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numerous^ becaufe the great Men of the Empire are almoft all there, 
who have vaft rctimies, becaufe their Servants coft^hem but little in Diet ^^V'^"" ^.'«"^ 
and Cloaths-, that that Court is attended b^ above thirty five thqpfand ^^^^^S*" 
Horfe, and ten or twelve thoufand Foot, which may be called an Army -, An Army 'that 
and that every Souldier hath his Wife, Children and Servants, who for the follows the 
moft part are married alfo, and have a great many Children as well as Court, 
their Mafters. If to thefe we add all the drudges and rafcally People which 
Courts and Armies commonly draw after them, and then the great num- 
ber of Merchants and other Trading People, who are obliged to ftick to 
them, becaufe in that Countrey there is no Trade nor Money to be got 
but at Court. When I fay, we confider Dehly void of all thofe I have 
mentioned, and of many more ftill, it will eafily be believed, that that 
Town is no great matter when the King is not there -, and if there have 
been four hundred thoufand Men in it when he was there, there hardly 
remains the fixth part in his abfence. Let us now fee what Arms the Mo- 
guls ufe. 
G H A P, XXIIÏ. 
Of the Arms of the MogulV. 
THeir Swords are four Fingers broad, very thick, and by confequence MoguTs Arms, 
heavy -, they are ctooked a little, and cut only on the convexfide. The form of 
The Guard is very plain -, commonly no more but a handle of Iron, the Mogul's 
with a crofs Bar of the fame underneath the Pummel which is alfo of I- swords, 
ron, is neither Round nor Oval, but is flat above and below like a Whir- 
ligigg, that the Sword may not flip out of their Hands when they fight. 
The Swords made by the Indians are very brittle -, but the Englifli fiirnifli 
them \vith good ones brought from England. The Mogul's ufe Wafte-belts 
for their Swords-, they are two Fingers broad, and have two Hangers in- 
to which the Sword is put, fo that the Point is always upwards -, and all 
the ordinary fort of People in the Indies carry them commonly in their 
Hand, or upon their Shoulder like a Musket. 
It is their cuftom alfo to carry a Dagger by their fides, the Blade being "^^^ Moguls 
near a Foot long, and above four Fingers broad at the Handle. They ^^^ger. 
have an odd kind of Guard, and I don't remember that I have ever fecn 
any thing in France relating to Arms that looks liker it than the handle 
of fome Moulds for calling of Bullets, or Small-lhot ; it is made of two 
fquare Bars of Iron one Finger broad, and about a Foot long, which are 
paralell, and four Inches diftant one trom another -, growing round they 
joyn together at the upper part of the Blade, and have crofs Bars of two 
little Iron-Rods two Inches diftant from one another. 
The Indians never want one of thefe Daggers by their fide, betwixt the 
Girdle and Caba -, they carry it always bending a little fideways, fo that the 
end of the Guard comes pretty high, and the Point pretty low upon their 
Stomach. The Officers of War have alfo Daggers with an Iron-Guard, 
but it is damasked and guilt ; and Perfons of great quality have of them 
after the Perfian fafliion, which are lefs and richer. 
Their other offcn/ive Arms are the Bow and Arrow, the javelin or Za- 
gaje^ and fometimcs the Piftol: The Foot carry a Musket, or a Pike 
twelve Foot long. 
They have Cannon alfo in their Towns, but fince they melt the Metal "^he Moguit 
in diverfe Furnaces, fo that fome of it muft needs be better melted than ^^^""'^hf 
others when they mingle all together, their Cannon commonly is good 
for nothing. 
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