'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.' [‎75] (112/1024)

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fand men he had as well by Sea as Land, and what number of Galleys arid Ships?
wherein we.fatisfy’d him according to the beft of our knowledge, A? ( ter he
had civilly treated us, he fent his Lieutenant back with us again to the Caravan,
About ten a Clock the next night we diflodg’d, and the Lieutenant and fix Soldiers
attended upon us \ who told us he had order not to leave us, ’till he had brought,
to Solyman Kan.~
The nest night we lodg'd between two Mills, among feveral Tents of Herds meri.
Here it was that the Commander had order’d that we fliould be trcatrd by the De~
rega. A Deroga, as 1 have laid, is the Judge of a,Village : But this J}er?g 4 'm&
chief of many Families, iome of which wtrctf.Mefopotamia r -othets bt-■■Arabia,
Thefe are all Herdfmen that never live in Houfes, but retire with their Ca t e to
the holes in the Rocks, where partly Nature, partly Art, have contributed to makt
them convenient Habitations.
So loon as we were ahgnted, four ancient men came and led the AmbalLdof andi
myfelf to the DerogasTcnt. It^feem’d to confifl: of many Rooms, with a Ha]l in
the middle, ’ fpread witri Perfian Carpets. He caus’d us to fit down upon Cufhions,
and then prclented us with a Pipe of Tobacco, and Water to wafh our Feet. Af
ter he had nobly treated us, and that we were upon taking our leaves, the Deroga
Was very njjiih troubl’d that we had made a fmall Prefent to his Son ^ telling^
that it was a crimeior him to take any thing of the King’s Guefts, efpeciaHv from
Strangers that had come fo long a Journey.
The next day we lodg’d in a place where there was fuch a prodigious quantity
of Lillies that the Ground was almoft cover’d With them. There were none '■hat-
were white, being for the moft part of a fair Violet colour, with a ftreak o- Red.
in the middle of every leaf ^ they dre like our Lillies, but much bjggcri And to
drink the infufion of the Roots of thefe Lilliesj elpecially thole whofe Leaves are.
blackeft, for fifteen days together, is a molt Sovereign remedy agaiml the Pox
Not long after came a Perfon of a goodly Aipeft, who feem’d to be an Arabian^
but he 1 poke the Perfian Language, whom Soymun Kan had lent tO;Compliment the
Ambafiador. He carry’d us to the Tent which thf Governour had caus’d to be fet
up in a Garden near the Town, ' where he alfo Lodg’d the Capuchins. The Ambafc
dor alfo fent to Compliment the Kan by my interpreter $ an * when the hour was
come that we were to fet forward, he gave order to fix of the Captains of fiis Ca
valry to accompany the Ambafiador. The fiou% where the Governourjiv’d in, was
one of the moft beautiful in Perfia. And as for the Governour himfeif^ we found
him in a Gallery that look’d upon the Garden, the Floor being all fpread over with,
Tapeftry of Gold and Silk , with large Culhions of Cloth of Gold all along the.
Wall. After fome Queftions and difeourfe concerning the Affairs of Europe, they
ferv’d in Supper, which confifled of feveral Dilhes*, but no Wine wtis to be had y
our drink being only Sherbet and the juice of Granates, with Sugar for thofe that
defir’dit. We were along time at Supper, for’tis the cuftom of Per/£* that when
one man riles, another takes his place and falls too, in fo much that the Matter of the
Feaft muft have the Patience to flay ’till feveral have tak’n their turns y and when,
every one has done, the Cloth is tak’n away without any more to do^ Here the
Ambafiador committed an abfurdity • for there are no Silver or Gold Spoons in
Perfia, but only long Wooden Ladles that reach a great way. Now the AmbajOTa-
dor reaching his Ladle to a Purflane-Difh full of Pottage that was fealding hot,.
Clap’d it prefently into his mouth ^ but finding it fo hot that he could not endure
it, after feveral feurvy faces, he threw it out of his mouth again into his hand, in
the prefence of all the Company.
After we had ftay’d five days at Sneirne, the Caravan-Bajhi fignifi’d His defire to
furfue his Journey. Thereupon the Ambafiador took his leave of the Governour*
prefenting him with a Watch and a pair of Piftols} who in retaliation prefented the
Ambafiador with a {lately Horfe, and a Colt of two years old. . The next day we
diflodg’d, and purfu’d our Road to Amadan, which is nOt above three days Journey
from Sneirne.
Amadan is one of the largeft and moft confiderable Cities of ‘Perfia^ feated at the
foot of a Mountain, where doarife an infinite company of Springs that do water all
the Country.. The Land about it abounds in Corn and Rice, wherewith itinm.ilhp
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