'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.' [‎81] (752/1024)

Cities of Indoftan.
They have no Capons, all that People bang too tender-hearted towards all Animal*
but Men, whom they need for then Seraglios. But the Markets are full of Hen* That
are very good and cheap : Among the reft there is one fort of little ones, that I hailed
/Ethiopian Mens, becattfe they have them skin black like which are very
tender and very delicate. r 5 vcr /
Pidgeons 'hereare but no young ones, becaufe they will not kill them young; they
wou d be ( fay they ) too fmall and it were ill done to kill fuch poor little Animals. 5
There are alfo Partridges, but fmaller than ours, and generally ( feeing they brin»
them afar off alive, knowing how to take them with Nets ) they are wcrfe than ou-
b ' “ "" l - Dud,! “ d 'hey .Ifot
Concerning Fijh, the People here are no great FiOi-mongers i yet at times one meefq
with very good F,(h, cfpecially of two forts, the one refemble Jour Pike, and theo-
ther our Carp ; but that is only when it is not cold, for the Indians fear that much more
han we Europeans apprehend heat. And if at any time you meet accidentally with any,
the Eunuchs, who love them exceffively, (I know not why J) carry them prefently 1 -
way. None but the (Wuhave power to make men hih when they pkafe, which
they do with the that great common Whip always hanging at their Gates.
from all that Ihavefaid, you may by the By fee, whether a man ought to leave Pa-
re to come to Debit to make good cheer. Certainly the Grandees have all thines but
that is upon the account of their many Servants, of the and of the plenty of
Money. And thence it was I once faid, that at Vehli there is no mean ; there you muff
either be a great Lord, or live miferably : for I have cxperienced.it my felf, in a man
ner dying ot Hunger this good while, though I have had conliderable Pay, and was re-
lolved to ipare nothing that way, becaufe commonly there is found nothing in the Mar
kets but the refufe of the Grandees. Befides that, the foul of aFeaft which is good
Wine, is not there; not that no Grapes do grow there to make Wine, ( for 1 have
drunk tome itAmadevad and Golkonda, in theHoufesof and Hollanders, that
was not ill > but becaufe it is prohibited to make Wine, in regard that not only by the
Uw ot Mahomet, but alfo by that of the Heathen, it is not permitted to drink any : So
that it is very rare to find Wine, and that which we find comes out of Perfia from
by Land to Bandefabafy, from thence by Sea to Smatte, and from hither by Land
A r itCOmeS fr ° m tiic Canaries, brought alfoover Sea to Smatte by
the Dutch. And both are fo dear, that the coft ( as the faying is ) maketh it lofe the
taite, tor a Bottle holding about three pints cometh often to fix or feven
Crowns, and more. That which is of this Countreys growth is called Arac, a ftron*
Water made of Sug^r not refined, and even this is expreily prohibited to be fold, and
there are none but fhnftians that dare drink of it, except others do it by health. This
is a Drink very hot and penetrant, like the Brandy made of Corn in Poland. It fo falls
upon the Nerves, that it often caufeth (baking Hands in thofe that drink a little too
much of it, and cafis them into incurable Maladies. Here we muff accuftom our felves
to fair and good Water, and to Lemonade, which is excellent, and may be made with
imall charges, and doth not fpoil the Stomach. But to fay all, a man hath no great in
clination, in fuch hot Countries as thefe to drink Wine j and I am willing notice fhould
be here taken together with me, that the abftinence from Wine in thefe Parts, ioyned
° the general fobriety of the Natives, and to the fweats and perpetual tranfpiration
made by the pores, are the caufe ( in my opinion J that we almoft know not what is
neCout, the Stone, Aches of the Kidneys, Rheumatifms, Quartans , and that thofe
mat bring any of thefe Sickneffes hither, as I did, are at length totally freed from them:
and further, that the Pox it felf, though very frequent, is not fo cruel nor fo pernicious
nere as m Europe : fo that People generally live here more healthily than with us. But
men on the other hand, there is not fo much vigour here in People, as in our cold Cli~
rnaf i and this feeblenefs and languor of body is a kind of perpetual malady, very
troubleiom to all, efpecially in the great heats of Summer, and efpecially to the Europe-
ans, whofe bodies are not yet inured to heat.
As for Shops of excellent Handy-craftfmen, that is alfo a thing we mufi: not look fof
nere : all we find is but very little j not that the Indians have not wit enough to make
nem fuccefsful in Arts, they doing very well (astofome of them ) in many Parts of
^ 5 , li bdn g ^und tbat they have inclination enough for them, and that feme of
em make ( even without a Mafkr ) very pretty woskmanlhip, and is&itate fo well