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In recompence whereof the Great Mogul ^wes them Commands in his Armies; 

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

 pay 



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

 journeys, all the Inns were full of PalFengers, in regard that Cba-jeban's Aunt, the 

 Wife of Ch*-Eft-Kan, was. going that way to marry her Daughter to Sultan 

 Sujah, the fécond Son of Cha-jehan ; I^was forc'd to let up my Tent upon a Bank 

 with Trees on both fides : But I was not a little furpriz 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 final 1 

 feggot-fticks. This fpoil was done by the order of the Begum, in revenge of the 

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

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



From Mir da to Baronda, coftes 12 

 From Baronda to Coetchiel, coftes 1 8 



From Coetchiel to Bandar- S onnery, coftes 1^ 

 From Bandar-S onnery to Ladona, coftes \. 16 



From Ladona to Cbafou, coftes 11 

 From Chafou to Nouait, coftes 17 

 From Nouaii to Hindoo, coftes 19 

 From Hindoo to Baniana, coftes 10 

 Thefe two laft places are two Towns, where, as in all the Countrev round 

 about, they make Indigo-Vhte, which is round 5 and as it is the beft of all the In- 

 digo's, fa is it double the price. 



From Baniana to V ittapour, coftes 1^ 

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

 From y et tap our to Agra, coftes 12, 

 ' , From Sur at to Agra is in all, coftes 41 J 



If you could divide your journeys equally into thirteen Cosies a-piece, you 

 might go to Surat in thirty-three days -, but becaufe you reft, and ftay at fome 

 places, it is generally thirty-five or forty days ;ourney. 



CHAP. VL 

 The Road from Ifpahan to Agra, through Candahar. 



I Have made an exacl delcription of fome part of the Road, and brought 

 the Reader as far as Candahar ; it remains, that I carry him from Candahar 

 to Agra ; to which there are but two ways to go, either through Caboul, or 

 through Mlukan. The latter way is the fhorter by ten days journey. But 

 the Caravan never' goes that way. For from Candahar to Multan you travel 

 almoft all the way through Defarts ; and fometimes you travel three or four 

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

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

 journey ; from Caboul to Labor, twenty-two ; from Labor to Dehly, or Ge~ 

 hanabat, eighteen ; from Dehly to Agra, fix ; which with the fixty days jour- 

 ney from Ifpahan to Farat, and the twenty from F or at to Candahar, 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-five days at moft. 



Multan is a City where there is made a vaft quantity of Linnen Calicut^ 

 which was all tranfported to Tuta, beïore the Stands had ftop'd up the mouth 

 of the River ; but fince that, it is carry 'd all to ^gra, and from Agra to Su- 

 rat, as is the greateft part of the Merchandize which is made at Labor. But 

 in regard carriage is fo dear, very few Merchants traflick either to Multan or 

 at Labor ; and many of the Workmen have alfo deferted thole places, fo that 

 the Kings Revenues are very much diminifhed in thofe Provinces. -Multan 



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