'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.' [‎163] (204/1024)

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with fix other Mou^ab^f round about him. 1 The Moullah made a Difcourfe upon the
Death of Hujjein und Hocen of about half an hour long, which being ended, the
l£ing caus’d a Calaat or Habit of Honour to begiv’n him, as alfo totheothers> though
not fo rich. When they had all put on the Habit, the fame Moullab return’d to /
his Chair, and made a Prayer for the health of the King, and the profperity of his
Kingdom.
All thefe Ceremonies lafted from feven in the Morning ’till Noon, at what time the
King retired into his Harjm, As for the People, they carry their Biers up and down
the City, and where-ever two Companies meet, whether it be for the upper hand,
or to getformoft , they prefently fall together by the Ears, and knock one another
down : For they are not permitted to carry any other Arms than good big Clubs,
almofi as big as Levers.
Some rime after the Feaft of Hujfrin and Hocen^ the Verfians celebrate another Fefti-
val, which they call the Feafl of the Camef in remembrance of/^raKm’s Sacrifice^
They have a great reverence for this Feftival, faying that it was a Camel and not a
Ram which God fent to reprieve Ifhmael (affirming that Ijhmael was to have been
facrific’d, and not Ifaac.) They choofe out for this Ceremony one of the faireft
Camels they can meet withal, and adorn and drefs him up with feveral Plates of
counterfeit Gold and Silver, and thep lead him without the City to a place which is
before a Mnfquee on the other fide of the River of Ifyahan, upon Zutyba fide } the
Vcroga or Provoft accompanying the people. The King was formerly wont to be at
this Fealt, accompany’d with his Nobility, and I have feen him there', but oflate
years he never goes, the Deroga fupplying his place.
When the King went thither, feveral Niottllahs pray’d for half an hour, after which
the King took a kind of a Jav’linand darted it againft the Camel: but now in the ab-
fence of the King,thePer^ gives the firft ftroak.At the fame time they fling theCamel
to the ground,with Ropes ty’d to his legs, and cutting offhis head and neck together,
they divide the reft of the Body into eleven parts more, to the end all the twelve
Companies may have every one their (hare. Every Company carry their (hare to the
Mafter of the Companies Houfe, who is generally the ancienteft among them.Which
part is kept and faked up ’till the next Feaft, and the piece the year before, fo ’till
then preferv’d, isthenboyl’d with Rice, and is the foundation of the Feaft for the
chief of the Company, who take it for an honour to eat of it : For the reft, they
boyl Rice with Mutton and Hens, and betides that, diftribute large Alms to the Poor.
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C H A P. VI II.
0 ] the Religion of the Gaurs, the Relicks of the ancient Perfians,
adorers of Fire.
f'Tp^Here are no men in the world fo fcrupulous of difeovering the My ft cries
5 of their Religion, as the Gaurs b fo that I was forc’d to frequent their
company very much in moft of my Travels, to pick out what I have
JIL here to deliver.
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Of the prefent Condition of the Gaurs.
A Fter the Perfiant began to perfecute the Gaurs^ great numbers of them retir’d
to Surat^ and others into the Province of Guzerat. Now the King of Perfia
lets them live in quiet •, and there are now above 10000 in Kerman^ where I ftaid
three Months in the year 1654. All that live in India are Tradefmen, and for the
moft part Turners in Ivory •, thofe in Kerman deal in Wool.Four days Journey from
whence ftands their principal Temple, where their Chief Prieft refides, whither
they are once in their lives oblig’d to go in Pilgrimage. There are Come of thefc
GattnYm mm IJpaban.