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A63439	The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years : giving an account of the present state of those countries, viz. of the religion, government, customs, and commerce of every country, and the figures, weight, and value of the money currant all over Asia : to which is added A new description of the Seraglio / made English by J.P. ; added likewise, A voyage into the Indies, &c. by an English traveller, never before printed ; publish'd by Dr. Daniel Cox; Six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. English	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Phillips, John, 1631-1706.; Cox, Daniel, Dr.	1677 (1677)	Wing T255; ESTC R38194	848,815	637

King caus'd the Baker and the Cook to be apprehended and to be led quite thorough the City with two men going before them who cry'd to the people We are going to put the Baker into a red hot Oven made in the Piazza where he is to be bak'd alive for having utter'd Bread by false weights and the Cook is to be roasted alive for having sold meat by false weights Thus those two men serv'd for an example not only to Ispahan but to all the Kingdom where every one dreaded the severe justice of Sha-Abbas CHAP. III. Of what fell out most memorable in the Reign of Sha-Sefi the first and particularly of the death of Iman-Kouli-Kan and his three Sons I Man-Kouli-Kan was the last Kan of Schiras whose Government extended over the Province of Lar to the Golf of Persia under the Reign of Sha-Abbas these Kans being the most potent in all Persia. Iman-Kouli-Kan was he who in the Reign of Sha-Abbas conquer'd the greatest part of the Kingdom of Lar and the Kingdom of Ormus with all the Coast of the Persian Golf from Cape Jasques to Balsara This Iman-Kouli-Kan was prodigiously rich belov'd and respected by all the world besides he was wonderfully magnificent his expences almost equalling the Kings which occasion'd Sha-Abbas who discours'd with him one day particularly upon that Subject to tell him that he desir'd him to spend every day one Mamoudy less than he that there might be some difference between the expences of a King and a Kan The noble qualities of this Iman-Kouli-Kan had gain'd the affections of the people for he was magnificent and liberal highly recompenc'd brave Soldiers and Students he lov'd Strangers and had a particular care to cherish Arts and Sciences To which purpose he built a fair Colledg at Schiras for the instruction of Youth and several Inns as well in the City as upon the Road for the benefit of Travellers He caus'd Mountains to be cut thorough to shorten the way and join'd others by Bridges of such an adventurous Structure that it is hard to conjecture how such prodigious Arches could be made over such vast Precipices and Torrents Now in regard Iman-Kouli-Kan was strick'n in years he seldom went to Court chusing rather to continue in his Government where he was belov'd and respected by all men But the King being young and the Government of the Kingdom in the hands of the Queen-Mother and the Athemadoulet who were extreamly jealous of the Kan those two persons link'd together in interest for the maintenance of the Kings Authority and their own fretted to see the Kan's Court almost as splendid as the Kings and that nothing of the Revenue of Schiras Lar Ormus or any part of the Persian Golf came to the Kings Coffers as being solely at the disposal of the Kan but that on the contrary the King was oblig'd to send him Money to pay the Army But that which troubled the Queen-Mother most of all was the pretention of the Kan's eldest Son to the Crown whowas also a person of a daring and ambitious courage For the Kings of Persia esteem it a great Honour to bestow upon any Kan or great Lord one of their Wives out of their Royal Haram and Sha-Abbas had given to Iman-Kouli-Kan one of his own proper Wives whom he lov'd extreamly 'T is thought that when she left the Haram she was three months gone with Child by Sha-Abbas for somewhat above six months after she was bedded by the Kan she lay-in of a Son of which the King was the reputed Father and who being born before Sha-Sefi pretended a right before him to the Throne By vertue of this claim contrary to the will of Sha-Abbas in favour of Sha-Sefi this ambitious Lord who only pass'd for the Kan's eldest Son vehemently sollicited his Father to seize upon Sha-Sefi and to make himself King or at least to op'n a way for him to the Throne Now it happen'd that one day being a hunting with the young King near Schiras the impatient young Lord coming to his Father Sir said he see now the opportunity that offers you the Throne for I will go presently and bring you Sha-Sefi's head But the Kan holding his Son by the Arm told him that he would never consent to the death of his King protesting to him rather to dye a thousand deaths adding withall that it was the Kings will to appoint Sha-Sefi to succeed him as being the Son of his Son and consequently his lawful Heir that the young Prince was recommended to his care and in regard he had promis'd and sworn he was so far from falsifying his trust that he would maintain his possession to the last gasp This generous resolution of the Kan broke the young Lords design upon the Kings person However the Sultaness being not ignorant of the train that was laid for the young King and against the repose of the Kingdom thought it her wisest