[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 19.6.8 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 19.6.8 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 19.6.8 - **Language:** English ### [19.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6.8) that caravans go thither every year, which return laden with the articles I have enumerated, and proceed to Persia by way of Usbek; as there are others that go from Katay to Patna, in Hindoustan. They also informed me that the way from Kacheguer to Katay is through a small town, eight days' journey from Coten, and that Coten is the last town on that side in the kingdom of Kacheguer. The road from Kachemire to Kacheguer, they said, is extremely bad, and among other difficult paths, there is the place where, in every season, you must go a quarter of a league over ice. This is all the information I could collect concerning these regions; it is certainly confused and scanty, but after all will be found tolerably complete considering the ignorance of these people, seldom able to give reasons for anything, and that I had also to deal with interpreters who experienced the utmost difficulty both in clearly stating my interrogatories, and in explaining satisfactorily the answers. Here I intended to close this letter, or rather this book, and take my leave of you until our return to Dehli; but my inclination for writing is still strong, and I enjoy some leisure. I shall endeavour, therefore, to answer the five questions which you put to me in your last letter, on behalf of the industrious and inquisitive Monsieur Thevenot, who makes greater and more important discoveries in his study than others who circumnavigate the globe. - [Previous: 19.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6.7) - [Next: 19.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6.9) - [Up: 19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.6.8) · Pramāṇa