Travels in India. 



Book I. 



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. vin. 



The Road from Agra to. Patna, and Daca, Cities in the Trovince of 

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

 Kan, the Kings Vnckle. 



1 Departed from Agra toward Bengala the 2$tb of November 1665, and that 

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

 The 26th I came to Beru&abad, coftes 9 

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

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



bought at fanabati 



The 27th to Serael Mor tides, coftes 9 



The 2%th to Serait Efianja, coftes . 14 



The 2.9th to Serait Haii-mal, coftes iz 



The 3 oth. to Serait Sekandera } coftes , 13 



The 17? of December to Sanqual, coftes ... 14 



I met that day 1 ioWaggons,every Waggon drawn by fixOxen,& in evervWaggon 

 j'oooo Roupies. This is the Revenue of the Provinceof Bengala,yvith all charges de- 

 fraid, and the Governor's Purfe well-fiU'd, comes to j y 00000 Roupies. A league 

 beyond Sanqual, you muft pafs a River calPd Saingom, which runs into Gemme, not 

 above ha'f a league diftant from it. You pafs over this River of Saingour upon 

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

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

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

 Agra-Road is taken* becaufe the other way you muft travel five or fix days to* 

 gether upon the ftc nes ; and alfo for that you are to pafs through the Territories 

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



The fécond day I came to an Inn call'd Cherourabad, coftes ,. . v - . 12, 



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

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

 of Millet, I faw 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 fbrne Millet to give the Rhinoceros j who immediately came to me, open- 

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



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



The 3^ I came to Serrait Chajeada, coftes 10 



The qth to Serrait Atakanj coftes 1 3 



The ph to Aureng-Abad, coftés' 9 



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

 %.eb gave Battel to his Brother Sultan Snjah, who was Governor of all the Pro- 

 vince of Bengala ; Aureng-z,eb, in Memory of the Vi&ory he had won, gave it 

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



Mojqjiee. 



The 6th to Alinchan, coftes 9 

 Two leagues on this fide Alinchan, you meet the River Ganges. Monfieur Ber-^ 

 nier the King's Phyfitian, and another perfon whofè name was Rachepot, with 

 whom I travell'd, were amaz'd to fee, that a River that had Jrnade fuch a noife 

 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 June or fut/, when the rains fall, that it 

 will not bear a fmall Boat. When we came to Ganges, we drank every one of us a 



* H z Giafs; 



