'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.' [‎244] (277/1024)

The Persian Travels
Book V.
After that, the fame woman can never return to her Husband ag ‘
The Children derive their Nobility from the Father, whither he be bo”* f
Slave, or anor a Legitimate wife. The Nobility of the iV/? ° rn £* a
is call’d Negabet) is founded upon their being defeended from Maboniet* 'tk
who-claim that extradion, have the title of Mir or Prince: and their Dau
carry the appellation of Mirza or Princefs. They are very numerous and ”
poor. But the title of Mir without a good Eftate or high Employment fa
little or nothing. , 7 § nihes
CHAP. XIX.
Of the Death and Burials of the Perfians.
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»'TpIs theCuftome among the Per fun i, that when the Patient lyes vetv dan..
, J. toufly ill, they light feveral fires upon the Terrafs of the Houfe to. i vet
Pecpk notice to pray for him. So foon as the breath is out of his bodv A
whole houfe rings with cries and lamentations, efpecially of the women whot«!
their hair, and (hew fuch antick poftures, that a man would think them Doffefi’d.
In the midft of their tears they make long repetitions of the worthy adions of the
deceas d, and every foot they fet up a yelling. Then they go and advertize Ih.
Cafi, that fuch a one is dead i to whom the Cafi anfmisSorcboam* Salamet-Balhn
m your head be m fafety. In the mean while he feals a Licence to the Mm
dercbwr, to take the body and wa(h it in a houfe which is built on purpofe neaTa
running water. After thatcome a great number of Moxllahf, with theEnfens of
the MaW which ate long flaffs like Pikes, at the end whereof are thin plate of
o’’ f0 . Weak that ^nd downward with the leaft motion; the
odiesofthe flaves being wrapt about with certain pieces of Taffata. Thefe MW
labs tear their threats crying out Alla, Alla, repeating nothin, efeld
dancing fomettmes upon one foot and fometimes upon another , and bccauftthev
ha haul loudeft get the moft money, they put their thumbs in theh ears £
heir fingers upon their checks, and tear their throats with all the force fhev hiv.
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vvntn rncy carry the Beire, it is the culiome that every one that meets ir
f«S them fhouldiers to help carry, while the others calc thcmfelvesi for vfhkh
the Kindred of the dcccas d make fome ackndwkdpmcnt c
Qu>li-y,alibisHorfesare bridl’d and laddl’d^X £h p
carries his Turban, another his Scimitar another hU W ' „ • U " e
another his Buckler, and whatever c^i, ofZuftffaff^hM n f™*!
his Courage. The biggeft Church-yard that bebngs to I aba„
but there is not one handfome Tomb in if Tl^ - ijpahan^ is Calnlhn >
The fi‘ he f b UP t A ,: Ch With f0Ur Pinar^XCKhey SSfiS
in the (hade when they vifit the Tombs of their Ar ceftors.
■ito of Ode hi, f ra |,„p ,h, „„!, from (Zoo oo™^" “a 1 ." P
man, or have been a ftour Souldier they burv wirh hi JV t J^ ie ^ ar,ch
Bow and Arrows, and fet Vidtuals by him; which part oft he ifrlie n
with bricks, the rell is fill’d up with earth tk/ m > , bein 8 nM!,e U P
houfe of the deceas’d where rLu “ fhe Mm// a t alone return to the
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