[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) › 9.5.3 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 9.5.3 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 9.5.3 - **Language:** English ### [9.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5.3) You are no doubt at a loss to conceive how so vast a number both of men and animals can be maintained in the field. The best solution of the difficulty will be found in the temperance of the Indians and simple nature of their diet. Of the five-score thousand troopers not a tenth, no not a twentieth part, eat animal food; they are satisfied with their kichery, a mess of rice and other vegetables, over which, when cooked, they pour boiled butter. It should be considered too that camels endure fatigue, hunger, and thirst in a surprising degree, live upon little, and eat any kind of food. At the end of every march, they are left to browse in the fields, where everything serves for fodder. It is important likewise to observe that the same tradesmen who supply the bazars in Dehli are compelled to furnish them in the camp; the shops of which they are composed being kept by the same persons whether in the capital or in the field. These poor people are at great pains to procure forage: they rove about from village to village, and what they succeed in purchasing, they endeavour to sell in the army at an advanced price. It is a common practice with them to clear, with a sort of trowel, whole fields of a peculiar kind of grass, which having beaten and washed, they dispose of in the camp at a price sometimes very high and sometimes inadequately low. - [Previous: 9.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5.2) - [Next: 9.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5.4) - [Up: 9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.5.3) · Pramāṇa