'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.' [‎123] (794/1024)

'The Paradife of Indofbn.
this great number of Cavaliers there is not the tenth, or not the twentieth man, that
in his march eats fkfh : provided they have their Kichery, that is, their, mixture of
Rice and of other legums, upon which they pour butter when they are boy led, they
are content. We are alfo to know, that Camels endure labour, hunger and third ex-
treamly well, live upon,a little, and eat aimed any thing, and thatadbon as the Army
encampeth any where, the Camel-drivers let them go into the held to brouze, where
they eat whatever they light upon. Befides, that the Merchants that entertain Bazars
in Debit, are obliged to entertain them in the held : and that all the fmall Merchants,
that keep drop in the BazarsoiDebit^ keep them alfo in the Army, either by force, or
out of necellity > and ladly, that as to Forage, all thefe poor people go roving up and
down every where in the Village, to buy what they can get, and to gain fomething by
it j and their great and common refuge is, with a kind of Trowel torafpe or knock
down whole helds, to beat and wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. what they have there gotten, and fo to carry it to
fell to the Army, which they do fometimes very dear and fometimes very Cheap ; I
forgot to mention one thing that’s remarkable, viz. that the King enters into the
Camp, nowon one tide, then on another i and that to day he paffeth near the Tents
of certain Omrahs, and to morrow nearthofe of others. Which he doth not without
defign •> for the Omrabs, which he padeth by fo near, are obliged to meet him, and to
make, him feme fmall prefent or other j fo that fome will prefent him with twenty
Roupies of Gold, which maketh thirty Pidols i others with tidy, and fo others in
proportion, according to their generofity, and the greatnefs of their pay.
For the red, you willexcufe me, that 1 do not obferve to you the Towns and Bur
roughs that are between Debit and Labor b I have feen in a manner none of them, for
I wentalmod always crofs the fields, and in the night, bbcaufe my Agah was not placed
in themiddle of the Army, where often is the high way, but very forward in the right
Wing. We went as well as we could by Star-light crofs the fields to gain the right
Wing of the Camp, without feeking for the high way > though fometimes we found
our felves much perplexed, and in lieu of three or four Leagues, which is the ordinary
diftance of one encampment from another, we fometimes made five or fix j but
when the day comes on, we foon found our felves where we diould be.
I T is not without reafon, that this Kingdom, of which is the Capital City,
is caWcd Penjeak, or the Country of the Five IVaters, becaufe there are adually Five
is, Alexander Son of Philip \ -but as to his Horfe, they know it not. The City of
SIR,
confiderabfe Rivers coming down from thofe Mountains, within which the Kingdom
ot Kacbemire is lock’d up, and that run crofs this tradt of Land to fall into the River
Indus, difeharging themfelves together into the Ocean at Scymdi, towards the entry
of the Perfian Gulph. Whether Labor be that ancient Bucephalos, I decide not. Mean
fitne, Alexander is fufficiently known here under the name of Se\an-der Filifins, that
is, Alexander Son of Pljilip \ -but as to his Horie, they know it not. The City of
caufe