'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.' [‎188] (517/1024)

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Travels in India*
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and which lives all the year long under the trees. The Silks which are made
of this Silk glift’n very much, but they fret prefently. The Country produces
alfo great ftore of Gum-Lake * of which there is two forts, one grows under
the trees of a red colour, wherewith they paint their Linnen,and Stuffs • and
when they have drawn out the red juice, the remaining fubltance ferves to’var
nifh Cabinets, and to make Wax * being the bell Lake in for thofe ulh
As lor their Gold they never fuffer it to be tranfported out of the Kingdom*
nor do they make any Money of it *, but they preferve it all in Ingots which
pafs in trade among the Inhabitants; but as for the Silver, the King coins
it into Money, as is already defcrib’d.
Though the Country be very plentiful of all things, yet there is no fleih which
they elteem fo much as Dogs fleih y which is the greateft delicacy at allFealh •
and is fold every month in every City of the Kingdom upon their Market-days!
There are alfo great ftore of Vines } and very good Grapes, but they never make
any Wine} only they dry the Grapes to make u 4 qua yit*. As for fait they have
none but what is artificial, which they make two wayes. Firft they raife great
heaps of that green Stuff that Swims at the tops of llanding waters, which the
Ducks and Frogs eat, This they dry and burn ; and the allies thereof being
boiPd in a Cloth in water, become very good Salt. The other way moft in ufe
is to take the leaves of Adams Fig-tree, which they dry and burn } the allies
whereof make a Salt fo tart, that it is impolfible to eat until the tartnefs
be tak’n away ; which they do by putting the alhes in water, where they ftir
them ten or twelve hours together } then they ftrain the fubftance through a
Linnen Cloth and boil it; as the water boils away, the bottom thick’ns j and
when the water is all boil’d away they find at the bottom very good and white
Salt.
Of the Alhes of thefe Fig-leaves they make a Lye,wherewith they walh their
Silk, which makes it as white as Snow * but they have not enough to whiten
half the Silk that grows in the Country.
Kenner oof is the name of the City, where the King of Afem keeps his Court-,
twenty-five or thirty days journey from that which was formerly the Capital
City, and bore the fame name. The King requires no Subfidies of his pe&
pie} but all the Mines in his Kingdom are his own •, where for the cafe of his
Subjects, he has none but Haves that work ; fo that all the Natives of Jfm
Uve at their eafe, and every one has his houfe by himfelf, and in the middle of
his ground a fountain encompafs’d with trees and molt commonly everyone
an Elephant to carry their Wives y for they have four Wives, and when they
marry, they fay to one, I take the to ferve me in fuch a thing} to the other,
I appoint the to do fuch bufinefs *, fo that every one of the wives knows what
Ihe has to do in the Houfe. The men and women are generally wellcomplexi-
' on’d j only thofo that live more Southerly are more fwarthy, and notfo fab-
jedt to Wens in their throats ; neither are they fo well featur’d, befides that the
women are fomewhat flat Nos’d. In die Southern parts the people go Hark
naked, only covering their private parts, with a Bonnet like a blew Cap upon
their heads, hung about with Swines teeth. They pierce holes in their ears,that
you may thruft yourThumb in where they hang pieces of Gold and Silver.'
Bracelets alfo of Tortoife-lhells, and Sea-lhells as long as an egg, which they
faw into Circles, are in great efteem among the meaner fort ^ as Bracelets of
Coral and yellow Amber among thofe that are rich. When they bury a man*
all his Friends and Relations rnuft come to the burial } and when they lay the
body in the ground, fh$y all take off their Bracelets from their Arms and Legs*
and bury them with the Corps.
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