'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.' [‎129] (448/1024)

Book If. Travek in I n d i a.
Handing all this caution, they that have fifted Indigo for nine or ten days, fhall
fpit nothing but blew for a good while together. Once I laid an Egg ’in the
morning among the lifters, and when I came to break it in the evening it was
all blew within. , : ;
As they take the Pafte out of the Baskets with their Fingers dipt in Oil, and
make it into Lumps, or Cakes they lay them in the Sun to dry. Which is the
reafon that when the Merchants buy Indigo, they burn fome pieces of it, to try
whether there be any dull among it. For the Natives who take the Pafte out
of the Baskets to make it into Lumps, lay it in the Sand, which mixes with the
Pafte, and fouls it. But when the Merchants burn it, the Indigo turns to Alhes
and the Sand remains. The Governours do what they can to make the Natives
leave their Knavery; but notwithftanding all their care, there will be fome de
ceit.
Salt-Peter.
/^Reat ftore of Salt-Teter comes from j 4 gra and Patna - 7 but the refin’d cofts
^ three times more than that which is not. The Hollanders have fet up a
Ware-Houfe fourteen Leagues above Patna, and when their Salt-Peter is re
fin’d, they tranfport it by Water by Ogneli. A Mein of refin’d Salt-Peter is worth
feven Mamoudi’s. ^
Spice.
C Ardamom, Ginger, Pepper, Nutmegs, Nutmeg-Flowers,Cloves and Cinna
mon, are all the different forts of Spices known to us. I put Cardamom,
snd Ginger in the firft place becaufe that Cardamom grows in the Territories
of Pifafour, and Ginger in the Dominions of the Great Mogul. And as for
other Spices, they are brought from other Forreign parts to Surat, which is the
grand Mart.
- Cardamom is the moft excellent of all other Spices, but it is very fcarce ;
and in regard there is no great ftore in the place where it grows, it is only
nadeufe ofin Jlfia, at the Tables of great Princes. Five hundred pound of
Cardamoms, are priz’d from a hundred to a hundred and ten Reals*
Ginger is brought in great quantities from Amadabat, where there grows
more than in any other part of Afla ; and it is hardly to be imagin’d how much
there is tranfported candied into Foreign parts.
Pepper is of two forts. There is a fort which is very fmall, another fort
much bigger v both which forts are diftinguifh’d into fmall and great Pepper.
The larger fort comes from the Coaft of Malay are , and Tuticorin and Calicut
are the Cities where it is brought up. Some of this Pepper comes from the
Territories of the King of Fifapour, being vended zt Rejapour, a little City m
that Kingdom. The Hollanders that purchafe it of the Malavares, do not give
Money for it, but feveral forts of Commodities in Exchange j as Cotton, Opium,
Vermillion v and Quickfilver \ and this is the Pepper which is brought into Eu-
rope^. As for the little Pepper that comes from Bantam, Afcben, and fome other
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1 he little Pepper that comes to Surat, has been fold fome years for thir-
een or fourteen Mamoudi’s the Mein y and fo much I have feen the Enghjh
give tor it, to tranfport it to Ormus, Balfara, and the Red Sea. As for the
great Pepper which the Hollanders fetch from the Coaft of Malayare, five hun-
rea p©und in truck brings them in not above thirty-eight Reals j but by the
ommodities which they give in Barter, they gain Cent> per Cent.
he Nutmeg, the Nutmeg-Flow’r, the Clove, and Cinnamon, are the only
pices which the have in their own hands. The three firft come
jom the Molucca lllands *, the fourth, which is Cinnamon, from the Ifland of
i^nbiuwdrutne £ait,there is noneot it carried out ot Apa, where it is fpent
m vaft quantities, efpecially among the Alahumetans. For there are double the
Grams of fmall Pepper in one pound, to what there are of the great Pepper j
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