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THE FIFTH BOOK 

 OF THE 



PERSIAN TRAVELS 



O F 



Monsieur TAFERNIER: 



BEING 



A Politick and Hiflorical Defcription of PERSIA: 



With the 



R O 



FROM 



ISPAHAN to OR MUS. 



CHAP. I 



The Genealogy of the Kings of Pcrfia, of the Lift Race. 



AFtèr that Tamerlane had extended his Conquefts into A fia, and de- 

 feated the Army of Bajatet, whom he took Prifoner, together with 

 his Wife, he return'd into Perjta, where at that time liv'd a Cbei^ 

 whole name was Aidar, a perfon in high reputation for his Holi- 

 nefs. He was a perfon of great wit, and the firft in the dignities of the Law s 

 which gain'd him great authority and belief among the people. He gave great 

 honour to Tamerlane, and fhew'd Eminent kindnefles to all the Officers of his Ar- 

 my 5 in recompence whereof, Tamerlane, who was a gejierous Prince, and full 

 of gratitude , made a Prefent to the Cheik^ of a great number of Captives,, 

 which he brought along with him out of Turky. The Cbeik planted one part 

 of thefè Slaves about Ardevih, and leated the other near his own refidence. 

 Now in regard he alfum'd to himfelf to be defcended in a direct line from Maho- 

 met, he cover'd his head after another manner then all the reft of the Persians, 

 wearing a kind of flat Bonnet, growing broader and broader to the top, and fo 

 pleighted, as to make twelve Pleighrs of a RufF, in honour of the twelve Pro- 

 phets. In the middle, a kind of a Pyramid about a fingers length feem'd to rife 

 out of the Bonnet, but was indeed fow'd to it. Such a Bonnet as this the Cheil^ 

 appointed all the Slaves to wear that Tamerlane had giv'n him, and this is that 

 which at this day diftinguifhes their SuccelTors from the other Perfians, And it 

 is the cuftom, where Kans or Governours of Provinces refide, that all the Sophies 

 both in the City and the neighbouring parts, meet in the Piazza every Friday 

 in the afternoon , where they pray to God for the health of the King and 

 the Kan, and for the profperity of the Kingdom ; after which the Kan fends 



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