'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.' [‎12] (855/1024)

A Netp and Particular Relation of the
I have told ydu shat Hens and Ducks arc infinitely nufrie-
rous in Tmquiu * I will now tell you how they prefefve the
Egg s of thefe Creatures^which they Will keep for two or three
years together without being fpoil’d. They fait them, and
to make them take fait, they fill a-Veffel full of Water, and
throw a good quantity of Salt into it. If the Egg fink to
the bottom, the Pickle is not goodrj then they throw in
more Salt, till they find that the Eggs Iwim. T he Pickle
being thus made, they take Allies , and make them up into
a Paft With this Pickle : and in this Pafl they enclofe every
Bgg by it felf, and then wrap it up in a leaf of an Herb,
riot unlike one of our Pear-tree leaves, but much larger, and
then put the Eggs into Earthen Pots clofe coter'd : after
which manner they keep their Eggs for two or three years
together.
In other parts of the Indies where there is great ftore of
Oyl, as in the Dominions of the Great Mogul, the Kingdoms
of and Arochan, they put their Eggs into great Earthen
Pots well varniftfid, and then fill the Velfel with an Oyl
Which is made of a fmall Seed like Rape-feed. Fofas for
$allad Oyl, after you are once pafifd Aleppo^ you fee no more
Olive-trees over all but only in one place of tyerfia near
Cochin, where between tke Mountains lies a little Valley
about a League long and half a League broad, full of Olive-
trees , but they make but very little Oyl, preferving the
Olives only to eat. But to return to the Eggs • they are the
chief Provifion which they eat a Ship-board. But the Eggs
which are preferv'd in Salt are preferred much before thole
that are kept in Oyl | becaufe that in tiling the firft, there is
no need of carrying Salt to Sea, or of boiling Salt with their
Rice* When they eat them , they boil them till they are
hard, and with every mouthful of Rice they eat a Pea’s
bignefs of Egg, which is as good and better then Salt with
their Rice. As to what remains, there are neither Mines of
Oold nor Silver in the Kingdom of Tunquin , neither do they
Coin any Money.
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