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are drawn Waggons, Coaches and Chariots, allowing more or fewer, 
according as the load is heavier or lighter. 
The Oxen are Yoaked by a long Y oak at the end of the Pole, laid upon 
their Necks -, and the Coach-man holdeth in his hand the Rope to which 
the ftrings that are put through the Noftrils fire faftened. Thefe Oxen are 
of different hzes, there are great,fmall, and of a middle fize, but general- 
ly all very hardy, fo that fome of them will Travel fifteen Leagues a day. 
There is one kind of them, almoft fix Foot high, but they are rare-, and 
on the contrary another, which they call Dwarfs, becaufe they are not 
three Foot high -, thefe have a bunch on their Back as the reft have, go very 
faft, and ferve to draw fmall Waggons. 
They have white Oxen there, which are extraordinary dear, and I faw 
two of them which the Dutch had, that coft them two hundred Crowns 
The Oxen ferve 
to draw Coach- 
es, as well as 
Carts and 
Waggons. 
White Oxen 
arc very dear. 
They have 
great care of 
the Oxen. 
The food of 
the Oxen. 
Kicherj, 
The Saltpetre 
of Avmer, 
The way of 
maliing Salt- 
petre, 
a piece-, they were really, lovely, flrongand good, and their Chariot that 
was drawn by them, maae a great fhew. When People of quality have 
lovely Oxen, they keep them with a great deal of care -, they deck the ends 
of their Horns with fheaths of Copper -, they ufe them to Cloaths as Horfes 
are, and they are daily curried and well fed. Their ordinary Provender 
is Straw and Millet, but in the Evening they make each Ox fwallow down 
five or fix large Balls of a Pafte made of Flower,Jagre and Butter kned to- 
gether. They give them fometimes in the Country, Kkhery^ which is the 
ordinary Food, of the Poor -, and it is called Kkhery, becaufe it is made of 
a Grain of the fame name, boiled with Rice, Water and Salt: Some give 
them dryed Peafe, bruifed and fteeped in Water. 
After all, no part of this Province is fertile, but the Countries about 
Az,mer^ and Soret^ for the Countries of Gejfelmere, and Bando, are Barren. 
The chief Trade of Azmer is in Saltpetre,and there are great quantities of it 
niade there, by reafon of the black fat Earth that is about it, which is the 
properefl: of all other Soils to afford Saltpetre. The Indians fill a great hole 
with that Earth, and pound it in Water with great pounders of very hard 
Timber, when they have reduced it into a Liquid mafh, they let it refl:, 
to the end the Water may imbibe all the Saltpetre out of the Earth : This 
mixture having continued fo for fome time, they draw off what is clear, 
and put it into great Pots, wherein they let it boil , and continually fcum 
it; when it is well boiled, they again drain what is clear out of thefe Pots, 
and thaf being congealed and dryed in the Sun, where they let it ftand for 
a certain time, it is in its perfedion -, and then they carry it to the Sea-port 
Towns, and efpecially to Surrat^ where the Europeans and others buy it to 
Ballaft their Ships with, and fell elfewherc. 
This Province of Azsmer^ pays commonly to the Great Moguls thirty two 
or thirty three Millions, notwithftanding the barren places that are in it. 
CHAP. XXX. 
Of the ovine e ofSïnàc tfrSindy. 
The Province 
oiSinde or 
Sindy. 
The River 
Sinde. 
Ghigttis-Can, 
Gelaleddin, 
Carezmian 
Princes. 
SInâe or Sindy^ which fome call Tatta, is bounded with the province of 
Azmer to the Eaft -, and the Mountains which border it on that fide, be- 
long to the one or other Country. It hath Multan to the North , to the 
South, a Defart and the Indian Sea -, and to the Weft, Macran and Segeftan. 
It reaches from South to North, on both fides the River Indus, and that 
River is by the Orientals called alfo Sindy or Sinde. On the banks of it was 
fought that famous Battel betwixt Ginguis-Lan, firft Emperour of the Tartars 
or Ancient Moguls^ and the Sultan Gelakddm, which decided the deftiny of 
the Empire in favour of the former, againfl the Carez,miav Princes, who 
4 had 
