'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.' [‎126] (445/1024)

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Travels in India.
Part II.
C H A P. X.
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Of the Commodities which are brought as well out of the Dominions
of the Great Mogul, as out of the Kingdoms of Golconda and Vifa-
pour, and other neighbouring Territories.
I T will be neceflary for the Reader to take notice what I have already faid con
cerning the weights and Meafures in ufe among the Indians, where I fpoke con
cerning the Mines, and the Serre. Now for the Cobit.
The Cobit is a meafure for all Commodities that are meafur’d by the Ell, of
which there are feveral forts, as in Europe there are feveral forts of Ells. The
Cobit is divided into 24 Tafots: and in regard the greateft part of the Commo*
dities of India are utter’d at Surat, I have giv’n you a defcription in the margin
of the fourth part of a Surat-Cobit, divided into fix Tafots.
Of their Silk?
XT Afembafar, a Village in the Kingdom of Bengala, fends, abroad every year
Av. two anG i twenty-thoufand Bales of Silk \ every Bale weighing a hundefd
pound. The two and twenty Bales make two millions and two-hunder’d-thoufand
pound, at fixteen ounces to the pound. The Hollanders ufually carry away fix or
feven-thoufand Bales,and would carry away more,did not the Merchants of Tar
tary, and the Mogul's Empire oppofe them .* for they buy up as much as the Hol
lander j the reft the Natives keep to make their Stuffs. This Silk is all brought
into the Kingdom of Guz,erat, the greateft part whereof comes to Amadabatgd
to Surat, where it is wrought up.
In the firft place they make Carpets of Silk and Gold, others of Silk and
Silver, others all of Silk ; For the Worfted Carpets are made at Tntapour, fome
twelve leagues from,
In the fecond place they make Satins with ftreaks of Gold and Silver; others
plain ; with Tafrata’s after the fame fafhion.
In the third place they make Patoles, which are a fort of Silk-ftuff very thin,
but painted with all forts of Flowers, the manufa&ure whereof is at Amdahu
They coft from eight Roupies to forty the piece. This is a Commodity wherein
The Hutch will not fuffer any one of the Hollanders to trade in particular* for
they tranfport it to the Pbilippinc-I(lands, to the Iflands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra,
and other neighbouring Blands.
The raw-Si Ik of K afembafar is yellowifh.as are all the raw-Silks that come from
Per fin and Sicily ; but the Natives of Kafembafar have a way to whiten it, with
a Lye made of the Alhes of a Tree which they call Adam s Fig-tree ; which
makes it as white as the Palesline-Silk. The Hollanders fend away all their Mer
chandize which they fetch out oi Bengala, by water, through a great Canal that
runs from Kafembafar into Ganges, for fifteen leagues together; from whence
it is as far by water down the Ganges to Cb/gv/efy,where they laid their Ships.
Of the Calicut s : and firfi ofthe fainted Cakcuts, call'd Chites.
^ Hites or Painted Calicuts,which they call Calmendarfhzt is to fay, done with
a Pencil, are made in the Kingdom of Golconda-, and particularly nbou
Mafiipatan. But there is made fo little, that though a man fhould a
the Workmen that underftand the art of weaving Calicuts, he would nar ;
find enough to make three Bales. . . j.
The Chites which are made in the Empire of the Great Mognhrc all rn ^
and nothing fp beautiful, neither for the figures nor the finenefs ofthe m •
Thofe which are made at Labor,zre the coarfeft,and confequently the c h^P «
ell. They are fold by Gorges, every Gorge confifting of twenty pieces, wm
i6 to 30 Roupies.