'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.' [‎46] (365/1024)

Travels in I n d i a,
' Having paft that Court, you enter into another longand large palKge^with fair
Portico’s on both iides. Under which are feveral little Chambers, where pan of
the Horfe-Guard lies. Thefe Portico’s are rais’d fome two foot above the ground
and the Horfes which are ti’d without, feed upon the fleps. In fome places there
are great Gates that lead to feveral Apartments} as to the Womens Lodging
and to the Seat of jultice. In the midft of the palFage runs a Cut faUpf water
leaving a fair Walk oh each fide, where, at equal diftances, are little Bafons or
Fountains.
This long Paffiige carries you into a great Court, where the Omra^ that is to
fay, the great Lords of the Kingdom, fuch as the BaftJs in Turkey, and the Kntfs
in Perfia, keep Guard in Perfon. They have low Lodgings round about the Court
and their Horfes are ti’d to their doors. 5
From this fecond Court you pafs into a third, through a great Portal; oh one
lide whereof there is a little Hall, rais’d fome two or three fteps high from the
ground. This is the Wardrobe where the Royal Garments are kept; and from
whence the King fends for the CaUat, or a whole Habit for a man, when he
would honour any Stranger or any one of his own Subje&s. A‘little farther,un
der the fame Portal, is the place where the Drums, Trumpets, and Hautboys are
laid up; ’ which they found and beat a little before theKing enters into his Judg
ment-Seat, to give notice to the Omrahh } and they make the fame noife when
the King is ready to rife. Entring into the third Court, you fee the Than before
you, where the King gives Audience. This is a great Hall rais’d fome four-foot-
high above the fuperficies of the Court,with three Tides open. Thirty-two'Pil
lars fullain as many Arches} and thefe Columns are about four-foot-fquare, with
Pedeftals and Mouldings. When Cha-jehan firlt began to build this Hall; he in
tended to have enrich’d it, and inlaid it all over with thofe Stones that feem to be
naturally painted, like thofe in the Great Duke of Tufcanys Chappel. But having
made a trial upon two or three Pillars, about two or three-foot-high, he found
that there would not be Stones enough, of that fort, in the World to finifh the
work y belides the valtnefs of the Sum it would come to. So that he left off
his delign, contenting himfelf with a Painting of feveral flowers.
In the middle of this Hall, next to the fide which looks toward the Court,
there is a Throne ere&ed upon a kind of Theater, where the King gives Audience,
and pronounces Judgment. The Throne is a little Bed with four Columns, about
thebignefs of one of our Field-beds, with a Canopy, Backpiece, Boulfter and
Counterpoint, all embroider’d with Diamonds. Befides all this, when the King
comes to fit upon the Throne, they throw over the Bed a Coverlet of Cloath of
Gold, or fome other richly-embroider’d Silk y and he afcends by three little
Reps, two-foot-broad. On one lide of the Bed is eredted an Vntbrello upoi
a Staff, as long as an Half-Pike. Upon one of the Pillars of the Throne hangs
one of the King’s Weapons ; upon another his Buckler; upon another hisSci-
metar ; and then his Bow and Quiver of Arrows, and other things of the fame na
ture. .
Below the Throne there is a place,fome twenty-foot-fquaire, encompafl: with
Balullers which at fome times are cover’d with Plates of Silver, at other times
with Plates of Gold. At the four Corners of this fraallenclofurefit the four Se
cretaries of State, who as well in Civil as Criminal Caufes, do the duty of ad
vocates. Many Lords Rand about this Baluflrade ; and there is alfo the Mulick
plac’d, that plays all the while the King is in the Than. This Mufick is fo fweet
and Toft, that it never takes off the mind from the ferioufnefs of bufinefs at that
time manag’d. The King being fat upon his Throne,fome great Lords Rand by
him ; generally it is fome one of his own Children. Between eleven a Clock
and Noon, the Nahab, who is the chief MiniRer of State, like the Grand Tiher
in Turkey, makes a report to the King of what has paR in the Chamber where he
Prefides, which is at the Entry of the firR Court; and when he has done fpeak-
ihg, &he King rifes. For you muR take notice, that from the time that the King
is fate upon his Throne,till he rifes, no perfon whatfoever is permitted to flir out
of the Palace y and yet I can lay that the King difpenc’d with my performance o
this Law fo generally obferv’d by all the Court: The dccafion whereof was t us
in fhort. " _ • _
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