66 Travels into the INDIES. Partlll.^ 
CHAR XXXVI. 
; Of the Vrovince of Labors and of the Vartias. 
The Province 
of Labors. 
The Situation 
of Labors. 
Labors, Town. 
Ravy, River; 
Pangeab, 
^celines , Ce- 
phif, Hydarpbes 
Zaradrcxs, Hip 
falis. Rivers.. 
Behat, Canab, 
Find, Ravji 
Van, Rivers. 
Piàiires at 
Labors. 
A Crucifix at 
Lxbors, 
The Pidiire of 
the B Virgin. 
Pagodî at La' 
hors. 
Inris about forty eight or fifty Leagues from Lahors to the borders ofCach- . 
L mir ^ which is to the North of it , as Dehly is to the South \ and Lahor% . 
is a hundred Leagues from Dehly ^ for they reckon Two hundred Cojfes from . 
the one Town to the other, and the CojJ'es or half Leagues are long in that 
Countrey. Multan lyes to the Weft of Labors^ and is diftant from it three^; 
fcore and odd Leagues -, and to the Eaft of it there are high Mountains, 
in many places Inhabited by Raj as ^ of whomfome are tributary to the Great 
Mogtilf and others not, becaufe having ftrong places to retreat into , they 
cannot be forced , though the Merchants fuffer much by their Robberies -y 
and when they travel in that Countrey, they are obliged to have a guard of 
Soldiers to defend the Caravanes from thefe Robbers, 
L«i5or J lies in thirty one degrees fifty minutes Latitude, near the River 
Ravjf, which falls into the Indus as the others do. The Moguls have given 
that Province the name of Pangeah^ which fignifies the five Rivers , becaùfè 
five run in the Territory of it. Thefe Rivers have received fo many par- 
ticular names from the Moderns that have fpoken of them, that at prefent 
it is hard to diftinguifh them one from another ^ nay,and moft part of thefe 
names are confounded , though Pliny diftinguilhed them by the names of 
AcelmSf Cofhis, Hjdarphex^ Zaradras and Hlfpalis. Some Moderns call them 
Bebatf Canab, Find, Ravy^ Van -, and others give them other Appellations , 
which are not the names of the Countrey , or at leaft which are not gi- 
ven them , but in fome places of it they run through* However, afl thefe 
Rivers have their Sources in the Mountains of the North, and make up the 
ludus , that for a long way, goes by the name of Sinde , into which, they 
fall -, and that's the reafon why this River is fometime called Indy^ and fom- 
times Sindy. The chief Town is not now upon the Ravy as it was for a long 
time , becaufe that River having a v£ry flat Channel , has fallen off from 
it above a quarter ©f a League. 
This hatn been a very pretty Town when the Kings kept their Courts 
in it, and did not prefer Dehly and Agra before it. It is large , . and hath 
been adorned as the others are with Mojques , publick Baths,Quervanferais, 
Squares^ Tanquies, Palaces and Gardens. The Caftle remains ftill , for it 
is ftrongly iJuilt , heretofore it had three Gates on the fide of the Town, 
and nine towards the Countrey , and the Kings Palace within it , hath not 
as yet loft all its beauty. There are a great majiy Pictures upon the Walls, 
which reprefent the Adions of the Great Moguls , their Fore-fathers that are 
pornpoully Painted there -, and on one Gate there is a Crucifix , and the Pi- 
£bure of the Virgin on another , but I believe thefe two pieces of Devotion 
Were only put there by the Hypocrifie of King Gehanguir , who pretended a 
kindnefs for the Chriftian Religion to flatter the Portuguefè. Many of the 
chief Houfes of the Town run into decay daily, and it is pity to fee in fome 
Streets (which are above a League in length) Palaces all ruinous. Ne- 
verthelefs the Town is not old , for before King Humayon , it was at bell: 
but a Bourg : That King made a City of it, built a Caftle, and kept his 
Coiirt there , and it encreafed fo in a fliort time , that with the Suburbs 
it made three Leagues in length. As^ there are a great many Gentiles in 
this Town, fo arc there many Pagods alfo ; fome of them are well adorn- 
ed 5. and all raifed feven or eight fteps from the ground. 
Lahors, 