way to prevent the blow and to rid her self of such persons as had conspir'd the death of the King The Kan's two other Sons took part with him they call'd their elder Brother And as for the Kan himself though he were upright in his Loyalty yet his power his wealth his reputation among the Souldiery and the affection that the people bare him concurr'd together not only to render him suspected but guilty The Sultaness and the Athemadoulet took counsel together which way to divert the storm that threaten'd the Kings head to whom they represented that he was not safe in his own person so long as Iman-Kouli-Kan and his three eldest Sons liv'd The King easily believ'd them and resolv'd to be rid both of Father and Sons together but the difficulty was to get 'em to Court wherein opportunity it self assisted them For at that time Amurath the Great Turk at the head of a vast Army was already advanc'd within the Confines of Persia had tak'n Erivan and had ruin'd Tauris Upon the first news of this march the King sends for all the Kans and Governours to attend his person with all the Forces under their command Among the rest the Kan of Schiras receiv'd the same orders who thereupon assembl'd all his Troops both Horse and Foot who were not only the most numerous but the best disciplin'd and stoutest Souldiers of all Persia. As he was upon his march to Casbin with his three Sons the eldest having well consider'd of affairs Sir said he We are making hast to the King to the end our heads may the sooner fall at our feet Perhaps my Son reply'd the Kan thou maist speak the truth but to this day I never was a Rebel against the King I have done whatever he commanded and whatever may happ'n I will obey him till death The Kan arriving at Casbin was by the King welcom'd with great demonstrations of joy Some days after he took a general Muster and then made a great Feast which lasted three days to which all the great Lords and Kans

pain to the Prisner Thus was the Kan carry'd night and day to Ispahan but when he came there the King shew'd him more mercy and allowed him his house for a prison yet not suffering him to go to the Bath nor to shave his hair nor to stir out of the Apartment where his women were These are penalties impos'd upon those that fall into disgrace at Court whom the King shuts up in their houses intending no severer punishment For the Kan being belov'd by the King was restor'd to his favour and to his former charge of superintendant of the Kings Mosquee Neither did this sright'n others from bearing up against the Power of Mahomet Beg though every one had not the same success For ill it far'd with the Governour of Schiras who was call'd Mirza Haddi He was a person of great wealth and knowledge and one day in Council took upon him to tell Mahomed Beg that he was not of his opinion and withall to lay before him his defects and ill conduct But the Primce Minister so deeply lay'd to heart the boldness of Mirza Haddi that he resolv'd to revenge himself by all means imaginable He suborn'd false witnesses and other persons to make complaints before him of the Governour of Schlras There was a necessity for the party accus'd to appear before Mahomet Beg as his Judge but the Governor trusting to his Innocence nere minded the rage of his adversary not believing he could receive any injury from him In the mean time Mahomet Beg inform'd the King what he pleas'd himself and overpow'ring him by his authority confiscated all Mirza Haddi's Estate and sent him to prison to the House of the Nazar who was call'd Ismael Beg. When he came there they hung him upon Tenter-hooks by the feet against the wall and drub'd him so long that he was forc'd to be carri'd into another Room upon a Slaves back His Lieutenant and an Eunuch that had bin his Treasurer were serv'd in the same sawce and all three put into a high Chamber that serv'd instead of a prison His Vizier or Lieutenant was releas'd in a short while but Mirza Haddi and his Eunuch were still kept close Nor is the manner of his revenging himself upon Mir-Kassem-Beg the Deroga or Provost of Ispahan less remarkable While Mahomet Beg was only Majer-Bashi there was some gold Plate stoll'n out of the Kings Kitchin Thereupon the Deroga sent his Officers to seize upon all the Goldsmiths in Ispahan that knew nothing of the matter as being utterly innocent of the Robbery In the mean time he put them all in prison and lockt them close up intimating to them that he was resolv'd not to release them without a good sum of money The poor Goldsmiths thus ill us'd apply'd themselves to the Majer Bashi who sent his Officers to entreat the Deroga to consider that the Gold-smiths were innocent of the Robbery and that being in some manner under the Jurisdiction of the Mayer-Bashi as being Artificers in Gold and Silver he ought not to refuse to discharge them at his request But the Deroga not seeing the money come bid the Officers of Mahomet Beg tell their Master that he knew what belong'd to his Employment and further said he Let the Taylors Son meddle with his own business tell him withall added he that if he pleases I will shew him his Sister's drawers For a little before the Deroga had by his Spies surpriz'd her toying in a Garden with two young Lords from whom he squeez'd a considerable sum of money Mahomet Beg not powerful enough then to prosecute his revenge let it sleep but when he came to the height of preserment he