'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.' [‎65] (384/1024)

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Travels in India.
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Elephants that carry Cages, which in fome fort referable the Body of a little
Coach} there are others that have but one man to guide them, and another
in the Cage who carries a Banner.
After the Elephants, follow the Camels by two and two, fometimes to the
number of thirty or forty . Every Camel carries a kind of Packfaddle, upon
which is fatten’d a little Culverine, which a certain Engineer, clad in a skin from
head to foot, and. fitting upon the‘Crupper of the Camel, with a lighted Match
in his hand, dextroufly manages from one fide to another before the Balcone, V
where the King fits. \ ; - v ; /; ^ -
After them come the Coaches, attended by the Domettick Servants of the
Commander: Next to them follow the lead-Horfes, and then the Lord appears,
to whom all this Equipage belongs, attended by ten or twelve Curtifans,that ttay
for him at the end of the Bridg, an skip and dance before him to the ?i^a.
Behind him the Cavalry and infantry march in good order.* which being afhew,
wherein there was much of delight and ftate, all the while I ftaid at Bagnabar^
which was about four Months, I had the divertifement to fee them out of my
Lodging in the great Street every week as they march’d by.
The So'uldiers wear no other Clothes than only three or four ells of Calicut,
with which they cover half their Bodies behind and before. They wear their
hair very long, and tie it up in a knot upon the top of the crown, like the wo
men, who have no other Headgear than only a piece of Linnen with three cor
ners, one that comes to the middle of the head, and the other two, which they
tie under their chins. The Souldiers do not wear Hangers or Scimitars like the
Per fans ; but broad Swords like the Switzers, as well for a thruft, as a blow,
which they hang in a Girdle. The Barrels of their Muskets are ftronger than
ours, and much neater} for their Iron is better, and not fo fubjedt to break.
Their Cavalry carry .Bows and Arrows, a Buckler and a Battel-Ax, an Headpiece
and a Jacket of Mail, that hangs down from the Head-piece over their Shoul
ders. . -,v • ..’r.
There are fp great a number of comfnon Women as well in the City as in the
Suburbs, and in the Fortrefs, which is like another City, that there are generally
above twenty thoufand fetdown in the Derogas Book; without which licence,it
is not lawful for any Woman to profefs the Trade. They pay no tribute to the
King} only they are oblig’d to come, a certain number of them, with their Go-
vernefs, and their Mufick every Friday,and prefent themfelves before the Balcone.
If the King be there, they dance before him. if he intend not to come,an Eunuch
comes into the Balcone, and makes them a fign to retire. In the cool of the
evening they ftand at the doors of their Houfes, which are for the moft part little
Huts} and when night comes,they fet up a Candle or a lighted Lamp for a Signal .*
Then it is alfo that they open all the Shops where they fell Tari } which is a cer
tain drink made of the juice ofa Tree, and is as Sweat as our new Wines. They
fetch it fome five or fix league off,upon Horfes,that carry two earthen-Bottles of
each fide, and trot at a great rate *, of which there come every day to the City
above five or fix hunder’d. This King hasaconfiderable Revenue by the Impott
which he lays upon this Tari. And for that reafon he permits fo many common
Women, in regard ids for their fake that fo much Tari is confum’d 7 thofe that
fell it, for that caufe, keeping their Shops by thofe Houfes.
Thefe fort of Women are fo nimble and adtive,that when the prefent King went
to fee Majli^atan^ nine of them undertook to reprefent the figure of an Elephant,
four making the four feet, four the body, and one the trunk} upon which the
King, fitting in a kind of Throne, made his entry into the City.
All the Men and Women of Golconda are well proportion’d, and of comely,
ttatures; and fair enough in their countenances} only the Country-people are a
little more fwart.
~The prefent King of Golconda bears the Name of Abdbul~Coutou-Sha ^ and I
will tell the Reader in a few words, from whence he drew his Original. ’ In the
lyeign Axbar King of India, the Father of Jehan-Gdr, the Territories of the
wh^ not exten d farther Southward then Narbider *, fo that the River
ich runs by it, and which coming from the South, empties it felfinto Ganges,
e P ara ted their Dominions from the Territories of the Raja King of Narfwgm, that
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