'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.' [‎125] (796/1024)

1 he Paradife of Indoftan.
~ _ T ST S IXTH LETTER.
SIR,
I T is too much curiofity, ’tis folly, or at leaft temerity in an European to expofe him-
felf to fuch heats and dangerous marches i It is putting ones felf into manifeft peril
of life. Yet notwithftanding, misfoiftyne is good for fomething. Whilft vve flayed
at Labor* I was feized on by a Flux* and gripings, which did very much incommode
me i caufed by my conflant lying upon a Jerrajfe, and taking the cool of the night, as
we ufe to do at Dehli without danger. But fince we have been marching thefe eight or
nine dayes, the fweat hath diffipated all thofe humors. My body is become a right
Sieve, very dr'y^ and I have no fooner taken into my flomach a pint of water ( for lefs
will not ferve our turn ) but I fee it at the fame time iflue out of my limbs like a dew
to the very ends of my fingers. I believe I have this day drank above ten pints. And
this is fome comfort, that one may drink of it as much as one lifts without danger*
provided it be good water.
The SEVEN T H L E T T E R, to the fan^T~
Written from the Camp of the Army, Marching from Labor to Kacliemire^
the tenth of March m the morning,
sir, ' - ' / k
T he Sun is but juft now rifing,yet he is intolerable y there is not a Cloud in the Sky,
not a breath of Wind *> my horfes are fpent, they have not feen a green Herb fince
we came out of Labor, my Indians for all tl\eir black, dry, and hard Skin, fink under
it. My face, hands and feet are peeled off, ai^d my body is covered all over with pim-
pies, that prick me as fo many needles. Yefterday one of our poor Cavaliers, that
had no Tent, was found dead at the foot of a fmall Tree, he had feized on. I doubt ?
whether I (hall outlive this days journey j all my hope is in a little dry curdled Milk,
which I am going to dilute with Water and Sugar, and fome Limons, I have left, to
make Limonade. Fareweh the Ink dryeth at the end of my Pen, and the Pen falls out
of my hand. Farewell.
The EIGHTH LETTER, totheTame.
Written from Bember, the Entry of the Mountains of Kachemire, after
having two days encamped there. What B ember is j the change of carriages
for the Mountains ; the incredible number of Porters, and the order offer-
ved in the Army,
SIKW ' _ ; -
W E are kf length arriv'd at Bemher, the foot of a ftcep, black, and burn’d Moun
tain, and we are encamped in the channel of a large Torrent dried up, full of
fand and ftones burning hot j It is like an hot Oven : And if it were not for the (bow
er of Rain, we had this morning, and for the curled Milk, the Limons, and the Fowl
brought to us from the mountains, I know not what would have become of me, and
you would perhaps never have feen this Letter. But, God be thanked, I feel the Air
a little cooler * my Stomach, Strength and Tongue are returned. So then take this ac
count of our new kind of march and trouble.
Yefter-night the King firft of all, together with Kauchenara- Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. * and the other
Women of the Seragliof the Raja King Ragnat that performs the Office of the Vizir, and
Rafel-kan the High Steward, went away from this burning place, and laft night the great
Hunting-mafler departed with fbme of the greateft and moft neceflary Officers of the
Ptoyal Family, and many confiderable Women. This night ’tis our turn *, my Navab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Danech-mend-ban will go away, and Mahmet-Emir-k^an^ the Son of that famous Emir-
Rml^ of whom I have fpoken fo much in another place, will be of our Company > and
fo will Diami-kpni our good friend, with his two Sons, and many other Omrahs^ Ra-
fby and Manfcb-dars : And after us, all the other Lords, that are bound for Kacbemire.
^ill be gone all in their turns, to avoid in thefe difficult and narrow ways of the moun-
tsiiis, the trouble and confufion, during thefe five days of marching between this place
Kachemire. All the reft of the Court, as Fedaykan,lhe great Mafter of the Artillery,
S v thre e