Travels in India (Tavernier) 11.8

11.8

They obtain their livelihood from the passengers, from whom they take the most that they can; but for that it were easy to facilitate the passage by making a bridge, since there is no lack of either wood or stone. From Gate to Nader (Narwar), 4 coss. Narwar is a large town on the slope of a mountain, above which there is a kind of fortress, and the whole mountain is surrounded by walls. The majority of the houses, as is the case in the other towns of India, are covered with thatch, and have only one storey ; and those of the wealthy have but two, and are terraced. You see around the town several large tanks, which were formerly lined with cut stone, and which they have neglected to maintain ; but at about one league off there are still some beautiful tombs. The same river which one has crossed the day before, and which one re-crosses four or five coss beyond Narwar, surrounds the three sides of the town and of the mountain, of which it makes a sort of peninsula, and after a long and tortuous course it discharges itself in the Ganges. They make at Narwar a quantity of quilted coverlets, some white, others embroidered with flowers in gold, silver, and silk. From Nader to Barqui-sera (Bārkī Sarāī) . 9 coss. ,, Barqui-sera to Trie (Antrī) . . 3 ,, „ Trie to Goualeor (Gwalior) . . 6 ,,