'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.' [‎103] (142/1024)

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Chap. III. of Monfieur Tavernier.
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free through the Territories of his Government, which he freely and courteoufly
granted me : Come*, faid he, and dine with me to morrow, and you jhall have it.
The twenty-fixth of September we departed from Erivath and the ninth ot Novem
ber we came to Tauris, taking the ordinary Road.
At Erivan twoof my Servants, the one a Watch-maker, the other a Gold-fmith,
dy 5 d j I left them lick there, but caus’d them to be buried in the Church-yard
belonging to the Armenians. One of them dy’d in fifteen days, of a Gangrene,
which eat out his Mouth and Throat *, being the Difeafe of the Country. Though
had the Armenians known that one of them had been a Proteftant, they Would never
have allow’d him to have been bury’d in their Church-yard.
Hereobferve the exa# Juftice, wherewith the Per fans preferve the Goods of
Strangers. For the Civil Judge hearing of the death of the Watch-maker, caus’d
Ids Chamber to be feal d up . to the end the Goods might be prelerv’d for the
kindred of the deceas’d, if they came to demand them. I return’d to Tauris a
twelve-month after, and found the Chamber clofe feal’d up.
We ftaid twelve days at Tauris: during which time I refolv’d to attend the Kan
of Shamaqui, a frontier Town of toward the Caftian Sea *, hut I found him
not there, in regard it was Harveft feafon, at what time he goes to gather the
King’s and his own Duties.
1 wo days journey on this fide Shamtqui you pafs the Aras, and for, two days
journey you travel through a Country ail planted with white Mulberry-Trees j the
Inhabitants being all Silk-Weavers. Before you come to the City, yon muil: efofs
over feveral Hills; But I think 1 fhould rather have call’d it a great Towns where
there was nothing remarkable but a fair Cable which tfie Kan built himfelf, I fpeak
of the time part: For as I return’d from thisprefent Voyage of which I now write,
when I came to TWi* lunderftood, that there had happen’d fuCh a terrible Earth
quake in the Town as had laid all the Houles inheap > none cfcaping that difmal
fubverfion, but only one W atch-maker of Geneva, and one more who Was a Camel-
driver. I had leveral times defign’d to return into trance through Muftovyi but
1 durftnever adventure, being certainly inform’d that the Mujcoviterxtvci permitted
any perfon to go out of Mufcovy into Perfia, nor to come out ot Perfia into Mtif-
covy. So that it was by particular connivence that that favour was granted to: the
Duke of Hate’s Ambafladors. This laft time I was refolv’d to have try’d Whe
ther I could have open d a Palfage from Per fib through Mufcovy intoFfance, but the
* Ruine of Shamaqui deterr’d me.
We departed from fauris the twen'ty-fecond of November, from Whence to Cafhan
we met with nothing confiderable, but only one of the Mufcovite AmbalTadors
upon his return into his own Country, with a fmall Retinue of fixty, his Companion
dying at Ijpahan. ,
Upon Sunday the fourteenth of December taking Horfe by three of the Clock in
the morning, the Ice bearing very well, we came to Ijpahan about noon: but in
regard it was flippery before day, and very plafhy after the Sun was up, the JoUrney
was both tedious and troublelbm.
CHAP. III.
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* The Road from Aleppo to Tauris through Diarbequir
T Here are two Roads more remaining to be defcrib’d \ one through the
North part of Turkic, the other through the South. The firft through
Diarbequir and Van, and fo to Taurvs\ the fecond through Anna, and
the fmall Defert leading to Bagdat.
< ^ e ^ :r ^ e t ^ e htft thefe Roads, and make a skip at the firft leap to B/V,
whither I have already led you in the Road from Aleppo.
From Bir or Beri, you travel all along the River Euphrates to Cacheme.
t rom Cachme you come to Milefara i where you pay the Culloms of Our fa,
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