'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.' [‎114] (785/1024)

114 A Voyage to Kachemire,
about a little twig of the bignefs of a needle, for fear of breaking them. This, I fay
comforteth me not a little, that 1 find my felf exempt from thefe inconveniencies i my
having vouchfafed me a very particular favour > which is, that he hath appoint
ed to give me every day a new loaf of his houfe, and a Sonray of the water of Ganges
with which he hath laden feveral Camels of his train, as the whole Court doth. Souray
is that Tin-flagon full of water, which the Servant, that marcheth on foot before the
Gentleman on horfeback, carriethin his hand, wrap’t up in a fleeveof red cloth. Or
dinarily it holdeth but one pinte but I had fome of them exprefly made, that hold
two. We (hall fee, whether this cunning will fucceed. The water cooleth very well
in this Flagon, provided that care be hadalwayesto keep the fleeve moifl, and that the
Servant that holds it in his hand, do march and flir the air, or elfe that it beheld
towards the wind i as is commonly done upon three pretty little flicks, croffingone
another, that they may not touch the earth iFor the moiflnefs of the linnen, the agi
tation of the air, or the wind, are abfolutely neceflary to keep the water frefhi as if
this moiflnefs, or rather the water imbibed by the fleeve did keep out the little igneous
bodies or fpirits that are in the air, at the fame time when it giveth entrance to the
nitrous or other parts, which hinder the motion in the water, and caufe coolnefsj in
the fame manner as Glafs keeps out Water, and giveth palfage to the Light, by reafon
of the particular texture and difpofition of the parts of the Gkfs, and the diverlity
there muft be between the particles of Light and thofe of Water. We do not ufe this
Timflagon for keeping our water cool but imthe field: When we are at home, we
have Jars of a certain porous Earth, in which it is much better cooled, provided it be
expos’d to the wind, and moiftenM with a Linnen-cloth, as the Flagon i or elfe, ufe
is made of Salt-peter, as all perfons of quality do, whether in Towns, or in the Army,-
They put water, or any other liquor, to be cooled, in a round and long neckedTin-
flagon, fuch as are the Englifli Bottles, and for the (pace of half a quarter of an hour
this Flagon is flirr’d in water, into which hath been cafi three or four handfuls of
Salt-peter j this maketh the water very cold, neither is it unwholfome, as I did ap
prehend j but only that fometimes it caufeth gripings at firfl when one is not acculbm-
ed to it.
But to what purpofe, to play fo much the Philofopher, when we fhould think to de
part, and to endure the Sun, which at all feafons is incommodious in the Indies, and
tofwallow the dufl, which is never wanting in the Army, to put up, to load, and to
unload every day our Baggage, to help the Servants to faften flicks, to draw Cords,
to put up Tents, and to take them down again, to march in the day, and in the night,
to devour cold and heat, and in a word, to turn Arabians for a year and an half, during
which/ime we are to be in the Field. Adieu) I fliall not fail to acquit my felf of my
promife, and from time to time to inform you of our Adventures i and befides, fince
the Army for this rime will make but (mail Journeys in its march, and pafs on with all
that pomp and magnificence, which the Kings of Indoftan do affedf, I {hall endeavour
to obferve the mofl confiderable things, that I may impart them to you, as foon as we
fball arrive at Labor.