[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) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 88.1.3 # Storia do Mogor 88.1.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 88.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [88.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1.3) The first of these consisted of nine boxes of lapis-lazuli, a marvellous thing, all full of musk, and of a kind of tuber of violet colour, which Arabs and Persians call zeduar. It is a rare article, and most medicinal. In others was a certain kind of fish that physicians call instinco \[26\] of Mecca, which are found in a certain stream of the said kingdom of Balkh. The preparation made from these is so pungent that one ounce of it is equal to four ounces of Mecca instinco. Mahomedans make great use of these fish as a remedy for impotence, and to increase sexual desire. The second present consisted in some eighty camels with long hair and of great strength, and one small horse, well made and lively, of such singular activity that it could travel eighty leagues in twenty-four hours without any difficulty. There were other eighty fine horses, such as are called Turki. The third present consisted in one hundred camels loaded with fresh fruit — melons, apples, pears, pomegranates, and grapes without seeds; and other hundred camels loaded with dried fruit — Bukhara plums, the best in the world, apricots, quismis (= kishmish, or raisins), which are a white, seedless grape of great sweetness, and other three kinds of dried grapes, one large and white, which looks candied and the Italians call zebibo, and the other two kinds purple — one large, the other small, both very sweet — and nuts, filberts, pine-nuts, almonds, and pistachios. - [Previous: 88.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1.2) - [Next: 88.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1.4) - [Up: 88.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.88.1.3) · Pramāṇa