remember'd the Deroga and bethought himself which way to ruin him Nor was it long ere an opportunity offer'd it self For there being a report that the Enemy appear'd about Candahar a Frontier Town of Persia upon the Mogulls Territories the Athemadoulet adviz'd the King to raise a good number of Souldiers about Ispahan as being lusty nimble fellows and us'd to labour and to send them to Candaliar to be ready against all accidents The King having an entire confidence in the Athemadoulet order'd him to lose no time but to commit the management of the Levies to such persons as had perfect knowledge of the plain Country Then Mahomet Beg studying his revenge told the King that there was no person fitter for the employment than the Deroga Mir Kassembeg who according to his cruel and covetous humor soon abus'd his Commission the thing which he who had procur'd it chiefly desir'd For whereas the King intended that none should be enroll'd but those that were willing the Deroga forc'd every body especially the Sons of the richest Farmers who rather than part with their Sons gave the Deroga his own demands to spare them When Mahomet Beg had got matter enough against the Deroga he underhand stirr'd up the Country people to make their complaint giving them to understand that it was contrary to the Kings intention to have them tormented in that manner that his Commission was only to list those that would go of their own accord The Villages easily encourag'd sent their Deputies to Ispahan whom he kindly receiv'd and presented the same hour to the King His Majesty having heard them and Mahomet Beg having seconded their complaint the King order'd that they should make an exact list of what the Commissioners of the Deroga had robb'd them of Mahomet Beg lost no time but by vertue of his Authority and the Kings command sent his Officers into all the Villages to take the Oath of every Countryman to the end they should declare the truth under the penalty of a Fine and Corporal punishment of what had been exacted from them to the utmost Shayet This Oath was to be put in Paper sign'd by every one that made it in these words Let my head be confiscated to the King and my goods to his Divan if I obey not punctually the Order of his Majesty The accompt being made of all the money for which they had compounded with the Deroga it was presented by Mahomet Beg who aggravated the Tyranny of the Deroga and represented to his Majesty that for thirty years he had thus devour'd the Territories of Ispahan Thereupon by the command of the King who was then at Ispahan the Deroga was to be carry'd into the Meydan and being ty'd up by the heels to receive a certain number of Bastinado's upon the feet for so many Fridays one after another and moreover the nerves of his heels were to be cut and his ankles to be boar'd thorough The Kings command being thus seal'd Mahomet Beg committed the execution thereof to his trusty Instrument Negef-Couli-Beg who coming to Ispahan assembl'd the chief of the City together with the Vizir or Governour and the Deroga or Provost who thought of nothing being met before they broak open the Kings Seal they made a publick Prayer for the prosperity of the King which being

gave him fifteen days Thereupon the King did go to the Treasury next morning according to Mahomet's desire and found all things in good order having heard before what became of the Scimitar From thence he went to Mahomet's House who made the King a mean Present For it is the custom that he whom the King honours with a Visit must make a Present to his Majesty After the King had receiv'd it he walk'd up and down and view'd the Chambers Halls Parlours and Rooms of State and wonder'd to see them so ill set out with plain Felts and course Carpets whereas in other Lords Houses a man could not set his Foot upon any thing but Cloth of Gold and Silk For the King as they had set the Nazar out expected to have found other things which made him admire at so great a Moderation in so high a degree of Honour Now at the end of a Gallery there was a Door lockt with three great Padlocks Of this the King took no notice whereupon the Meter who is the White Eunuch and chief of his Chamber as he came back shew'd the King the Door that was so strongly Padlock'd which made the King curious to have it open'd withal asking Mahomet what he had got there lock'd up with so much care Oh Sir said he it behoves me to keep that lockt for there is all the Estate I have in the World All that your Majesty has seen in this House is yours but all that is in that Chamber is mine and I dare assure my self your Majesty will be so gracious as never to take it from me Those words inflam'd the King's curiosity so that he commanded the Door to be open'd But he was strangely surpriz'd when he saw nothing more within than Mahomet's Sheep-hook that lay upon two Nails his Scrip wherein he us'd to put his Victuals his Bottle for his Water his Pipe and his Shepherd's Weeds all hanging against the Wall The Nazar beholding the King's astonishment at such a Sight Sir said he when the King Sha-Abas found me in the Mountain keeping Goats then that was all I had and he took nothing from me I beseech your Majesty that you would not deprive me of these things neither but rather if you please let me resume them again and fall to my old Calling The King touch'd at so high a piece of Virtuo caus'd himself to be disapparel'd and gave his Habit to