'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.' [‎127] (446/1024)

Book IL Travels in India.,
The Chnes which are made at Seronge, are fold from 20 to 50 Roupies the
Gorge, or thereabouts.
Thefe Chites ferve for Coverlets for Beds,for Sofra’s or Table-cloaths after the
Cotmtrey-falhion, Pillowbears,Handkerchiefs,but more efpecially for Wallcoats
as well for men as women in Perfia.
The fine Calicut-C/?/V^ are made at Bramfour ^ and are usM for handkerchiefs
by thofe that fnufF Tobacco.
The women alfo, over all Veils of thefe Calicuts,to wear over their
heads, and about their Ihoulders, which Veils are call’d Or mis.
The Baft as or Calicuts painted red, blue, and black,are carr’id white to Agra,
and Amadabatjn regard thofe Cities are near eft to the places where the Indigo is
made that is us’d in colouring. They coft from two Roupics to 30 or 40 a-piece
according to the finenefs and the quantity of Gold at the ends,and fometimes up
on the fides. The Indians have a- way to dip fome of thefe Calicuts in a certain
water that makes them look like WaterM-Chamlets, which adds alfo to the
price. '
That fort which is fold for two Roupies,and fo onward till ye come to twelve
is tranfported to the Coaft of Mdinda,2$A it is the greateft Trade the Governour
Mozambique drives, who fells them to the Oz/m, that vend them again among
the Abyjfms, and into the Kingdom of Saba: for thofe people not underftanding
the ufe of Soap, need no more but only to wafh thefe Calicuts in water. That
fort which is valu’d from 12 Roupies upward, is tranfported to the Philippine^
Hands, the Wands of Borneo,Java, Sumatra, and other adjacent places. Where
the women wear no other clothes, than a fmgle piece of this Calicut. One part
whereof, without cutting it,ferves fora Petticoat; the other they wind about
their fiomachs and their heads.
White Calicuts,
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w Hite Calicuts come partly from Agra, and about Labor, part from Ben-
gala : fome from Brouda, Baroche, Renonftari, and other places. They
are brought out of the Loom to Renonfari, and r Baroche,Yihzxz they are whiten’d
by reafon of the convenience of their Meadows, and the great ftore of Limons*
that grow thereabouts. For the Calicuts are never fo white as they Ihould be,
till they are dipt in Limon-water.
The Calicuts that come from Agra, Labor, and Bengali, are fold by the Corge,
and they are of feveral prices,from feventeen Roupies to three or four-hunder’d,
as the Merchant will have them wov’n.
The Calicuts that come from Renonfari, and Baroche,art one and twenty cubits
long, new out of the Loom ^ but in the whitening they fhrunk to twenty cu
bits.
Thofe of Brouda twenty cubits from the Loom, and fhrink in the whitening to
nineteen and a half.
All the Calicuts or Bafta’s that come from thefe three Cities, are of two forts ;
for fome are broad, fome are narrow. The narrow are thofe I have already men
tion’d, the prices whereof are various, from two Mamoudt s to fix.
The broad Bafta s are a cubit,and one third part widethe whole piece twenty
cubits long. The ufual price of them is from five Mamoudfs to twelve: but a
Merchant being upon the place,may caufe them to be made much more large and
fane, till they are worth five-hundefd Alamoudts a-piece. 1 faw two pieces fold
lor a thoufand Alamoudi s.
The Englift bought one,and the Hollanders zwoihzr, each piece containing eight
and twenty cubits.
Mahamed Alibeg returning into Perfia out of India, where he had been Em-
balFador, prefented Cha-Scf the fecond with a Coco-nut, about the bignefs of an
rich-egg, all befet with Pearls : and when it was open’d there was taken out
• ll a a Turbant that had fixty cubits of Calicut in length to make it,the Cloathbe-
jpg 10 fine, that you could hardly feel it in your hand.For they will fpin their thread
0 fane, that the eye can hardly difcern it, or at leaft it feems to be but a Cob-
Twifted