'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.' [‎65] (102/1024)

.III. tf/Monfieur Tavernier.
Mafter, and notfliewhim the Watch entire. It was at their Home that 1 then lav*
and therefore not knowing what to do with it, they ciefirU me to (hew my skill:
Thereupon I put on a new iTring. But the Anjbaijador, when he urideiftood to
whom he was beholding, though it were but a trifle, profer’d me all the fervice
and kindnef| imaginable. Thereupon the Carmelites and Jaguflin Fryars defir’d
me to requefl of the Ambaflador in their behalf, that he would obiain the Great
Turks proteaion for them , in cafe he took Balfara , that their Houfes and
Churches might be preferv'd ; which I did, and obtain’d by his means full pro-
te^ion from the Grand But they had norffeed of it, For the did not
make any attempt upon Baljara, hearing, that the were advancing ^ befldcs
that the rainyYeafon was at hand, which will not permit an Army to keep the Field :
So that had Bagdat held out eight days longer, the Grand Signor would have beeri
cqnftrain’d to have rais’d the Siege*
Having fpoken oi the Arabian Horfes, I mufl: needs fay, that there are fome that
are valu’d at a very high rate. The Mogul's Ambaflador gave for fome tbee 3
four, and fix thoufand Crowns, and for another he offer’d eight thoufand Crowns ’
but the Horfe would not be fold under ten, and fo he left it. When He wafcgot
home into the Indies, and had prefented the Mogul thbfe Horfesrwhich he had carry’d
along with him, being very lovely Creatures ^ he told his Mailer how he had offer’d
ejght thoufand Crowns for a Horfe more beautiful than any of them } but becaufe
the Owner would not let 111111 go under ten, he left him. The King incens’d that
his Arabaflador has flood for* fo.lmali a Sum, when it was for one of the greateft
Monarchs in the World, upbraided the poornefs of his Spirit, and banifh’d him
for ever from his prefen.ee, into a Province far diftant from the Court. Thereupon
the King wrote to the EngUjh to buy him the Horfe, who accordingly did fo, and
brought him to Surat, where the Governour-repaid them their Money. But the
Horfe dy’d at Brampour.
Nor mufl I forger, that while I was at Balfara, twice there flew by fuch a pro
digious number of Locufts, that a far-off they appear’d like a Cloud, and darkn’d
the Air. They pafs by Baljara four or five times in the year, the Wind carrying
them into the Deferf, where they alight, and moft certainly dye. Should they not
be thus wind-driv’n, there could nothing live upon the Earth in fome parts of Chal
dea They fwarm all along the Terfian Gulf, and when the Veffels come to Ormus
at the time of the year, there are little Shops where people fell Locufts fry’d in
Butter to thofe that love that fort of Diet. Once I had the curiofity'to open the
Beliy of a Locuft fix Inches long, and found therein feventeen little ones that Itirr’d*
whence it is eafie to guefs how thofe Infeas come to be fo numerous, efpeciaUv in
hot Countries. ' : J
There are feveral Barks that go from Ormm to furnifli both (ides of the Terfian,
Gull, where the people eat neither Bread nor Rice. I agreed with the Mafler of
P n< i Barks, and made my agreement that the Bark fhould not be above
halt laden; for generally they lade them too deep, and in foul weather they are
forc’d to throw half the Fixight over-board, to*fave the refl.
From Balfara to the mouth of the River Euphrates, it is reck’nd to be twenty
Leagues of Frefh-water. We (laid feven whole days for a Wind, which proving
favourable, we came to Brander~ric, ih forty-eight hours. This is the place where
you muft land, if you intend for Perfia, uhlefsyouare bound for Ormus. Brunder-
trie corififtsonly of five or fix little Fifhers Hutts^ which Butts are only Hurdles fet
one againfl another, and cover'd over, where they and their Families live. To the
lame place come Affes lad n with Dates, which I was forc’d to hire for want of
Horfes.
We were fix days upon the Road from thence to CaiLerom. This is a Mountainous
ountry, where there is Wood enough ^ but you muft lodge in the Fields, for
P er r e "0 Inns upon the Road. The way is pleafant in fome places, along the
i r ~ s 0 - evera ^ RRulets, and through verdant Groves ftor’d with great quantities
? ? urt e ®* kill’d a good many* which we eat, part with Pilaw, inftead of
rienns; lome we rofted, making Sticks to ferve for Spits;
Caz.trom is a little Gity ill built, where there is but one Inn, and that none of the
/ho t mvitmg to Strangers neither.
From Caz-erom to Schiras it is five days journey. *The Road lyes over very craggy
W ^ Mountains,