the Nazar which is the greatest Honour that the King of Persia can bestow upon a Subject Thus Mahomet continu'd and dy'd honourably in his Employment This brave Person was the Protector of all the Franks in Persia and if any one had done them wrong upon complaint he did them Justice immediately One day as I was shooting Ducks upon the River of Ispahan near the Nazar's Gardens with two Servants some of the Nazar's people that did not know me set upon me and would have taken away my Gun which I would not let go till I had broke the Stock about the Shoulders of the one and flung the Barrel at the other 's Head Thereupon I took some of the Franks along with me and complain'd to the Nazar He testifi'd his sorrow for what had happen'd and gave us evident Proofs thereof by the blows which he caus'd to be laid upon those that had done me the injury Another time Sha-Sefi being upon his return from Guilan his Tents were set up near Zulfa in Armenia where the King staid to hunt two or three days Now among the rest of the Courtizans that follow'd the Court to divertise the King with Dancing and Mummery there was one who was perfectly handsom to whom the King had already sent Presents which could not be unknown to any Lord i' the Court. But the Nazar's Son for all that being in the heat of Youth got this Courtizan to his Tent and there lay with her which came to his Father's Ears next day The Nazar whether out of his zeal to the Ring or whether it were an effect of his prudence to prevent the King's anger which would have certainly been the death of his Son caus'd him to be drub'd after the manner of the Country and bastinado'd all over till the Nails of his Toes dropt off and that his Body was almost a perfect Gelly Which when the King understood together with the Young Man's Crime he said no more but that the Nazar had done wisely by punishing his Son himself to prevent his Justice But to return to the Road from Kerman to Ispahan The first day that I set out from Kerman at my Stage in the Evening I met with a rich Moullah who seeing I had Wine civilly offer'd me some of his Ice to cool it In retaliation I gave him some of my Bottle He invited me to his House which was well built with a handsom Garden with Water in it He entertain'd me with Spoon-meat according to the mode of the Country and when I took my leave he fill'd my Boracho with very good Wine The following days I saw nothing worthy observation the Country being as I have already describ'd it Yezd lyes in the Road almost in the mid-way between Kerman and Ispahan in 93 Deg. 15 Min. of Longitude and 13 Deg. 45 Min. of Latitude It is a great Town in the middle of the Sands that extend themselves for two Leagues round it so that when you leave Yezd you must take a Guide for upon the least Wind the Sand covers the Highway whereby a man may be apt to fall into Holes which seem to have been either old Cisterns or the Ruines of ancient Buildings Between the Town and the Sands there is a little good Soil which produces excellent Fruits but above all Melons of several sorts the Pulp of some is green of others yellow and vermilion and some there are the meat whereof is as hard as a Renneting There are also very good Grapes and good Wine but the Governour will not permit the Inhabitants to make Wine Some therefore they dry and of the rest they make a kind of Confection to cat with Bread There are also abundance of Figs which are large and well tasted They distil vast quantities of Rose-water and another sort of Water with which they dye their Hands and Nails red which they squeeze out of a certain Root call'd Hina There are three Inns i' th' City and several Bazars or Market-places cover'd and vaulted which are full of Merchants and Workmens Ware-houses They also make at Yezd several Stuffs of Silk intermix'd with Gold and Silver which they call Zerbaste and another sort of Stuff of all pure Silk call'd Daraï like our smooth strip'd Taffata's Other Stuffs they make half Silk half Cotton others all of Cotton like our Fustians They make also Serges of a particular Wool which is so fine and delicate that it looks handsomer and is much better than Silk Though I had nothing to do I staid in Yezd three days because I met with

day that Sha-jehan was an Hunting upon one of his Elephants with one of his Sons that sate by him to fan him the Elephant became so furious by reason of his lust that the Governor who was by no means able to master him declar'd to the King that to allay the fury of the Elephant who would else doubtless bruise him to pieces among the Trees there was no way but for one of the three to forfeit his life and that he would willingly sacrifice his for the safety of the King and the Prince his Son Only he desir'd his Majesty to take care of three small Children which he must leave behind him Having so said he threw himself under the Elephant's-feet who had no sooner taken him in his trunk and squeez'd him to pieces with his feet but he grew as quiet and peaceable as before The King as an acknowledgment for so famous a deliverance gave to the poor two-hunder'd-thousand Roupies and highly advanc'd every one of the Sons of him that had so generously laid down his life for the safety of his Sovereign I observ'd also that though the Elephant's skin be very hard while he is alive yet when he is dead it is just like melted-glue Elephants are brought from several parts of India as from the Island