'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.' [‎61] (1016/1024)

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Knavery 5 but notwithftanding all their care, there will be fome
deceit.
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Sdt-Peter,
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G Reat ftore of Salt-Peter comes from Agra, and Patna • but the refin’d
cofts three times more then that which is not. The Hollanders
have fet up a Ware-Houfe fourteen Leagues above Vatna^ and when their
Salt-Peter is refin’d , they tranfport it by water by Ogueli. A Mein of
refin’d Salt-Peter is worth feven Mamoudi’s.
. Spice.
C Ardamom, Ginger, Pepper, Nutmegs, Nutmeg-Flowers, Cloves
and Cinnamon, are all the different forts of Spices known to u$;
I put Cardamom and Ginger in the firfl: place, becaufe that Cardamom
grows in the Territories of Fifapour, and Ginger in the Dominions of
the Great Mogul. And as for other Spices, they are brought from other
Foreign parts to Surat } which is the grand Mart.
Cardamom is the moft excellent of all other Spices, but it is very
fcarce 5 and in regard there is no great ftore in the place where it grows,
it is only made ufe of in dfia , at the Tables of great Princes. Five
hundred pound of Cardamoms, are pric d from a hundred to a hundred
and ten Rials. ^ # . ‘
Ginger is brought in great quantities from Amadabat ^ where there
grows more than in any other part of Afta ; and it is hardly to be imagin d
how much there is tranfported candited into Foreign parts.
Pepper is of two forts. There is a fort which is very fmall, another
fort much bigger 5 both which forts are diftinguilh’d into ftnall and great
Pepper. The larger fort comes from the Coaft of Malavare ; and
corin and Calicut are the Cities where it is brought up. Some of this
Pepper comes from the Territories of the King of P r ifafour, being vended
at Re jap our, a little City in that Kingdom. ^ The that purchafe
it of the Malavares^do not give Money for it,but feveral forts of Commo
dities in Exchange 5 as Gotten, Opium? Vermilion, and Quickfilver5 and
this is the Pepper which is brought into Europe. As for the little Pepper
that comes from Bantam^ Afchen^ and fome other parts toward the Eatt,
there is none of it carried out of Afia^ where it is fpent in vaft quantities,
efpecially among the Mahumetans. For there are double theGrains^ot
fmall Pepper in one pound, to what there are of the great Pepper 5 befides
that the great Pepper is hotter in the mouth. c
The little Pepper that comes to Surat^ has been fold (ome years of
thirteen or fourteen Mamoudi’s the Mein • and fomuch I have feen the
Englilh give for it, to tranfport it to Ormm ^ 54//^, andtheReaSeav
As for the great Pepper, which the Hollanders fetch from the Coaft or
Malavare, five hundred pound in truck brings them in not above thirty-
eight Reals 5 but by the Commodities which they give in Barter, they
pzinCent, percent. , t.
The Nutmeg, theNutmeg-Flow’r, the Clove, and Cinnamon,
only Spices which the Hollanders have in their own hands. The three firlt
come from the Molucca Iflands y the fourth, which is Cinnamon, from
the ffland of CeyUn. s -j-* s