'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.' [‎77] (748/1024)

Cities of Indoftan. 77
It is nov^ about forty years that Cbab-Jeban, Father of the Grand-Mogol
Zebe now reigning, to eternize his memory, caufed to Be built a Town contiguous to
old Veblf which he called after his Name Cbab-Jean-Abad, and by way of abbreviation
Jean-Abad j that is to fay, a Colony of Cbab-Jeban? defigning to make it the Capital
of the Empire, inftead of Agra, where he faid, that the Summer heats were too vio
lent. This nearnefs hath occafioned, that the ruines of old Debli have ferved to build
a new City > and in the JMex they fcarce fpeak any more of Debit, but only of Jeban-
Ahtd, Yet notwithftanding, fince the City of Jehan-Abad is not yet known amongft
us, f intend to fpeak of it under the old name of Debit, which is familiar to us.
Debit then is a Town altogether new, feated in a plain Campagne, upon a River like
our hoire, called Gemna, and built along one fide of the River only i there being but one
Boat-bridge to paf$ over into the Plain. This Towrvis furrounded with Walk, except
the River fide: thefe Walls are of Bricks, and without a confiderable defence, they be
ing without a Ditch, and having nothing to flank them but round Towers after the old
way, diftant from each other an hundred common paces, and a rampart behind them,
four or five foot thick. The cornpafs of thefe Walls, comprising the Fdrtrefs, is not fo
big as is commonly believed: I have gone it round with eafe in three hours i and I be
lieve not, though I was on Horfeback, that I difpatched more than one league in aii
hour: 5 tis true, that if you will take into the Town a very long Suburb, which goeth
towards Lab§r> as alfo what remains inhabited of old Debli, which is likewife a great
and very long Suburb, and befides, three or four fmall Suburbs moife, all that would
make in a dired: line above a league and a half, and fuch a compafs which I cannot well
determine, becaufe that between the Suburbs are great Gardens, and large fpaces not
built > but I may fay, that thus taken it would be bt a prodigious bignefs.
The Fortrefs, in which is the oc Seraglio, and the other Royal Apartments,
which I (hall hereafter fpeak of, is built round upon the River i yet there is between the
Water and the Walls a pretty large and long fandy fpace, where commonly Elephants
are exercifed, and where frequently the Militia of the Omrahs and Rajas is muflered in
the King’s prefence, who looks out of the Windows of one of his Apartments. The
Walls of the Fortrefs, as to their round antick Towers, are very neat like thofe of the
Town, but they are partly of Bricks, and partly of a certain red Stone refembling Mar
ble, which maketh them look fairer than thofe of the Town i befides that, they are
much higher, flronger and thicker, being able to bear fome Field-pieces that are there
planted towards the Town j and incompaffed alfo, excepting that fide which refpe&s
the River, with a fair Ditch, walled up with Free-ftone, fullof Water and Fifh. But
yet whether they are confiderable for ftrengtha battery of fome middle fized Cations
would, in my opinion, foon caft them down.
Round about the Ditch there is a pretty large Garden, at all times full of Flowers and
greAi Apricocks, which together with thofe great Walls all red, maketh a very fine
fight.
About this Garden is the great Street, or rather the great Place Royal, to which the
two great and principal Gates of the Fortrefs do anfwer, and to thefe Gates the two
chief Streets of the Town.
In this great Place it is, where the Tents of the Rajas are, that are in the King’s Pay,
to keep there every one in his turn their weekly Guard i whereas the Omrabs and the
Manfebdars, or fmall Omrabs, keep it within the Fortrefs, Thefe little Soveraigns are
not pleafed to fee themfelves thus and fo long ftiut up in a Fort.
In this very Place it is, where at the break of day are exercifed the Horfes of a^ long
Royal Stable, near it. And here ’tis alfo, that the Kobattyn, or great Commilfioner
of the Cavalry, carefully vieweth the Horfes of thofe Cavaliers, that have been received
into Service, to the'end that if thefe Horfes are of ‘furkjfian, or fartary, and large and
firongenough for Service, the King’s Mark, and that of the Omrahs, under whom fuch
Cavaliers are to be lifted, may be branded upon th^m : A thing not ill devifed, to pre
vent the mutual Loan of Horfes in the Mufters.
This fame Place is alfo a kind of Bazar, or Market, of an hundred things fold there,
and a Rendezvous of Players, and Jugkrs of all forts, as the Pont-neuf at P arif» It is no
kfs the Meeting-place of the poor Afirokgers, as well Mabumetan as Heathen. Thefe
Doctors (forfoothj fit therein the Sun upon a piece of Tapeftry, all covered with duft,
having about them fome*o!d Mathematical Inftruments, which they make ftiew of to
draw Paflengefs, and a great open Book reprefenting the Animals of the Zodiac^ Thefe
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