'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.' [‎117] (788/1024)

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The Paradife of Indoftan.
Field-pieces, that make up the Artillery of the Sirrup above mention’d, and which dif-
charge all together to falute the King entring into his Tent, and to give notice thereof
to the whole Army.
Before the Gate there is alwayes left void, as much as may be, a great place, at the
end of which there is a great Tent, called Nagar-kgne, becaufe that is the place of the
Timbals and Trumpets.
Near this Tent there kanothef great one, which is called Tchauky+kgne, becaufe it is
the place where the Omrahs keep guard, every one in his turn, once a week twenty four
hours together > yet notwithftanding moft of the Omrahs on the day of their guard,
caufe, clofe by, to be rear’d one of their own Tents, to be the more at liberty, and<to have
more elbow room. , ' • , ‘ :
Round about the thr^e other fides of the great Square are fet up all the Tents of the
Officers, which are alwayes found in the fame order and difpofition, unlefs it be that
the place permit it not: They have all their peculiar names *, but as they are hard to pro
nounce, and I pretend not to teach you the Language of the Country, it will be fuffici-
ent to tell you, that there is a particular one for the Arms of the King-, another for the
tich Hameffes of Horfes i another for Vefts purfl'ed with Gold, which are the ordina
ry Prefents beftow’d by the King. Befides, there are four more, near one another \
the M of which is defigned for keeping Fruit i the fecond for Comfits } the third for
Ganges water, and the Salt-peter to cool it j and the fourth for the Betele^ which is that
Leaf, whereof I have fpoken elfewhere, which is offered to friends, as Coffee is in
and chew’d to make ruddy lips, and afweet breath. Next to thefe, there are ^
fftcen oriixteen others that ferve for Kitchins and what belongs to them. Amongff
all thefe Tents are thofe of a great number of Officers and Eunuchs. Lafily, there are
four or five long ones for led Horfes, and fome others for the beft Elephants , and all
thofe that are for hunting. For there muff needs be a retreat for all that great number
of Birds of prey, that are always carried for Game and Magnificence *, and fo there
muff be for thofe many Vogs^ and thofe Leopards ferving to take wild Goats j for thofe
Nilgauspr gray Oxen,which I take for Kicks i for thefe Lions and Rhinocerofsjhat are led
for greatnefs i for thofe great Bufalo's oiBengale fighting with Lions ) and laffly for theffe
tamed wild Goats, they call Gazelles* that are made to fport before the King.
Thisvaft number of Tents, now fpoken of, together with thofe that are within the
great Square, make up the King’s Quarter, which is always in the middle, and as
’twereinthe center of the Army, except the place do not allow it. It will eafilybe
thence concluded, that this Quarter of the King muff needs be fomething great and
royal, and afford a very fine profped, if one behold from fome high place this great bo
dy of red Tents in the midft of the Army, encamped in a fair and even Campagne, where
may be fully feen all that order and difpolition that is to be obferved in the whole.
After that the Great Marfhalof the Camp hath chofen a place fit for the Kings’s Quar
ter, and hath made ihe Am-kas to be fet up highetf of all the Tents, and by which he
istotakehismeafureforthe ordering and difpofing the reft of the Army accordingly 5
He then marktth out the Royal Bazars or Markets, whence the whole Army is fur-
niffit with neceftaries, drawing the firft and the chief of all,like agreat Street running
firaight, and a great free way traverfing the whole Army, now on the right hand, and
by arid by on the left of the and the King’s Quarter, and always in the ftraight-
efi line that may be towards the encamping of the next day. All the Royal Bazars^
that are neither fo long nor fd broad, commonly crofs this firft, fome on this, others oni
the other fide of the King’s Quarter *, and all thefe Bazars arc difeern’d by very high
Canes like great pearches, which are fixt in the ground from three hundred to three
hundred paces or thereabout, with red Standards, and Cows-tailes of the great Ti- /
bet faftned on the top of thefe Canes like Pcrirwigs.
, The fame M^rftul defigns, next, the place of the Omrahs, fo as they may always
keep the fame order, and be ever as near as may.be the Ring’s Quarter > fome on the
fight, others on the left hand, fome on this fide of him, others beyond himj fo that
none of them may change the place that hath been once appointed for him, or that him-
felf hath defired in the begiiiing of th,e Voyage.
The Quarters of the Omrahs and Rajas, as to their particular order and difpofition,
2 te to be imagined in a manner like that of the King : For commonly they have two
A eicbe-kgnes with a Square ofwhich inclofeth their principal Tent and there of
their Women > and round about thefe are put up the Tents of their Officers and
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