Book ! Travels in I 



NDIA. 



The Stone is of a grey colour, and fo hard that I could not fcrape it with my 

 Knife. As it is Pyramidical, there is a great Bowl at the top, which is en- 

 compafs'd at the upper end with huge Grains of Wheat. All the fronts of 

 the Tomb are full of figures of Animals cut in the Stone j and it has been 

 higher above ground than now it feems to be, for feveral old men, that look'd 

 to Ibme of the Sepulchers, aflur'd me, that within thefè fifty years it had funk 

 above thirty foot into the Earth. They tell you moreover, that it is the Se- 

 pulcher of one of the Kings of Boatan, who was interr'd here after he had left 

 his own Countrey to conquer this Kingdom, out of which he was driven by 

 the Socceflbrs of Tamerlane The Kingdom of Boutan is the place from whence 

 they fetch Musk, and I will give you a defcription of it in my third Book. 



I ftay'd at Banarou the ixth and l$fki and during thofe two days it rain'd 

 continually, but not fo as to ftop my journey ; fo that the evening of the thir- 

 teenth day I crofs'd the Ganges, with the Governours Pafs-port. Before you 

 go into the Boat, they learch the Travellers baggage -, wearing Apparel how- 

 ever pays nothing of Cuftom, but only Merchandile. 



The i$th, I went to Baterpour, coftes z 

 The ïàth, to Satraguy-fera, coftes -8 

 The iftby.XQ Afomarbj-fera, coftes , 9 



The lame day in the morning, after I had traveî'd two Leagues, I crofs'd a 

 River call'd Carnafarfou j and three Leagues from thence I crofs'd another, 

 which they call Saode-fou ; both which I foarded. 



The 16th, to Gonrmabad, coftes 8 

 This is a Town upon a River call'd Goudera-fou, which is crofs'd over a Stone- 

 Bridg. 



The ijth, to Safer on, coftes 4 

 Saferon is a City at the foot of certain Mountains, near to which there is 

 a great Lake. In the middle whereof there is a fmall Wand, with a fair Mofejuee 

 built upon it } wherein is to be leen, the Sepulcher of a Nahab or Favourite, 

 call'd Selim-Kan ; who built it when he was Governour of the Province. There 

 is a fair Bridg to crois over into the Ifland, pav'd and lin'd with large free 

 Stone. Upon one fide of the Lake is a great Garden, in the middle whereof 

 is another fair Sepulcher of the Son of the fame Nabab, Selim-Kan 3 who fuc- 

 ceeded his Father in the Government of the Province. If you would go to 

 the Mine of Soulmelpour, whereof I lhall fpeak in the laft Book of thefe Re- 

 lations, you muft leave the great Road to Patna, and bend to the South through 

 Exberbourgh, and the famous Fortrefs of Rhody, of which I lhall treat in the 

 fame place. 



The i%th, I ferry 'd in a Boat over the River Sonfou, which defcends from 

 the Southern Mountains -, after you have crofs'd it, the Merchandile pays a cer- 

 tain Toll. 



The fame day I travel'd on to Daeud-Nagar-fera , where there is a fair 

 Tomb, coftes 9 

 The 19th, to Haha-fera, coftes 10 

 The 7.0th, to Aga-fera, coftes 9 

 In the morning I met a hundred and thirty Elephants, great and fraall, which 

 they were leading to Dehli to the great Mogul. 

 The one and twentienth, to Patna, coftes 10 

 Patna is one of the greateft Cities of India, upon the Bank of Ganges, to- 

 ward the Weft j not being lefs than two Leagues in length. But the Houles 

 are no fairer than in the greateft part of the other Cities of India -, being 

 cover'd with Bambvuck^, or Straw. The Holland Company have a Houle there, 

 by reafon of their Trade in Saltpeter, which they refine at a great Town call'd 

 Chmpar, which is alio Icituated upon Ganges, ten Leagues above Patna. 



Coming to Patna, we met the Hollanders, in the Street returning from Chou- 

 par, who ftop'd our Coaches to falute us. We did not part, till we had emptied 

 two Bottles of Schiras Wine in the open Street ; which is not taken notice of 

 in that Country, where people meet with an entire freedom without any Cere- 

 mony. 



I ftay'd eight days at Patna, during which time there fell out an accident, 



which 



