'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.' [‎66] (103/1024)

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Mountains, Which had been impafTable, but for the Liberality of M CouU-Km
Governour of Schirtts. He made Ways where there were none before, and joyn’l
Mountains together by Bridges, in Countries which otherwife had been inacceffible
In the midftof the Mountains is a wide gap or difcontinuance, from whence a Plai
extends it felf of about twenty Leagues in circuit. It is inhabited by y^onlv
who are Silk-Weavers. In cheie Mountains you met with Tents, where the Chal]'
ms fojourn, that come for cool Air and Pafturagc in the Summer.
Coming to I took Horfc there for J/pabm, which l arriv’d in nine dav
The Country over which you travel, between thefe two Cities, is part Plains
Mountains j part wild, and part manur’d. Three days journey fr<am Schirl/vL
pafs the Mountain of Mayen, a little City where there is nothing worthy obferva-
tion. Two days journey from thence you enter upon the Plains of the Province
of Cafcuzar , whefe the King of Perfia keeps his Race-Horfes. The next davl
arriv’d at Yejdecas^ where the bed: Bread in Per fid is made. This is a little City U po n
a Rock, wherein there is a very fair Inn : at the foot whereof runs a little River that
glides into the Valley, wherein grows that excellent Corn which is utter’d in Rrearl
from that City.
In three days I went from Ye[deciu to ifpahatt. This was the fir ft Road from A-
leppo to Jfpahan.
C HiA P. IV.
Of the 'Road from Aleppo to Ifpahan, through Mefopotamia
and Aflyria, which I traVeWd in my third Voyage to the In.
dies.
Departed from Paris in my third Voyage to the Indies upon the fixth of
-Dccewfor 1643, and went ioLigom, where I found the T) 0 th Fleet ready
to fet Sail for the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. . The Veflel wherein I embark’d feeming rathera
. Man-of-War than a Merchant-Man. W£ pafs’d through the Chanel of
Mejfma, and lay there at an Anchor four days before the City. From thencepaf-
fmg by the Morea, we enter’d into the Archipelago, where the Fleet parted, ac
cording as every Ship Was bound. Our Ship fayl’d dire&ly for the Port of AIcxm
drelta, but though the Wind were favourable, we were ftop’d for feme time by
a Pirate that met with us off the Eaftern Point of Candy. We endeavour’d to have
got dear of him} but the Pirate gaining upon us, we made ready. Thereupon the
Pirate gave us three Broad-fides, that went over the Ship without doing us any
harm: which we anfwer’d by as many from our Ship, the firft whereof brought his
Fore-maft by the Board *, and the third Shot Went through the Fore-caftle and kill’d
him fome Men, as far as we could difeern. At that very inftant one of our Mariners
cry’d out from the Top-maft-head, A Sail from the South. Thereupon the Pirate
left us* and made Sail after her: and we, glad of fuch an efcape, purfu’d our Voyage
to Alexandretta, where we happily arriv’d * 7 from whence I took Horfe fot Jlcffo,
as I have already deferib’d.
The fixth of March I departed from Aleppo in the company of two Capuchin
Friars, Father Raphael Father Yves, and the Venetian whofe name was Dminici
de Sanflis.
From Aleppo to Bir, where you crofs the Cuphraies, it is four days journey for the
Hiwfe-Caravan. The Country is well wooded, and well manur’d.
Thefeventh of March the great Rains that fell hinder’d us from getting to the
ufual Stage, fo that we could not gain Te/^cW, another Town, where there is no
Inn: which conftrain’d us to ftop a League on this fide, and to go to a Cave that
was able to contain three hundred Horfe. This is a Cave where the Bedouins
Feeders of Cartel thereabouts oft retire, who live after the'manner of the ArM
cither in Rocks or in poor Hutts. The Cave has been hollow’d from time to tiinei
there being feveral Niches in it like little Chambers. 4 Dur Caravan-Bafti feeing
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