'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.' [‎178] (219/1024)

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The Persian Travels
Book VI
Thereupon he caus’d my Nephew to be enrol’dprcfently as one of his DciTr*
Ser vants, and order’d the Nazar to take particular care of him. t
The next day after my agreement with the Nazar, the King gave audhr- 1
the great Hall of the Palace to the AmbafTador of the Vsbick^ldriars. ^\\ IJ 1
lords and Officers of the Crown food in the Court where the AmbsiTador \y ^
pafs: there were alfo nine fately Horfes, whole Furniture was very rich spj t
different. Two HarnefTes were cover’d with Diamonds, two with Rubies /
with Emralds, two with Turquoifes, and one embroider’d with fab Pearls’ p]
he been an AmbafTador from a Monarch for whom the King of Ferfia had ha/
greater eflecm than he bad for the Cham oiTartary* there had been thirty Horf 1
for according to the value which the King puts upon the Prince that fends to him
he either augments or abates of the number of his Horfes of State. ,EvetyH 0I f’
isty’d by the Reins to a Nail of Gold fafien’d in the Ground, with a Hammer of
Gold lying by. There was another Nail of Gold behind, with a Cord ty’dtoit
that held their hinder legs. They let alfo before every Hcrfe a Caldron of Gold*
out of which they draw up Water into a great Manger j though all this be only fej
State, for they never water their Hbrfes in that place.
Out of the firft Court the Ambaffador enter’d into a large Gallery, bctwefii
a long File of Mufqueteers on each fide. Thence he enter’d into a Garth
through an Alky about eight Fathom broad* all pav’d with great Marble Stones
in the middle of which runs a Channel of Water four Foot wide, withfeverj
Water-works that fpurted out of the Channel at equal diftances. On each iideof
the Walk to the Hall where the King fat, there is a Pond almoft as long astlie
Walk, and in the middle of the Pond another for t of Water-works. Several 01
cers of the Army were rang’d all along the Alley '* and at the end of one of the
Ponds were four Lions ty’d i and at the end of the other, three Tigers couch®
upon Carpets of Silk, having Men to guard them with Half-pikes in their hands,
The Hall took up more ground in length then in bredth 3 being op’n every ways
the Cieling was fuftain’d by fixteen wooden Pillars, of eight pannels evety one,
and of a prodigious thicknefs and height. As well the Cielingas the Pillars were
all painted with Foliage-work in Gold and Azure, with certain other Colours mix'd
therewith. In the middle of the Hall was a Vafe of excellent Marble, witha
Fountain throwing out Water after (everal manners. The Floor was fpread witli
Gold and Silk Carpets, made on purpofe for the Place : and near to the Vafe was
alow Scaffold one Foot high, twelve Foot long, and eight wide, cover’d witli a
magnificent Carpet. Upon this Scaffold fate the King upon a four-fquare Cuftiion
of Cloth of Gold, with another Cufhion behind him cover’d with the fame, letup
againft a great Tap’hry-Hanging, wrought with Terfian Chara&ers, containing
the Myfteries of the Law. On each fide of the King flood feveral Eunuchs will
Mufquets in their hands. » The King commanded iht Athmadoukt and four others
to fit down by him, and the AthmaduUt made me a fignto fit down* but the
King knowing how little the Franks care for fitting crofs-leg’d, order’d me to he
told that I might ftand upright, if I thought good. The King was clad ins
Silk ftreak’d with Gold : His Cloak was a Gold-ground with Flower of Silkand
Silver, Furr’d with a Martin Sable, the blackeft and moft glifl’ring that ever
was feen. His Girdle was very rich, and upon his Bonnet he wore a Plume o( He
rons Feathers faften’d with a tranfparent Jewel * in the middle of the Jewel was
a Pear-fafhion’d Pearl, fet with great Topaze’s and Rubies.
About half and hour after the King was fat, the Nazar and the Matter of tnt
Ceremonies brought the Ambaffador, who neither himfelfnor any of his Train were
very well clad, and caus’d him to flay at the foot of the fleps into the Hall from ®
Garden. When the Ambaffador had afeended the fleps, he proftrated himlelfk'
fore the King, then advancing nine or ten paces he did the fame again} after wnic
the Maffor of the Ceremonies caus’d him to fit down, leaving between him anot e
King fpace enough for eight men. After that I cjpferv’d that the Nazar went oP
between the King and the Ambaffador, and between the AmbaffadourandtheW
but I could not tell what they faid. So that I being by that time quite tyr’d, ma
my obeyfance to the King, and w^nt home to my Lodging. ,
T he nexr day the Nazar fignffy’d to me that it was the King’s pleafurc to » v
me with a ccmpleat Calaat, or Habit of Henouxv and to pay me my money*