Book I. 



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T R A V ELS 



I N 



I N D I A. 



I The Firft Book. 



What Roads to take, in Travelling from Ifoahan 

 to Agra, from Agra to Dehly and Genana- 

 batt, where the Great Mogul Kef des at pre* 

 fent : And how to Travel a I/o to the Court of the 

 King of Golconda^ to the King of Vifapour, 

 and to many other Places in the Indies. 



chap. 1. 



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

 larly de\crib d the manner of Sailing from Ormus to Suratr. 



N this Relation of my Indian, I will obferve the lame Method as in the Reci- 

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

 which lead you from Ifpahan to Dehly and Gehanadatt,vthèrc the Great Mo- 

 gul Refides at prefent. 

 Though the Indies ftretch themlelves front Per fa for the (pace of above 400 

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

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

 Antiquity by the Name of Mount Caucafus, or Mount Taurus-, yet there are not Co 

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

 T'trky into Perfa ; by reafon 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 choole, in going from Ifpahan to Agra. The one is partly by 

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

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

 musi ar 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 muft oblerve the proper feafons, which being elaps'd, there is no more ven- 

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

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



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