'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.' [‎94] (413/1024)

Travels in India.
Parc II.
Town till the nextdty in the evening,where we obferv’d,that when the Inhabi
tants fetch their water to drink,they flay till the Sea is quite out, and then die.
ging holes in the Sand as ueer the Sea as they can, they meet with freih.
^The twelfth, we departed from Calicat,md the next morning about ten of the
clock we came toMadrefpata^oth&vmit call’d Fort St. George, which belongs to
the Englijh, having travelled not above feven or eight leagues that day. We lay
at the Covent of Capuchins, at what time Father Ephraim, and Father Zem
were both there.
The fifteenthjWe went to St, Thomas’s Town, to fee the ^/^-Friars^nd the
Jefuits Church,in the firft whereof is an Iron-lance, wherewith they fay that St.
Thomas was Martyr’d. . :
The two and twentieth, in the morning we departed from Madrefpaun, and
after a journey of five leagues we arriv’d at a large Town call’d Serravmn.
The three and twentieth, after 7 leagues travel,we came to the whole
days journey being over a flat fandy Countrey.On each fide there are onlyCopfes
of Bambotis that grow very high. Some of thefe Copfes are fo thick,that it is im-
poflible for a man to get into them ; but they are pefter’d with prodigious num
bers of Apes: Thofe that breed in the Copfes upon onefide of the way,are ene
mies to them that are bred on the other fide} fo that they dare not crofs from
one lide to the other, but they are in danger of being immediately ftrangPd.
Here we had goodfport by fettingthe Apes together by theears y which isdone
after this manner. This part of the Country, at every leagues end, is clos’d up
with Gates and Barr icado’s where there is a good Guard, kept, and whereall Fal
len gers are examin’d whither they go, and whence they corner fo that men may
fafely travel there with their Money in their hands. In feveral parts of this Road
there is Rice to be fold; and they that would fee the fport, caufe five or fix
Baskets of Rice to be fet in the Road, fome forty or fifty paces one from the
other,and clofe by every Basket they lay five or fix battoons about two-foot-long,
and two inches about; then they retire and hide thcmlelves .* prefently they lhall
fee the Apes on both Tides of the way defcend from the tops of the Bambous,
and advance toward the Baskets which are full of Rice: They are about half an
hour fhewing their teeth one at the other before they come near the Baskets ,
fometimes they advance, then retreat again,being loath to encounter. ^ Atlength
the female-Baboons, who are molt couragious than the males, efpecially thofe
that have young ones, which they carry in their arms, as woman do their Chil
dren, venture to approach the Basket, and as they are about to put in their heads
to eat, the males on the other fide advance to hinder them. Immediately the
other party comes forward, and thus the feud being kindled on both fides, they
take up the Battoons that lie by the Baskets, and thrafh one another in good
earnefl:. The weakelt are conftrain’d to flie into the wood with their pates bro
ken, and their limbs maim’d; while the Mailers of the Field glut themfelves with
Rice. Though it may be, when their bellies are full, they will foffer fome of the
female-party to come and pertake with them. .
The four and twentieth, we travell’d nine leagues, all the way being like the
Road the day before,as far as Naratieron. ^
The five and twentieth, after a journey of eight hours, through a Countrey ot
the fame nature, meeting at every two or three leagues end with Gates and
Guards, we came in the evening to GawL
The lix and twentieth, we traveled nine leagues,and came to lie at Courva,
where there was nothing to be found neither for Man nor Beall, fo that our at-
tel were forc’d to be contented with a little Grafs,which was cut on purpoie or
them. Coarva is only a celebrated Paged 5 by which, at our arrival, we law e-
veral bands of Souldiers pafs by, fome with Half-pikes, fome with Muskets, an
fome with Clubs, who were going to joyn with one of the principal
ders of Mirgimolas Army, who was encamp’d upon a riling-ground not tar r
Courva the place being pleafant and cool, by reafon of the great num e
Trees and Fountains that grace it. When we underllood the Captain was
we went to wait upon him,and found him fitting in his Tent vvith m . aii y f p ke1>
the Country all Idolaters. After we had prefented him with a pair 0 p.^ g