o Travels in India. Part II, 



In the great Villages there is generally a Mahumttmt that cqmmanjds, of wj U)m 

 you may buy Mutton, Pullers or Pidgeons. But wheie there live none bur Bar 

 mans, there is nothing but Mower, Rice, Herbs and Milk meats to be had. 



The great heats in India, enforcing the Travellers, that are not accuftomed to 

 them to travel by night, and reft in the day- time; when they eome into any 

 fortified Towns, they muft be gone before Sunset, if they intend to travel that 

 night. For night coming on, and the (.Kites being tiiut, the Commander of the 

 place" who is to anfwer tor all the Robberies that are committed within his Ju- 

 i i/aicflion, will let no perlon ltir forth, telling them that it is the King's order, to 

 which he mult be obedient. When 1 came to any of thole Towns. 1 bought my 

 Provilions, and went out again in good time, and ltaid in the Field under (erne 

 Tree, in the frefh air, till it was time to let forward. 



They mealure the diftances of places in India by G'w,und Coftts. A Gos is about 

 four of our common leagues, and a gofte one league. It is now tune to travel 

 from Sftrat fo\' Agraj and fanabat, and to ebferve what is molt remarkable upon 

 the Road. 



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C H A P. IV 



The Raid .from Sarar to Agra, through BrampOUT O&'dScrong 



I Am no lets well acquainted with ail the principal Roads thflr lead to the chicl 

 Cities of India, than thote of turkey and Ptrfa; for in fix times that 1 have 

 travell'd from Paris to Ifpahan, I have gone twice forope from ?jpah*n to Afro^ 

 and many other places of the Great Afogufs Empire. But it would be tireibmc to 

 the Reader to carry him more than once the lame way, on purpofe to make a 

 relation of every particular journey,and the accidents that accompany them : And 

 therefore it will fufficc to give an exacT deicription of the Roads, without parti- 

 cularizing the difrincl times that I went. 



There are but two Roads from Surat to y/f .?, one through Brampour and £:- 

 ronge, the other through dmadabat. The firft (hall be the Subject of this Chap- 

 ter. 



From Surat to Bamolj^ coftes 14 



Bamoly is a great Borough-Town, where you are to lord a great River ; and 

 this firlt days journey you croft a mixt Countrey, part Wood, part through Fields 

 of Wheat and Rice, 



From B.irnAy to Babar, Coites. 1$ 



Bahor is alio' a large Village upon a Lake, about a league in eompals. Upon 

 the fide whereof is to be feen a good fubftantial Fortrels i though there be no 

 ufe made of it. Three quarters of a league on this fide the Village you ford a 

 fmall River, though not without great difficulty, by reafbn of the Rocks and 

 Stones that hazard the over-turning of the Coach. This lecond days-journey 

 you travel almoft altogether through Woods. 



From Balor to Kerkoa, or as it is call'd at this day, Carvanfcrade la Begum, 

 coftes. 1 ■' \ 



T\\\sCarvanfra or Inn is very large and commodious ; being built out of Cha- 

 rity by Begnm-fabeb the Daughter of Cha-jehav. For formerly the journey from 

 Bal '"to Navapoura was too" great: And this place being upon the Frontiers of 

 thole Kaja's that fometimes will not acknowledg the Great Mogul, whole Vallate 

 they are, there was no Caravan that pad by which was not abuled ; beiides that 

 it is a wooddy-Countrey. Between Carvaafra and Navapoura you ford a Ri- 

 ver i as alio another very neer to Navapoura. 



From Kerkoa to Navapoura, coftes. 7f 



Navapoura is a great Town full of Weavers ; but Rice is the greateft Com- 

 modity of that place. There runs a River through the Countrey, which makes 

 it very fruitful, and waters the Rice, that requires moiiture. All the Rice which 

 grows \\ this Countrey has one peculiar quality, that makes it more particularly 



efteem'd. 



