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Book I. Travels in India. .51 



he was very much in the Kings favour, who had confer'd upon him many fair 

 Commands, though he could never either by threats or promifes win him to 



turn Mahometan. 



CHAP. VIII. 



The Road from Agra to Patna, and Daca, Cities in the Tr wince of 

 Bengala, and of the Quarrel which the Author had with Cha-Eft- 

 Kan, the Kings Vnckk. 



I Departed from Agfa toward Bengala the 2.5th of November 1665, and that 

 day I reach'd no farther than a very bad Inn, diftant from Agra, coftes 3 



The 2.6th I came to Beruz.abad, coftes 9 



This is a little City where,at my return.,1 received eight thoufand Roupies,being 

 the remainder of the Money which Giafcr-Kan ow'd me for Wares that he had 

 bought at fanabat. 

 The 2.7th to Serael MorltcUs, coftes 9 



The 2$th to Serai I Eftanja, coftes 14 



The 2.9th to Serail Haii-mal, coftes 12 



The 3 oth. to Serail Sekandera^ coftes 1 3 



The I ft of December to Sanqual, coftes iXf 



1 met that day 1 io\Vaggons,every Waggon drawn by fixOxen,& in every Waggon 

 coooo Roupies. This is the Revenue of the Provinceof BcngaUjNixh all charges de- 

 fraid, and the Governor's Purfe well-fill'd, comes to j yooooo Roupies. A league 

 beyond Sanqual, you muft pafs a River call'd Saingour, which runs into Gemine, not 

 above half a league diftant from it. You pals over this River of Saingour upon 

 a Stone-bridg, and when you come from toward Bengala to go to Seronge or Su- 

 rat, if you have a mind to fhorten your journey ten days, you muft leave Agra- 

 Road, and come to this Bridg, and €0 Ferry over Gemine in a Boat. But generally 

 Arra-Ro*& is taken, becaufe the other way you muft travel five- or fix days to- 

 gether upon the ftones ; and alfo for that you are to pals through 'he Territories 

 of certain Raja's, where you are in danger of being robb'd. 



The fe'eond day I came to an Inn call'd Cherourabad, coftes 12, 



When you are got about half the way, you pais through Gianabad, a little 

 City near to which, about a quarter of a League on this fide, croffing a Field 

 of Millet I law a Rhinoceros feeding upon Millet-Canes, which a little Boy 

 of nine or ten years old gave him to eat. When I came near the Boy, he 

 gave me fome Millet to give the Rhinoceros ; who immediately came to me, open- 

 ing his chops three or four times 5 I put the Millet into his mouth, and when he 

 had fwallow'd it, he ftill open'd his mouth for more. 

 The id I came to Serrail Chajeada, coftes *o 



The qth to i> err ail Atakan, coftes * 5 



The tth to Aurcng-Abad, coftes 9 



Formerly this Village had another name ; but being the place where Aursng- 

 zeb gave Battel to his Brother Sultan Sujah, who was Governor of all the Pro- 

 vince of Bengala ; Aureng-zeb, in Memory of the Viftory he had won gave it 

 his own name, and built there a very fair Houfe, with a Garden, and a little 



Mo\quec. 

 The 6th to Alinchan, coftes . 9 



Two leagues on this fide Alinchan, you meet the River Ganges. Monjieur tier- 

 nier the King's Phyfitian, and another perfon whofe name was Racheoot, with 

 whom I travell'd, were amaz'd to fee, that a River that had -made fuch a nolle 

 in the World, was no broader than the River Seine before the Lovre , be- 

 lieving before, that it had been as wide as the Danaw above Belgrade There is 

 alfo fo little water in it from March to fune or July, when the rains fall, that it 

 will not bear a (mail Boat. When we came to Ganges, we drank every one of>£. 



