[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) › 2.1.1 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.1.1 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 2.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [2.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.2.1.1) THE desire of seeing the world, which had induced me to visit Palestine and Egypt, still prompted me to extend my travels, and I formed the design of exploring the Red Sea from one end to the other. In pursuance of this plan, I quitted Grand Cairo, where I had resided more than a year, and in two-and-thirty hours (travelling at a Caravan-rate) reached the town of Suez. Here I embarked in a galley, and was conveyed in seventeen days, always hugging the coast, from Suez to the port of Gidda, half a day's journey from Mecca. Contrary to my expectation, and in violation of a promise which I had received from the Beig of the Red Sea, I was constrained to land on this so-called holy territory of Mahomet, where no Christian, who is not a slave, dares set his foot. After a detention of nearly five weeks, I took my passage on board a small vessel, which, sailing along the shores of Arabia Felix, brought me in fifteen days to Moka, near the straits of Bab-el-mandel. It was now my intention to pass over to the island of Masotva, and Arkiko, on my way to Gonder, the capital of Habech, or Kingdom of Ethiopia; but I was informed that Catholics were not safe in that country, since the period when, through the intrigues of the Queen-Mother, the Portuguese were slaughtered, or expelled, with the Jesuit Patriarch whom they had brought thither from Goa; and that, in fact, an unhappy Capuchin had been recently beheaded at Suaken, for having attempted to enter the kingdom. - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.1) - [Next: 2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.2.1.2) - [Up: 2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.2.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.2.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.2.1.1) · Pramāṇa