Part III. Travels into the IN DIE S. 351 ■ 
return of thofe who have dived, before they flie away to another place. 
The Hiintfmen of Jgra go five Days Journey from the Town, as far 
as a Mountain called Nerouer^ where there is a mine of excellent Iron -, Nerouer. 
but their bulinefs in going fo far is only to catch a kind of Wild Cows Merous, Wild- 
which they call Merous^ that are to be found in a Wood round this Hill, Cows, 
which is upon the Road from Surrat to Gokonda-^ and thefeCows being 
commonly very lovely^ they make great advantage of them. 
One may fee a great many Pi6tures in the Indies upon Paper and Paft- ^^'^n Pi- 
board, but generally they are dull pieces, and none are efteemed but thofe 
of Agra and Dehly : However, fince thofe of Agra are for the moft part 
indecent, and reprcfcnt Lacivious Poilures, worfc than thofe of Aretw, 
there are but few civil Europeans that will buy them. 
They have a way in this Town of working in Gold upon Agat, Chry- "^^"^ 
ftal, and other brittle matters, which our Goldfmiths and Lapidaries chryftaU 
have not. When the Indians would beautifie Veflels, Cups, or Coffers ^ 
behdes the Circles of Gold they put about them, they engrave Flowers 
and other Figures, and alfo enchafe Stones upon them. They cut 
leaves of Gold to fill up the void fpaces of the Figures, lay feveral pieces 
one upon another, and enchafe them fo artificially in the hollow places, 
with an Iron Inftrument like a Graver, that when the void fpaces are fil- 
led up, it looks like Maffie Gold. They do the fame with Stones, they 
encompafs them alfo with fuch pieces of Leaf-Gold, and prefs them in fo 
clofe that the Stones hold very well. 
1 hey make Rings about Veffels, either about the middle or brims, of 
a kind of Gold made into little round Rods, which they beat upon an An- 
vil, till they be reduced into flat thin Plates ^ then they take the meafure 
of the part of the Vefiel which they would incircle, and having moH ex- 
adly bent the Ring, they Souldcr the two ends of it together, and put ic 
upon the part of the VefTel they intend it for ^ fo that it holds very well_, 
provided one have the skill to adjuft it true to the place marked : If Han- 
dles be neceflary to the Veffels, or Locks for the Coffers of Agat or Cry- 
ftal, they Ibulder them to the Ring with the fame Art that they fouldered 
the two ends of it -, but they do it after another way than our Gold- 
fmiths do. For that end they make ufe of little red Beans which are 
black at the end, and are the fruit of a Convolvuhis^ called in Indian Gomt- 
cbi^ and in the Telenghi Language, Gourghindel. They peel off the Skin 
which is dry and hard, and taking the infide of the Bean that is yellowifli^ 
they grind it upon an Iron-Platz: with a little Water till it be dilÎTolved in- 
to a Liquid Solution-, then they pound a little bit of Borax, mix it 
with that Solution, and with this fnixture dawb the ends which they in- 
tend to foulder, and having heated them with a Coal, joyn them toge- 
ther -, fo that the two lides clofe fall: and hold extraordinarily well. 
This work is performed by poor People, and fometimes by little Boys, 
who do it very skilfully and quickly, for a matter of two Crowns for 
each tole of Gold -, and fomething is alfo given to him that beats and flat- 
tens the Rods of Gold : However none of thefe People know how to 
Enammel Gold. 
The Province of Agra hath above fourty Towns in its dépendance, and, 
as they fay, above three thoufand four hundred Villages. Fetipour is Fetipour. 
one of the Towns \ it was heretofore called Sicari^ and the Name Feti- sicari. 
pour^ which fignifies. The enjoyment of what one defires^ was given it by Ec- 
bar^ becaufe of the happy news he received there of the birth of a Son, 
when he was upon his return from a Warlike expedition. This Town is 
about fix Leagues from Agra ^ it hath been very lovelv, and that Great Mogul 
in the beginning of his Reign, having rebuilt the Walls of it, made it the 
Capital of his Empire. But the Ambition Kings have to make fmall 
things great, prompting Ecbar to build a Town where there was nothing 
but a village, or at moft, but a Bourg named Agra^ the Town of Feti- a Bcarg, 
pour wa.s not only negle6led, but hath been fince wholly abandoned-, for 
fo foon as Agra was become a Town, and that the King had given it his 
Name, calling it Ecbarabad^ a place built by Ecbar ^ he went to refidc there Edarahd 
and forfook Fetipour, ' i Jiough * 
