'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.' [‎131] (172/1024)

ot their mouths, and the more lick the party is, the louder and thicker, they fetch their
belches. The handers by hearing them belch in that manner and fetch fuch vilanous
lighs from their homacks, believe their friend to be cangercufly ill, and thatthelouder
the Women belch, the more eafe and comfort they receive? but whether they do or no,
the women are well pay’d for their pains. When any one feds a pain in the Head,
they fend for the Barber, who gives two cutts upon the Head acrofS'With the rafor,
and then pours Oylinto the wound. For they believe the Head-ach proceeds only
from a wind between the flelh and the bone, for which the Incifion opens a paffage
to let it out.
At their Funerals they that are the near Relations or Friends of the dead, fome
cut their faces, and other parts of their Bodies with (harp flints, others proftrate them-
felves upon the ground, and tear their hair *, fo that when they return from the
Burial, they are all of a gore blood : However, notwithtiaftding all this affliction,
they never pray for the Dead.
As to their Marriages ; When a young man has feen a Virgin which he has a lik
ing to, he fends one ot his friends to agree with her Parents or her Tutor, what he
will give for her. Commonly the guifr oonlilts in Horfes, Cows or fome other fort
of Cattel. When the agreement is made,the Parents and Kindred ofthe party there
by contracted, together with the Lord of the place, go to the Houfe where the
Virgin lives and bring her to the Bridegrooms Houfe, where there is' a Feait. ready
prepar’d? and after they have made merry, and fung, and danc’d for awhile, the
Bridegroom and Bride go and lye together, without any other Ceremony. If the man
and Maid are of two Parifhes, the Lord of the Village where the Man lives accom
pany him and his Kindred to the next Village all together, to fetch the Bride from
thence. , ’ . ' r j
If a Man and the wife have no Children, he is permitted to take feveral .wives one
after another till he have IfTue. If a marri’d woman have a Gallant, and that the
Husband ihould come and find his wife abed with him, he goes away again without
faying a word, and never takes any further notice of it. The woman alfo in the fame
cafe, does the like by the man. Nay, the more Gallants a woman has,the more (he is
refpe&ed : And it is a common cuflom when they fall out, to taunt one another,
that if they were not ugly, ©r ill natur’d, or difeas’d, they would have more Admi
rers than they have. The People are ofan excellent Complexion, efpecially the wo
men, who are extreamly fair, and rinely (hap’d, and* keep their beauty till five and *
forty or* fifty years. They are very laborious,and work themfelves in the Iron Mines,
which they melt afterwards and forge into feveral Tools and Implements. They
make abundance of Embroidery of Gold and Silver for their Saddles, their Quivers,
and their Pumps, as alfo upon the Calicut of which they make their Handkerchiefs.
If the man and the woman happen to quarrel often together, fo that they cannot
be reconcil’d; the Husband complaining firfi to the Lord of the Place, He fends for
the Woman, and having giv’n order to fell her, gives the Man another. But if the
Woman complain firft? the Man is ferv’d the fame fawcc. If a man or Womanbe a
difturber of their Neighbours, if the Neighbours complain to the Lord, he prefently
caufes the party to be apprehended and fold to the merchants that buy Slaves, for
they are refolv’d they will live in quiet. . ’ i
They that take upon them the quality of Gentlemen, fit fiil], do nothing, and
fpeak very little.ln an evening they ride out, and meet fome twenty or thirty together
to go a ffealing.Nor do they rob only their Enemies, but their Neighbours, from
whom the chief prey which they take are Cattle and Slaves. All the Country-people
are Slaves to the Lord of the Village where they live, whom he imploys to till his
Land, and cut wood tor him upon occaiion,of which they fpend vail quantities. For
not being very warm clad, they keep fire all night in the places where they ileep.
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