[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) › 9.3.6 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 9.3.6 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 9.3.6 - **Language:** English ### [9.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3.6) The Princesses and great ladies of the Seraglio have also different modes of travelling. Some prefer tchaudoules, which are borne on men's shoulders, and are not unlike the tact-ravans. They are gilt and painted and covered with magnificent silk nets of many colours, enriched with embroidery, fringes, and beautiful tassels. Others travel in a stately and close paleky, gilt and covered, over which are also expanded similar silk nets. Some again use capacious litters, suspended between two powerful camels, or between two small elephants. It is in this style I have sometimes seen Rauchenara-Begum pursuing her journey, and have observed more than once in front of the litter, which was open, a young, well-dressed female slave, with a peacock's tail in her hand, brushing away the dust, and keeping off the flies from the Princess. The ladies are not unfrequently carried on the backs of elephants, which upon these occasions wear massive bells of silver, and are decked with costly trappings, curiously embroidered. These lovely and distinguished females, seated in Mikdembers, are thus elevated above the earth, like so many superior beings borne along through the middle region of the air. Each Mikdember contains eight women, four on a side: it is latticed and covered with a silken net, and yields not in richness and splendour to the tchaudmle or the tact-ravan, - [Previous: 9.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3.5) - [Next: 9.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3.7) - [Up: 9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.3.6) · Pramāṇa