'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.' [‎115] (786/1024)

The Paradije of Indoftan.
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THE SECOND LETTER;
CONTAINING
The Number and Magnificence, the Order and the Difpofition of the Tents o
the Great Mogol in the Field: The Number of Elephant sfiamels,Mules and
Porters, necejfary to carry them : The Difpofition of the Bazars or Royal
Markets : That of the particular Quarters of the Omrahs, or Lords and
of the reft of the Army : The extent of the whole Army, when encamped:
The confufion there met with ; and how it may be avoided : The Order of
preventing Robberies: The different Manners of the March of the KJm,
the Princeffes, and the reft of the Seraglio : The danger there is in hew#
too near the Women : The feveral ways of the Royal Hunting, and hm
the Kjng hunts with his whole Army: The abundance of people there is in
the Army, and the method of making them all fuhft/h
SIR,
T His indeed is called marching with gravity, and as we fpeak here a la Mogole, : it is
no more but fifteen or fixteen dayes Journey from Dehli to Labor, which make lit
tle more than fixfcore Leagues > and yet we have fpent almoft two months on this way.
Tistrue, the King with the heft part of the Army went fomewhatafide from the high*
way, the better to enjoy the divertifcments of Hunting, andfor the conveniency of the
water of Gemna, which we went to look for on the right hand, and which we leifurely
followed long enough in our hunting, crofting fields of tall grafs, full of all forts of
game, where the Horfemen could fcarce be feem At prefent, whilft we are at reft, I
am going to make good what I have promifed you in the Title of this Letter j ho
ping (hortly to make you come to Kacbemhe, and to (hew you one of the heft Coun
tries in the World.
When the King is in the field , he hathufually two Camps, I mean two Bodies, of
Tents feparated, to the end that when he breaketh up and leaveth one, the other may
nave paired before by a day, and be found ready when he arriveth at the place defign’d
to encamp it: And ’tis therefore, that they are called Peiche^kanes as if you fhould fay,
Houfes going before; Thefe two Peicke-kgnes are almoft alike, and there are requifite a-
bove threefcore Elephants, more then two hundred Camels, above an hundred Mules,
and as many more Porters to carry one of them. The Elephants carry the moft bulky
things, fuch as are the great Tents, and their great Pillars, which being too long and too
heavy, are taken down in three pieces. The Camels carry the lefler Tents: TheMulesy
the Baggage and Kitchins. And to the Porters are given all the little moveables, and
fuch as are delicate and fine, that might eafily be broken i as Porcelain,which the King
wfually imployeth at Table: thofe painted andguilded Beds, and thofe rich*
which I {hall fpeak of hereafter.
One of thek two Peicbe-tynef, or Bodies of Tents, is no fooner arrived at the place
defigncd for encamping, but the Great Marftial that orders the Lodging, chufeth fome
fair place for the Kings Quarters *, yet with a regard, as much as is poftible, to theSym-
rcitry and order that is to be obferved for the whole Army 5 and he marketh out a
Square, of which each fide is above three hundred ordinary paces long. An hundred
Pikemen prefently clear and level this pace,making fquare planes to raife theTents upon,
and furrounding all this great Square with Kanates or Skreens feven or eight foot high,
which they faften with cords tyed to flicks, and with perches fix’t in the ground, by
couples, from ten to ten paces, one without, and the other within, inclining the one
upon the other. Thefe Kanates are made of a ftrong cloth lined with ftained Linnen.
In the middle of oneof, the tides of this Square is the Entry or Royal Gate, great and
Magnificent, and the Indian fluff which ’tis made of, as alfo thofe Stuft's, of which the
whole fide of the Square of the face is lined without, are far better and richer than
me others.
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