48 Travels into I N D I E S. Part III. 
Play at Dice. The Gentiles being great lovers of Play at Dice -, there js much Gaming 
during the five Feftival days. They are fo eager at it in Dehly and Benara \ 
that there is a vaft deal of Money loit there^ and many People ruined. And 
I was told a Story of a Banian of Dehly , who played fo deep at the laft Fe- 
ftival, that he loft all his Money, Goods, Houfe, Wife and Children. At 
length, he that won them, taking pitv ofhim,gave him back his Wife and 
Children s but no more of all his Eftate , than to the value of an hundred 
Crowns. 
To conclude. The Province of Dehly ^ hath no great extent to the South- 
Eaft, which is the fide towards Agra -, but is larger on the other fides, efpe- 
The Ground of dally Eaftwards , where it hath a great many Towns : The Ground about 
Dehly, excellent , where it is not negledled , but in many parts it is. 
The ground about the Capital City is very fertile -, Wheat and Rice 
grow plentifully there. They have excellent Sugar alfo , and good Indi- 
chaUmar, one go,efpecially towards Chalimar^which is one of the Kings Countrey-houfes 
of the Kings about two llcagues from Dehly ^ upon the way to Labors. All forts of Trees^ 
Houfes^ and Fruit grow there alfo ^ but amongft others, the Ananas are exceeding 
good. I mall fpeak of them in the Defcription of the Kingdom of Ben- 
gala. 
The Yearly It is fpecified in my Mémoire, That this Province pays the Great Mogul 
ûS/""^ °^ yearly, between thirty feven and thirty eight Millions. 
CHAP, xxvir. 
Of the Province and Town of Azmer. 
The Road 'Tp H E Province of Ax,mer , lies to the North-Eaft of Dehly -, the Coun- 
from j4ffa to J. trey of Sinde bounds it to the Weft; It hath Agra to the Eaft , Mult an 
Axmer. g^^J Vengeab to the North , and Guzerat to the South. This f*ro vince of 
It is Six Az,Mer^ hath been divided into three Provinces of Gf^/wfre and 5(7- 
Leagues from ^gt -, and tlie Capital City at prefent, is Az^mer^ which is diftant from Agra^ 
Agraxo Feti' about fixty twoLcagues. 
j)OKr. 6 Leag. ■' " 
to Bramabad. 7 Leag. to Hmdouen. 7 Leag. to Mogul- fer ai. 6 Leag. toLaJcot. 7 Leag. toChafol. 4 Leag. to Pipola 
7 he3g. to Mojk-baa. s hea.g.to Bexder-Sandren. 6 Lezg. to Mandi/, 1 Leag, to y^xwjfr. 
The Situation This Towu li'cs in twenty five Degrees and a half. North Latitude, at the 
of 4tzmer. foot of a vcry high,and almoft inaccelfible Mountain : There is on the top of 
it, an extraordinary ftrong Caftle -, to mount to which, onemuftgo turn- 
ing and winding for above a League -, and this Fort gives a great deal of re- 
putation to the Province. The Town hath Stone-Walls , and a good 
Ditch I, without the Walls of it, there are feveral Ruins of Fair Buildings , 
which ftiew great antiquity. King Echar was Mafter of this Province , be- 
fore he built Agra : And before it tell into his hands, it belonged to a famous 
RajaRamgend. Raja^ or Rafpoute^ called Ramgend ^ who came to Fetifour , and refigned it 
to him -, and at the fame time, did him Hommage for it. 
This Raja vf2LS Mahometan as his Predeceflbrs nad been ^ and befides a 
creat many ancient marks of MahorMtanifm , that were in that Country in 
coge/t Mondy. his Time -, thç.Ï2Lmo\xsCogea Mondj^ who was in reputation of Sanârity a- 
mongft the Mahometans^ was reverenced at Azmer j and from all Parts , 
they came in Pilgrimage to his Tombe : It is a pretty fair Building, having 
three Courts paved with Marble ^ whereof the firft is extreamly large, and 
The Sepulchre hath.on onc fide, feveral Sepulchres of falfe Saints -, and on the other, a Re- 
of cogea fervatory of Water, with a neat Wall about it. The fécond Court is more 
Mandf,, beautified, and hath many Lamps in it. The third is the lovclieft ofthc 
three ; and there tke Tomb of Cogea Mondy is to be feen in a Chappel , 
whole 
