'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.' [‎68] (739/1024)

The Hijlory.of the Empire
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Their Axtillery is of two forts? the one is the great and heavy Artillery, the other
the light. As for the former, 1 remember, that whejj the King after his Sicknefs went
with his whole Army abroad into the Country, diverting himfelf .every day in Hunt
ing, fometimes of Cranes, fometimes of the gray Oxen, fa kind of Elks.) fometimes
of Gazels, Leopards and Lions, and making his progrefs towards Labor and Kacb-
mire (that little Paradife of India ) there to pafs the Summer, the Army had Seventy
pieces of Cannon, molt of them call, not counting the two or three hundred Camels
carrying each a fmall Field-piece of the bignefs of a good double Mufquet, faflned to
thofe Animals. The other light Artillery is very brave and well order’d, confiding 0 f
fifty or fixty fmall Field-pieces all of Brafs, each mounted on a little Chariot, verydine
and well painted, with a fmall Coffer before and behind for the Powder, drawn L
two yery fair Horfes, driven by a Coachman like a Cakche, adorned with a number of
fmall red Streamers, each having a third Horfe led by the Chariot for relief;
The great Artillery could not always follow the King, who often left the Highway
and turn’d fometimes to the right, fometimes to the left hand, eroding the fieids,toffhd
the true places for Game, and to follow the courfe of the Rivers, lhat therefore was
to keep the Highway to go the more eafily, and to avoid the embarafments, which ic
would have met with in the ill paflages, efpecially in thofe Boat-Bridges made to pafs
Rivers. The light Artillery is infeparable from the perfon of the King, it marcheth
away in the morning, when the King comes out of his Tent v and whereas he com
monly goes a little atide into the places for Game, this Artillery paffeth on ftraight with
all poffible fpeed, to be in time at the Rendezvous, and there to appear before the
King’s Tent, which is there made ready the day before i as are alfo the Tents of the
great Omrahs : And this whole Artillery giveth a Volley juff when the King enters into
his Tent, thereby to give notice to the Army of his arrival.
The Militia of the Field is not different from that which is about the King: There
are everywhere Omrahs, Manfebdars, Roufindars, fimple Horfemen, and Foot and Ar
tillery where-ever any War is made. The difference is only in the number,which is rr^ch
greater in the Field-Army, than in the other. For that Army alone, which the Mogol
is conftram’d perpetually to maintain in Vecan, to bridle the potent King of Golkonda,
and to make War upon the King of Fifapmrjmd upon all the Raja’s that join with him,
muff confift at leaft of twenty, or twenty five thoufand Horfe, fometimes of thirty.
The Kingdom of Kaboul^ for its ordinary Guard againft the Perfians^ Augans , P>a-
Inches, and I know not how many Mounteniers, requireth at leaft Fifteen thoufand.
The Kingdom of Kachmin, more than Four thoufand i and the Kingdom of Bengale,
much more j not counting thofe that are employ’d in the War, which muff almoff al
ways be maintain’d on that fide* nor thofe which the Governors of the feveral Provin
ces do need for their defence, according to the particular extent and fituation of their
Governments, which maketh an incredible number.
Not to mention the Infantry, f which is inconfiderable ) I am apt to believe with
many others,well inform’d of thefe matters,that the number of the Horfe in a&ualfer-
vice about the King’s Perfon, comprehending the Cavalry of the Raja’s and Patatir,
mounteth to Thirty five or forty thoufand i and that this number, joined to thofe that
is abroad in the Field, may make Two hundred thoufand, and better.
I fay, that the Infantry is inconfiderable i for I can hardly believe, that in the Army
which is about the King, comprifing the Mufquetiers, and all the Gunners and their
Mates, and whatever ferves in this Artillery, can amount to much more than Fifteen
thoufand i whence you may make a near guefs, what the number of the Foot muff be
in the Field. So that I know not whence to take that prodigious number of Foot
which fome do reckon in the Armies of the Great Mogol, unlefs it be, that with this
true Soldiery they confound all the Serving-men and Vi&uallers that follow the Armyi
for in that fenfe I fhould eafily believe, that they had reafon to reckon two or three hun
dred thoufand men in thatArmyalone which is with the King, and fometimes more*
efpecially when ’tis certain, that he is to be long abfent from the Capital City : which
will not feem fo ftrange to him,that confiders the multitude and confufion of Tents,Kit
chens, Baggage, Women, Elephants,Camels, Oxen, Horfes, Waiting-men, Porters,Fora!-
gers, Victuallers, Merchants of all forts, that muff follow the Army i nor to him, that
knows the State and particular Government of that Country, wherein the King is the
foie Proprietor o f all the Lands of the Kingdom? whence it neceffarily follows, that a
whole Metropolitan City, fuch as Vehly and Agra, Hveth of almoff nothing but of the
Soldiery,