'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.' [‎252] (285/1024)

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The Persian Travels Book V.
The 2cth of March, by ten in the morning, I came to an Inn which was call’d
Moufhe^ which is a-lone- Hcufe at the foot of a Rock. There is a Spring about
five hunder’d paces from it, but the water is hot, and has a fulphury taft^ fo { { lat
the Cat tel will hardly drink it. Therefore you muft go to a Gift an about two
Mufqiief'thot from the Inn, where there is one newly fet up, inilead of another
that was there before, into which a Jew once chanc’d to fall in, and was therefore
broken by the fuperhitious Mahometans.
Three quarters of a league from are two roads that lead to Lar the
one fcrtlle Camds, the other for the Horfes and Mules, The firft is the W.
by three diys journey, and is call’d the Road of the Deferti for after you
HaVe paii a gfeat Town inhabited only by Camel-Mahers, where you lye the firft
higlit, between that ’and Lar, you (hall meet with nothing of Koufcs but only
fi£fdffnen“s Tents, that feed fotfietimts in one place, fpnetjnxs, in another. Upon
tli Camels Rokd there are another fort of Fowl like the great Cartridges in their
bodies, but their legs and feet refcmhle thofe of wild Ducks. The Camels take
this Road, becaufe it is imjpoffible for tfctm to pafs the Mountain Jarwi over
which the Horfes and Mules are hardly able to travel.
Tfet out from Mcii(ht\thc 21 th of March, at twain the morning, and having
traveled till eight through a plain, but ftony Countrey, I came to the little City of
Jarron 7 which Is rather to be call’d a Forrelt of Palm-trees that bear excellent
Dates. I lodg’d in an Inn five hunder’d paces from the City, andlfaid there two
days. r s
The 2 4t^,fetting out prefently after midnight,! travelPd a good hour, and then
T began to mount the fteep Mountain of Jarron, which is very high,and veiy long-,
but the defcer.t is the moft dangerous that ever I faw in all my Travels *,and betides
that, the Moon did not (bine. Being at the top, after you have defended three or
four hunder’d paces, you meet with a Bride pfope Arch, that reaches from one
Mountain to another j a bold piece of Aichitc&ure, rot enough to be admir’d
being rais’d at the charges of Iman- kouli Kan for the benefit of Travellers. Be
ing come to the bottom of this, you muff pafs two others as flee p in their a (cent
as in the ,defceptj upon the top of one of which Bands a Ciflern, which, though
ft be very large, is generally emptied by tit end of the Summer. Upon thefe
Mountains thefe is fuch an infinite quantity of Partiidg that a man cannot mli
that will but {hoof. By eight in the Morning I came to an Inn which is call’d
Shafyl, which is a-loneHoufein a Defert Countrey, butflor’d with bitter Almond-
trtes, and Turpentine-trees. Apposchirg neer to the Inn, you meet with two
or three Cifierns, which are a great comfort to Travellers, water being very
farce upon this Rood. There are at Shakal nine or ten Kadars for the Guard of
the Road, who are alfo Ma ffets of the Inn: So foon as you are alighted, they ask
you if you will eat any Rid, being fpfe of their blow, and having no more to do
but to go to the Mountain and fetch one, where they fwarm. There are ftoreof
Partridges, which are aimoft as big as Pullets 5 of which you may eafily killas
many as you pleafe.
The 2 i )th I travell’d five hours,from morfiihg till noon. An hour after I took
Horfe, 1 met with a Mountain, the defeent whereof was very Beep. They call it
the Mountain of Hufhen, at the foot whereof is a Fountain of encellent water.
A good league farther you meet with a fair Inn call’d Mouezerhy in the rnidftof a
pleafant Grove, where there is an excellent Spring of watery but becaufe there
T 0 t0 be had, you n.uB go as far as Detadcmhe, a Village featedin a plain.
A quarter of a league on this fide, upon the top of a Mountain, appears the ruins
of an old Cafile *, the Village it felf being furrounded with Palm-trees. The Inn
is a good one, provided with a very good Cifierni
% he 2 yh I travell’d through a plain for three hours, and fiopt at Banam,a)it-
fle City well built at the foot of a high Mountain i upon whi ch appais there-
maihs of a large Cafile, Lenarou is the Frontier T own of the Province of F^r/,
bordering upon the Province of Ldr.
The 2 6th I departed ah hour after midnight, and travell’d till nine in the morn*
ii g, partly through the Plain, ahd partly through the Mountains, where I faW an
old lower for the guard of the Read. Ifiaid at Bihry, a little City featedupona
plain, that borders upon a high Mountain* The Inn is new, and very magnifi -
', cently