'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.' [‎53] (372/1024)

Book L Travels in India.
The Stone is of a grey colour, and fo hard that I could not fcrape it with iny
Knife. As it is Pyramidical, there is a great Bowl at the top, which is en-
compafs’d# the upper end with huge Grains of Wheat. Ail the fronts of
the Tomb are full of figures of Animals cut in the Stone; and it has been
higher above ground than now it feems to be, for feveral old men, that look’d
to fome of the Sepulchers, afiur’d me, that within thefe fifty years it had funk
above thirty foot into the Earth. They tell you moreover, that it is the Se
pulcher of one of the Kings of Bout an who was interred here after he had left
his own Countrey to conquer this Kingdom, out of which he was driven by
the Succefibrs of Tamerlane. The Kingdom of Boutan is the place from whence
they fetch Musk, and I will give you a defcription of it in my third Book.
1 Itay’d at Banarou the 12th and i^tlo ^ and during thofe two days it rain’d
continually, but not fo as to Hop my journey ; fo that the evening of the thir
teenth day I crofs’d the Ganges, with the Governours Pafs port.. Before you
go into the Boat, they fearch the Travellers baggage} wearing Apparel how
ever pays nothing of Cuftome, but only Merchandife.
The 13^, I went to Baterfour, cofles 2
The iqth, to Satraguy-fera, coltes g
The 15/^, to Moniarky-fera^ coftes p
The fame day in the morning, after I had travel’d two Leagues, I crofs’d a
River call'd Camafarfou, ^ and three Leagues from thence I crofs’d another
which they call SWe-yb#} both which I foarded. *
The to Gourmabadj coftes g
This is a Town upon a River call’d Gondera-fou^ which is crofs’d over a Stone-
Bridg.
The 17?^, to Safer on j coftes 4
Saferon is a City at the foot of certain Mountains, near to which there is
a great Lake. In the middle whereof there is a fmall Illand, with afair Mofquee
built upon it; wherein is to be feen, the Sepulcher of a Nahab or Favourite,
call’d Selim-Kan ^ who built it when he was Governour of the Province. There
is afair Bridg to crofs over into the Ifland, pav’d and lin’d with large free
stone. Upon one fide of the Lake is a great Garden, in the middle whereof
is another fair Sepulcher of the Sun of the fame Nahab^ Selim-Kan^ who fuc-
ceeded his Father in the Government of the Province. If you would go to
the Mine of Sodmelpour^ whereof I Ihall fpeak in the laft Book of thefe Re
lations you mult leave the great Road to Patna, and bend to the South through
ixberbourgh, and the famous Fortrefs of Rhodes^ of which I fhall treat in the
fame place. >
The 18^, I ferry’d in a Boat over the River, Sonfoa, which defcends from,
the Southern Mountains ^ after you have crofs’d it, the Merchandife pays, a cer
tain Toll.
The fame day I travel’d on to Daond-Naearfera. where there is a fair
Tomb, coltes. p
The 19?!?, to Halva-fera^ coltes 1©
The 10th, to Aga-fera, coltes . '"p
In the morning I met a hundred and thirty Elephants, great and fmall, which
they were leading to Dehli to the great Mogul.
The one and twentieth, to Patna, coltes 10
Patna is one of the greatelt Cities of India, upon the Bank of Ganges, to
ward the Welt} not being lefs than two Leagues in length. ButtheHoufes
a re no fairer than in the greatelt part of the other Cities of India ; being
cover’d with Bambouc, or Straw. The Holland Company have a Houfe there,
yreafon of their Trade jn Saltpeter, which they refine at a great Town call’d
m\ar, which is alfo fcituated upon Ganges, ten Leagues above Patna.
Coming xsoPatna,^ met the Hollanders, in the Street returning from Chou-
^ 10 If op’d our Coaches to falute us. We did not part, till we had emptied
j W0 . bottles of Schiras Wine in the open Street} which is not taken notice of
inony t ^ ountr ^’ people meet with an entire freedom without any Cere-
I hay’d eight days at Patna, during which time there fell out an accident,
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