Book I. Travels in India. 4.-1 



In recompence whereof the Great Mogul gives them Commands in his Armie$i 

 by which they gain much more than they looie by the tribute which they 



Mir da is a great City, but ill-built. When I came thither in one of my Indian-, 



journeys, all the Inns were full of Paifengers, in regard that Cba-jebans Aunt, the 



Wife of Cba-Ejl-Kan, was going that way to marry her Daughter to Sultan 



Sttjah, the fecond Son of Cha-jehan ; I was fore'd to let up my Tent upon a Bank, 



with Trees on both fides : But I was not a little iurpriz'd two hours afterward, to 



fee fifteen or twenty Elephants loofe, that tore down the boughs as far as they 



could reach, breaking off the huge Arms of Trees, as if they had been but fmall 



faagot-iticks. This (boil was done by the order of the Begum, in revenge of the 



Affront which the Inhabitants of Mir da fyad put upon her, who had not waited 



on her, and made her a Prefent as they ought to have done. 



From Mirdu to Baronda, coftes 12. 



From Baronda to Coctcbiel 3 coftes 18 



From Coetchicl to Bandar-Sonrury, coftes 14 



From Bandar-Sonncry to Ladona, coftes 1 6 



From Ladona to Chafou, coftes 12 



From ChafoH to Nou.iU, coftes 17 



From Nouali to Hindoo, coftes 19 



From Hindoo to Ban.iana t coftes 10 



Theft two laft places are two Towns, where, as in all the Countrey round 



about, they make Indigo-Vhte, which is round j and as it is the beft of all the In- 



digo's, (b is it double the price. 



From Baniana to Vettapour, coftes *4 



Vettapour is an ancient Town where they make woollen-Hangings. 



From Fettapour to Agra, coftes ' 12 



From Surat to Agra is in all, coftes 41 £ 



If you could divide your journeys equallv into thirteen Cities a-piece, you 



might go to Smrat in thirty-three days ; but becaufe you reft, and itay at fume 



places, it is generally thirty-live or forty days journey. 



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CHAP. VI. 



The Road from Ifpahan to Agra, through CanJahar. 



Flave made an cxacl defcription of fomc part of the Road, and brought 

 the Reader as far as Cand.1h.4r; it remains that I carry him from Candabar 

 to Anra j to which there are but two ways to go, either through Caboul, or 

 through Mtultan. The latter way is the fhorrer by ten days journey. But 

 the- Caravan never goes that way. For from Candabar to Muhan you travel 

 almolt all the way "through Defarts , and fometiraes you travel three or' four 

 days without meeting any water. So that the molt ordinary and beaten 

 Road, is through Caboul. Now from Candabar to Caboul, is twenty-four days 

 journey j from Caboul to Labor, twenty-two j from Labor to Dehiy, or Ce- 

 hm.ib.it, eighteen j from Debly to Agra, fix , which with the fixty days jour- 

 ney from Ifpahan to Far at, and the twenty from Far at to Candabar, makes 

 in all from Ifpahan to Agra, an hundred and fifty days journey. But the 

 Merchants that are in hafte, take Horfes, three or four together in a company, 

 and ride the whole journey in fixty, or fixty-rive days at moft. 



Mult an is a City where there is made a vaft quantity of Linnen Cahcuts, 

 which was all tranfported to Tut a, before the Sands had ftop'd up the mouth 

 of the River , but lince that, it is carry 'd all to Agra, and from Agra to Su- 

 ral, as is the greateft part of the Merchandize which is made at Labor. Bur 

 in regard carriage is ib dear, very few Merchants traffick either to Mult an or 

 at Labor • and many of the Workmen have alfo deferted thofe places, fo that 

 the Kines Revenues are very much diminifhed in thofe Provinces. Mult an ^ 

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