of Ceylan where they are very small but the most couragious of all from the Isle of Sumatra from the Kingdom of Cochin from the Kingdom of Siam and from the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Boutam neer the Great Tartarie They are brought also from the Coast of Melinda Eastward of Affrica where they are in very great numbers according to the report of a Portugueze-Captain made at Goa who came from thence to make some complaint against the Governor of Mozambique He told me that he had seen all along that Coast several Parks that were empal'd with nothing but Elephants-teeth the least of which Parks is above a league about He added farther that the Blacks of the Countrey hunt their Elephants and eat the flesh But they are oblig'd to give the tusks of every one they kill to the Lord of the place When they intend to take their Elephants in the Island of Ceylan they make a long lane clos'd in on both sides so that the Elephant can neither run to the right nor to the left this lane is broad at the first but grows narrower and narrower till there is no more room left at the farther-end than for the female-Elephant to lie down which must be one that is covetous of the male at the same time Though she be tame yet she is bound with good Ropes and Cords and by her cries will call the male-Elephant who presently runs through the lane towards her Now when the Elephant comes where the lane grows narrow they that lie hid for that purpose immediately barricado up the lane behind and when he comes neer the female there is another barricado set up that stops him from going any farther When he is thus between the Barricado's they so intangle his legs and trunk with ropes and cords that he is soon taken having no way to help himself The same way they use for the most part in the Kingdoms of Siam and Pegu only that the Natives there mount the female-Elephant and go to find out the male in the Forrests And when they have met with his haunt they tye the female to the most convenient place they can find and then they fix their snares for the Elephant who in a short time hastens toward the female hot for generation where her cries call him This is observable of the female-Elephant that when she begins to be hot she gathers together a great heap of herbs and weeds and makes her self a kind of bed some four or five-foot-high from the ground where contrary to the custom of all other creatures she lies upon her back in expectation of the male whom she calls to her by a peculiar cry This is also particular to the Elephants in the Isle of Ceylan that only the first Elephant which the female produces has any tusks And it is also observable that the Ivory which comes from Achen when it is wrought has this peculiar quality with it that it never grows yellow like that which comes out of the Continent and from the East-Indies which makes it more esteem'd and dearer than any other When the Merchants bring Elephants to any place to sell 't is a pleasant sight to see them go along For in regard there are generally old and young together when the old ones are gone by the children will be running after the little ones to play with them and give them something or other to eat While the young Elephants which are very wanton are busily taking what is offer'd them the children leap upon their backs but then the young Elephants that lately stopt for the lucre of victuals perceiving their Dams a great way before them double their pace and playing with their trunks throvv the children off their backs to the ground yet vvithout doing them any harm Notvvithstanding all the enquiry I have made I could never find exactly hovv long an Elephant vvill live Nor can all the governors and keepers of those creatures tell you more then that such an Elephant has been in the possession of their Father their Grandfather and great Grandfather And by that computation I found that they had liv'd some of them six-score or an hunder'd and thirty years The greatest part of those that have made Relations of India boldly affirm that the Great Mogul keeps three or four-thousand Elephants But being my self at Jehanabad where the King at present resides he that was chief Master of the Elephants assur'd me that the King had not above five-hunder'd Elephants which were call'd Elephants of the House made use of only to carry the Women their Tents and Luggage but that for the Wars he only kept fourscore or four-score and ten at most The noblest of the latter sort is always reserv'd for the King 's Eldest Son the allowance for his food and other necessaries being 500 Roupies a month which comes to 750 Livres There are some that are not allow'd above 50 others 40 others 30 and some but 20 Roupies But those Elephants that are allow'd an hunder'd two-hunder'd three-hunder'd or four-hunder'd Roupies a-month have belonging to them certain Horse-men that live upon the same pay and two or three young fellows to fan them during the heat of the weather All these Elephants are not always kept in the City the greatest part being led out every morning into the fields or among the thickets where they feed upon the branches of Trees Sucre-canes and Millet to the great detriment of the poor Countrey man But not a little to the profit of their Keepers for the less they eat at home the more they gain into their own purses The twenty-seventh of August we travell'd six leagues and lay at a great Town call'd