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Part III Travels into thel'N'Dl'ES. ^9 
Gate giiaf ded by Indians fitting on feats Scone, with their Swords by them. 
They let no Stranger in, if he have not ^ permiffioa from the Governour, 
or be not acquainted with fome Officer bf the Kings. Be/ides the Kings 
Paikce there is no good building in this Caftle, imlefs it be fome Officers ' 
lodgings-, but the Palace is great, and well ^htnated for good Air, and a 
lovely Profpeft:, and a F/^«2///> Chirurgcon who is in the Kings fervice, told 
me, that the Chamber where he waited on the King, hath a Kiock, from 
whence one may difcover not only all the Caftle and Countrey about, but 
alfo all Bagnagar, and that one muft pais through rwelve Gates before one 
comes to the appartment of the Prince. Moft part of the Officers lodge in 
the Caftle, which hath feveral good Bazaars, where all things neceffary, 
(efjpecialiy for life) may be had, and all the Omras^ and other great Lords 
have Houfcs there, belidesthofe they have at Bagnagar. 
The King will have the good Workmen to live there, and therefore ap-^ 
points them lodgings, for which they pay nothing: He makes even Jewellers 
lodge in his Palace, and to thefe only hetrufts Stones of confequence, ftridt- 
ly charging them, not to tell any what work they are about, leaft if Auran- 
fhould come to know that his workmen are employed about Stones of 
great value, he might demand them of him : The Workmen of the Ca- 
Itiè are taken up about the Kings common Stones, of which he hath fo 
many that thefe Men can hardly work for any body elfe. .pj^^ cutting of 
They cut Saphirs with a Bow of Wire -, whil'ft one Workman handles Saphirs. ' ° 
the Bow, another poures continually upon the Stone a very liquid folution 
of the Power of white Emrod made in Water; and fo they eafily compafs White Emrod. 
their Work. That white Emrod h found in Stones, in a particular place of 
the Kingdom, and is called Coriud in the Telenghy Language : It is fold for a 
Crown or two Roupies the pound, and when they intend to ufe it, they 
beat it into a Powder. To take a fpot 
When they would cut a Diamond to takeout fome grain of Sand, or oucofaDia- 
or other imperfection they find in it, they faw it a little in the place where 
it i-s to be cut, and then laying it upon a hole that is in a piece of wcx)d, they 
put a liiilz wedge of Iron upon the place that is faweci, and ftriking it as 
gently as may be, it cuts the Diamond through. sex^oiirs 
The King hath ftore of excellent Bezoars : The Mountains where the 
Goats feed that produce them^ are to the North-Eaft of the Caftle, feven 
or eight days Journey from Bagnagar they are commonly fold for forty 
Crowns the pound v/eight. The long are the beft : They find of them in 
fome Cows, which are much bigger than thofe of Goats, but of far lefs 
value, and thofe which of all others are moft efteemed, are got out of a 
kind of Apes that are fomewhat rare, and thefe Bez^oars are fmall and long. 
The Sepulchres of the King who built Gokonda, and of the five Princes TheSepnlchrcj 
who have Reigned after him, are about two Mufquet-fliot from the Caftle. of the Kings 
They take up a great deal of Ground, becaufe every one of them is in a and Princes of 
large Garden ; the way to go thither is out at the Weft Gate, and by it not '^'^'o"^"' 
only the Bodies of Kings and Princes, but of all that die in the Caftle are 
carried out -, and no intereft can prevail to have them conveyed out by 
any other Gate. The Tombs of the fix Kings are accompanied with thofe 
of their Relations, their Wives, and chief Eunuchs. Every one of them 
is in the middle of a Garden -, and to go fee them, one muft afcend by 
five or fix fteps to a walk built of thofe Stones, which refemble the Thebav. 
The Chappel which contains the Tornb is furrounded by a Gallery with 
open Arches: Itisfquare, and raifed fix or feven Fathom high -, it is beau- 
tified with many Ornaments of Archite6ture, and covered v/ith a Dome, 
that at each of the four corners has a Turret -, few people are fuffercd to 
go in, becaufe thefe places are accounted Sacred. There are Santa's who 
keep the entry ,and I could not have got in, if I had not told them that I was 
a Stranger. The floor is covered with a Carpet, and on the Tomb there 
is a Satten Pall with white Flowers, that trails upon the Ground. There 
is a Cloath of State of the fame Stuff a Fathom high, and all is lighted 
with many Lamps. The Tombs of the Sons and Daughters of the King 
are on the one fide, and on the other all that Kings Books, on folding feats, 
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