'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.' [‎124] (795/1024)

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A Voyage to Kachemire,
caufe that the River hadileft it. It is very high, and magnificent j yetthofeof Aar a
and Vehli do much furpafs it. It is now above two months that we are here, expect
ing the melting of the Snow cxf the mountains of Kacbemire, for a more convenient
paffage into that Kingdom. But at length we are to depart tomorrow. The King
hath been gone thefe two dayes. I have got a little Kacbemirian Tent, which I bought
yefterday. I was advifed to do like others, and to leave here my ordinary Tent which
is big and heavy enough, becaufe, they fay, that between the mountains of Kacbemire
whither we are now marching, it will be difficult to find room enough, and that the
Camels not having place enough to pafs, we (hall be obliged to get our Baggage carried
by Porters, and that fo my large Tent would coft me much to carry* Adieu.
THE FOURTH LETTER.
I Believed, that after we had overcome the heats of Mao^ near Babel-maudel I
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_ .could defie thofe of the reft of the Earth, but fince thefe four dayes that the Army
left Labor, 1 find I come very fhort of my reckoning, and I have experimented to the
hazan/lof my life, that it is not without reafon, that the Indians themfclves did appre
hend the eleven or twelve dayes march of the Army, horn Labor to Bamber, the entry
of tl?e mountains of Kacbemire. I proteft unto you, without any exaggaration that
the heats have been fo exceilive, that fometimes they have reduced me to extremity,
infomuch that I knew not in the morning whether I fhould live till night. The caufe*
of this extraordinary heat is, that the high mountains of Kacbemire being on the North
of our road, keep from us all the cool wind that might come and refrelh us from that
Quarter, and do refied the fun-beams upon us, and leave the field burnt up and choa-
king. But to what purpofe, to play the Philofopher, and to feek reafons for that,
which perhaps will kill me to morrow. x
THE FIFTH LETTER.
SIR,
T Paired yefierday one of the greateff Rivers of the Indies, called the TcbeHau. The
I.excellency of its water, oi which the great Omrahs make provision in lieu of that of
anges . ( whereof they have drunk hitherto ) keeps me from believing this to be feme
uver to pafs to Hell, rather than to Kacbemire, where they would make us believe we
lhall find Snow and Ice : For 1 find it grow worfeand worfe every day, and that the
more we advance, the more heat we feel. J Tis true that 1 pafs’d the Bridge at Noon-
^ay , but l almoff knew not, which was beff, to march in the field, or to keep ones
e i (tuff d up under a Tent: At leaft, I have fuccecded in my defign, which was, to
pais the Bridge with eafe, whilff all men did repofe themfplves, expecting to leave the
Camp towards evening when the Heat is not fo violent i whereas ifl had ffaid as the
Jdl: did, fotne mifehief perhaps might have befallen me. For it hath been, I hear,
the molt terrible confufion, and the greateft diforder that ever was in any the like for
mer paffage from Dehli\ the entring upon the firft Boat, and the going olf from the
aft, having been made very difficult, becaufe it was meer moving fand, which as
people marched upon it, and ftirr’d it, did llide away into the water, and left a pit»
infomuch that a great number of Camels, Oxen and Horfes were in the crowd over
thrown and trampled under foot, and ffore of blows diffributed belides : There are
or marily, upon fuch occafions, fome Officers and Cavaliers of t\\£ Ontrabs, who to
make way for their Maffers and their Baggage, are not fparing of them. My
u 3t i j oneo ^ h' s Caimels with the Iron Oven it carried » which maketh me appre*
nend, I iha]l be reduced to the bread of Fareml.
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