Book I. 15 



TRAVELS 



I N 



INDIA. 



The Firft; Book. 



What Roads to take, in Travelling from Ifpahatl 

 to Agra, from Agra to Dehly and Gehana- 



batt, where the Great Mogul Kefides at pre- 



fent : And how to Travel a Ifo to the Court of the 

 King of Golconda; to the King of Vifapour, 

 and to many other Vlaces in the Indies. 



chap. 1. 



The Rojd from Ifpahan to Agra through Gomron : Where is particu- 

 lar ly di\cribd the m. inner of Sailing from Ormus to Suratr. 



IN this Relation of my Indian, I will obferve the fame Method as in the Reci- 

 tal of my PerjUn Travels ; and begin with the defcription of the Roads, 

 -which lead you from Ifpahan to Dehly and Gcbanadatt, where the Great Mo- 

 gul Rcfides at prelent. 

 Though the Indies ftretch themfelves front Per fa for the (pace of above 4^0 

 Leagues together, from the Ocean to that long Chain of Mountains that runs 

 through the middle of jifi* from the Eaft to the Weft, and which was known to 

 Antiquity by the Name ot Alount Cancajus, or Mount Taurus; yet there are not ib 

 many .ways to travel out of Perfia into the Indies, as there are to travel out of 

 Turk) into Perfia j by rcafon that between Perfia and the Indies there are nothing 

 but vaft Sands and Defarts,where there is no water to be found. So that you have 

 but two Roads to choofe, in going from Ifpaban to Agra. The one is partly by 

 Land, and partly by Sea ; taking Ship at Ormus, The other altogether by Land, 

 through Candahar. The firft of thefc two Roads is amply defcrib'd, as far as Or- 

 mus, at the end of my firft Book of my Perfian Travels. So that I am now only 

 to [peak of the manner of Sailing from Ormus to Suratt. 



There is no Sailing at all times upon the Indian as upon the European Seas: 

 You mnft observe the proper feafons, which being elaps'd, there is no more ven- 

 turing. The Months of November, December, January, February and March 9 are 

 the only Months in the year to Embark from Ormus to Suratt ■ and from Suratt 



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