'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.' [‎73] (110/1024)

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lee a Q>^„ coming they flock to the River-fide. Thofe people that wear nothtna
hut a coiufc piece of Linen or a Goat-skm to cover their nakednefs, takeoff their
Cioaths and wmd them about their Heads, like a Tarbant. Then every one ,1
a Goat sk.n blow d up under h.sCtomach ; and then two or three of the moft e'aoert
mounting the fame number of the belt Horfes, which are brid ’ i- „ , i f
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skm under his BeUy to help him. Conf,dering which difficulties, it ranrtt nke
upjeft time than I have mention’d to get over a Caravw of five or fi* hundfed
The CaravM being thus got over, for two or three days has but a very bad Road
The firft days journey the Horlcs were continually in the Water up to the mid leo
and the fccond, and part ol the third we tr.ivcl’d through a very defeit C ounirv’
where we met with very little food for our Horfes, and only a few Brakes to bovl
our Rue. Having got over this bad way, we came to a River call’d the great Zade
over which we pafs’d upon a Stone-Bridge of nine Arches. They repo t th^ his
Bridge was built by Alexander the Great, in his March againlt vJm. A quarter of a
League to the South Eaft,two Rivers meet, which empty themfelves into Tigris. Lea-
ving the Bridge, we came to a Town call’d SW^ca/jbuilt upon a rifing GrotInf , norm
lef fh R r d0UbtS ' 1 r here re , fide f a ■ B ^ a -> who muft be brib’d with a imall Prefent to
let the Caravan pafsj we lay by the Banks of a River, and Raid there two days
From thence we travel’d one days journey oyer dry Mountains, not finding any
, Water. But the next day we came into a pleafant Plain, ftor’d with Fruitier
This W h S the Plain of Arbde, where Alexander MattA Darin* ■ containing abont
fifteen Leagues m all. It is water’d with feveral Rivulets and in the m fj ji- t
the Mountain rifes a little Hill about half a League in circuit’ It U all 1 middle ”C
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that feems to have been a lumptuous Strufture. The Country-people fay That
fr„TL ' Wh ' IC h T CaptaiM glVC Batte ' Kinder. Three League
from thence, near a great Mountain toward the North, are to be f-rntLo 5
of another Caftle and feveral Houfes, where they add that nT, ? H - nCS
Of fo. wt n , When h, lo* .b. B „«,. pf.fo.a'
fhn e R r J t ] iat :,ears § 00 ^ ^oats. It runs winding about the Mountains to
the Southward; fo that two days journey from the Hill, you crofs it near a Town
call d Sherax,otil, over a fair Stone-Bridge of nine Arches, whereof the Great si?
^ caus a three to be brok’n down after he had tak’n Baydat G * h
. 1 bis City of Sherazcd is built after another manlier than any other of the Pities
.n thole parts, being all cut out of a fteep Rock fora quarter of a Le gu e h '
lo that you muft go up to the Houles by Stairs of fifteen, or twenty ftenT fome’
times more, (omet.mes iefs according to the feituation of the P 7 ace 7 The’neoX
have no other Doors to their Houfes than only a thin round Stone. hke a Mil ftonc
which they will roll away when they go inor out, thefidesof the Wall being fo cut
as to receive the Stone like a Cafe, being level with the Rock S
, on ; h T° PS ° f the * r j? oules are like Nlch « in the Mountain, where the Inhabi-
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fe!v« C ^ZTfr raZ °iT n ¥r, Eve ’ and ftaid there three days torefrelhour
elves, after a Lent which we had kept very fparingly. Here I found certain
w 7 ne § Lddran^,irVf arS H^ U k b,eS ’ o hkh . afterIhad mix ’ d with two Glaffesof
.'aft Thtfe Snrino’ h T having a kind of Mineral •
River ?p .y P h S fl UP f u T C fide ° f 3 River call ’ d ^«»/,«, or. The
T*gd*f. ’ * S t0 the Rlvcr » three days journey on this fide
•Perfa. neX£ day w ,ay at 3 pitifuI Town > tipon the Frontiers of Tttrkie and
Tne next day, being the fifth after we fet out from Nineveh, we pafs’d over
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