It the Water half a
League off, put themfelves upon their great trot, which is their manner;of runnino
and no fooner came to the Pools but they crouded in all together, which caus’d the
Water to be thick and muddy. Thereupon the Caravan-BafLi icfoVd to ftay
there two or three days together, Till the Water wasfetPd. Here we had alfothe
opportunity to boyl us fome Rice, there being good (lore of Bufhes that grew about
the Lake. But above all, the People were overjoy’d that they had’ an opportunity
to make Bread, which they do after the following manner. Firft thtydig around
Hole in the Ground, half aFootdeep, and two or three in diameter, which they I
croud full of Bufhes, and then fet them on fire, coveringthem with Bricks or Stones
’till they are red hot. in the mean while they prepare their Dough upon a Scfr^ or
round piece of Copper, which ferves at other times for Table and Table-Cloth to
eat upon. Then they take away the Afhes and Bricks, and making the Hole very
dean, put in their Dough, and covering it again with the hot Bricks or Stones, leave
it fo Till the morning. The Bread thus bak’d is very well tailed, not being above
two Fingers thick, and as big as an ordinary Cake.
While we flay’d at the three Ponds, I {’pent my time in killing Hares and Par-
tridge, of which there was very great plenty in thole parts. The night before wc
departed we fill’d our Baracko's again, the Water being very good and clear;
though it be nothing but Rainwater preferv’d in thofeCavides, whi.h in the Sum.
rner are dry again.
But now the Caravan-Bajhi y feeing we had travel’d already nine days without
finding any Water, refolv’d to leave the South, and to keep to the Well; and if he
met not with Water in two or three days, to take to the North-Eaft, or Winter-Eaft,
in quell of the River Euphrates.
Two days after we had chang’d our Road, wc pafs’d between two little Hills, .
where we met with a Pond* near to which were two Arabians, each with his Wife
and Children, tending a Herd of Goats and a Flock of Sheep. They toldusthey
were going toward Moujful, and put us in the beft Road to find Water *, and indeed,
from that place to Balfara, we never travelM three days together, but we met with
enough. • ' ‘
Five days after we had left thofe two Arabians, we difeov'er’d a large Palace all
of Brick; which fhew’d fome probability, that the Country had been formerly fow’d,
and that the Bricks had been but nt with the Straw. To the Palace belong’d three large
Courts*, in every one of which were fair Buildings, with two Stories of Arches, j
one upon another. Though this large Pile was Handing, yet no body liv’d in it,
nor could the Arabians, (very ignorant in Antiquity,) tell us by whom it was built.
Before the Gate of the Palace there is a Lake with a Channel, the bottom whereof
is brick’d, as alfo the Arch, which iscven with the Ground. This the Arabianshdwt
to have been a conveyance of Water from Eapbrates: which lurely could never be,
in regard that Euphrates is above twenty Leagues diftant.
From that Palace we kept to the North-Eaft, and after we had travel’d five days,
we arriv’d at a pitiful Town, formerly call’d now Afeched-Ali, whereof)
AiahomeCs Son in-law lyes buried in a plain Mofyuee. Generally there Hand four
. Tapers lighted about the Tomb, and certain Lamps burning over-head, whichare
faflen’d to the Roof.
Though the Perfians have AH info much veneration, yet tl^ey rarely go in Pil
grimage to his Tomb. The reafon is, becaufe that there being no waytocoraeat
it, but through BagAat, which is under the Dominion of the Great Turk, thercis
a demand of eight Piafters from every Pilgrim; which is an Impofition thatnoway
pleafes theKing of Per ft a. Sha- Abas Homing the t his Subje&s fhould be tributary to
the Turks? endeavour’d to divert them from this Pilgrimage by another fort of
Devotion, which he fet up at upon the Road from Tauris to Candahar. Nor
have the Kings his Succeffors been lefs unwilling to give their Subjefts leave to vifit
their Prophet AH, taking it for an Affront to pay Tribute to the Grand Signor.