'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.' [‎150] (191/1024)

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The Persian Travels
Book IV.
the leg deep i though it be very true that there are very few people tobTfe,
then In the Street i for in regard of the vaulted Channels that run through ev eiT
Street (bould the SoakM Earth chance to fall under the Horfe, it might endanger j
Limb/ Betides, thePerfians zxc fo fuperftitious, that they will hardly receive
a man within their doors with a fpot of Dirt upon his Cloaths, for fear of being
de You b fhall aifo meet with little Holes againft the Walls of the Houfes in theoph
Street, where the Perfians are not afham’d to fquat and Pifs in the face of all the
World. If there be any running Water in the Street, they take a little in their
Hands and wafh their Member with it i or if there be no Water, they rub it againft
a Stone or the Wall, which they take for a great piece of gentility and mo.
^'That which farther contributes to the naftinefs of the Streets of i S)
that the Butchers throw the Blood and Excrements of the Beads which they kill
into the Streets. If a Horfe or a tole, a Camel or an Afs dye, they prefoity
throw him into the Street. True it is, that there are people who come prefentlyto
buy it of the Owner, who make Harijfe, which they fell to the poor Work-men,
This Hariffe is thus prepar’d i they boyl the flefh of the dead Bead with Corn, and
after it is wellboyl’d they math it together, ’till it becomes like a Pottage. They alf 0
make Hanfl of good Mutton ■> both which forts they fell in the Market-place, or
great Meydan of the City.
Though the City of Ifpahan be dirty, yet there is a way for perfons of Ability to
avoid ir, for they never dir but on Horfe-back, with two or three Lackeys, call’d
Chatref, that run before to make room. For the Men are all upon the falfe Gallop
in the Streets, without any fear of hurting the Children: by reafon that the Chil-
dren are not differed to play in the Streets like ours, but asfoon as ever they come
from School, they fit down by their Parents, to be indru&ed by them in their Pro-
fedion. ^
Thzfe Valets ot Foot-men make a Trade of Running *, of which the King and
the Lords have feveral in their fervice* it being a piece of grandeur to keep a
great many* They ferve from Father to Son, undergoing an Apprentilhipin
Running. From fix to feven years of age,they only fet themfelves to walk flowly.The
next year they run a League at a time upon a handfomtrot, the next year aftenkf
run two or three Leagues,and fo proportionably for the red.At eighteen years ot age
they are allow’d a Scrip of Flowr,with a dat piece of Copper to bake their Bread upon,
and a Bottle of Water y all which they carry about them when they run. For thefc
people when they are fent Pod never take the Caravan-Ko^^ but the fhorteft cuts
through the Deferts, and mud therefore accudom themfelves to carry their Provilion,
The King and the Lords have no C^tre/,but what are Maders y which degree they are
not to arrive at without fome Ceremony and performing a Race, like our Jem)
and the Butcher of Croyden. ; |
If he be a Lord that owns the Chafer who defires to be a Mader, he fends for all
his Friends, fets up a Scaffold in the Meydan, provides a Collation, and fends
for the Curtifans to divert the Company. Now there is not one ofthefeGuefis
‘that does no bring fomething to give this Cbater after the Race is run, either a
Bonnet or a Girdle, or fome other thing, part of which the gives to his
fellows. Then the Chafer appears with his Legs greas’d, his Thighs bare, only a
flight fhort pair of loofe Breeches, and a Girdle with three little bells hanging upon
his Belly. Thus accouter’d he darts from Ah-Capi, and between Sun-rifing and
Sun-fetting he runs backward and forward to a Stone a League and a half from the
City toward the Mountains y running in that time fix and thirty of our common
Leagues, or a hundred and eight Miles. W f hile he runs, there is Kmou)^ m the
Meydan, and upon all the Road where he runs, and three or four Horfe-men that
continually ride to and fro, to fee that there be no deceit in the Chafer's Racftwho
when he approaches near the City, ride before to give notice of his coming. Every
time he darts and returns, the Drums and Trumpets found y at the end of the Race
there dand feveral perfons with Arrows in their Hands, and ev’ry time he comes to
the Stone they give him an Arrow, which he carries back every courfe toAli-Cf 1
Every time he returns, the Curtifans rub him and make much of him. All the time
he runs, he eats nothing, but drinks Sherbet now and then. If he acquit himfe^