'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.' [‎206] (535/1024)

oneof the Souldiers Ar^s, W^ch the Ser^gt ^rcfivj^g, to mediately r l0 t the
Lion with his Carbine j but when he was dead, they had much ado to open the
Lions mouth, to get out the Souldiers Arm. Thus it appears a vulgar error
to believe that Lions would not come near the fire. As tor the Souldier, the cl
fres cur’d his Arm in twelve days. There arc in the Fort abundance of Lion*
and Tigers Skins ; among the reft, there was the Skin of a Horfe which theCV
fres had kill’d } it was white,crofs’d with black ftreaks, fpotted like a leopard
without a Tail. Two or three Leagues from the Hollanders Fort, there was a
Lion found dead,with four Porcupines Qills in his body, the third part were-
of had piercM his fiefti. So that it was judg’d that the Porcupine had kill’d
the Lion. The Skin, with the Quills in it, |s kept in the Fort,
A League from the Fort, is a fair Town, that grows bigger and bigger every
day. When the Holland Company arrives there with their Ships, if any Souk
dier or Mariner will live there,they are very glad of it.They have as much ground
as they can mannage } where they have all forts of Herbs, and Pulfe, and as
much Rice, and as many grapes as they can defire. They have alfo young
Oftridges, Beef, Sea-fifh, and fweet water. To catch the Oftridges, when they
pleafe, they got their Nefts when they were young, and driving a flake in the
ground, tye the Birds by one Leg to the ftake, and when they are old enough
they come and take them out of the Neft, from whence it is impoiFible to %
away.
When the Hollanders began to inhabit the Ca%e r they took a young Girl from
her M°ther, as fbon as Ihe was born y fhe is white, only her Nofe is a little flat
A French man got her with Child, and would have marry’d her y but the Com
pany were fofar from permitting him, that they took away above a hundred
Livres of the Maids wages from her, to punilh her for the mifdemeanour, which
was fomewhat hard. \
There are great numbers of Lions and Tigers, which the Hollanders have a
pretty invention to take; they faften a Carbine to a ftake, driv’n into the Earth,
and lay meat round about the Gun, which meat is faften’d with a firing to the
Trigger. So that when the Beaft fnatches the meat, the String pulls the Trig
ger, and the Gun going off, hits the Lion either in the throat or the breall.
The Cafres feed upon a Root like our Skerrets, which they roll and make
bread of. Sometimes they grind it into flower, and then if tafts like a Wal
nut/ For their food they eat the fame Root raw, with raw Filh *, with the En
trails of Beafts, out of which they only fqueeze the ordure. As for the bowels
of the wild Beafts, the women wear them dry’d about their Legs, cfpedally
the bowels of thofe Beafts which their Husbands kill, which they look upon as
a kind of Ornament. They allb feed upon T ortoifes,when they have fo far heat
ed them at the fi e, as to make the Shells come off. They are very expert in darting
their Az-agayJs ; and thofe that have none, make ufe of pointed fticks^ which
they will lance a great way. With thefe they go down to the Sea-fide, and as
foon as ever they fpy a Filh near the top of the water, they will not fell t0
ftrike him. '/
As for their Birds, which are like our Ducks, whofe Eggs are without any
Yolk; they breed in fuch great quantities in the Country, that in a Bay about
eighteen Miles from the you may knock them on the head with a Hick,
The Hollanders once earn’d a young Cafre to tfie General at Batavia., who
bred him carefully up, teaching him to underftand the Dutch and, Portugal lan
guages perfectly well. At length being defirous to return into his Country, the
General gave him very good Cloaths,and good Linnen,hoping that ho would have
liv’d among the Hollanders, and been ferviceable to them in the dicovery of me
Country, but fo foon as he got home,he fiunghis Cloaths i’ theSea,and returner
wild among his fellow Natives, eating raw fielh as he did before, and quite for
getting his Benefactors. ' r • ... v
^ When the Cafres go a hunting, they, go a great, number together, and M
fuch a prodigious howling and yelling, that they fright the very Beafts tpe
felves, and in that affright with cafe deftroy them j and.I have been aiiur »
that their cries do terrfie the Lions themfelves. . ,
The women are of fo hot a Conftituuou of Bp£y, th?f.atthe.ttoes