[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) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 17.1.1 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 17.1.1 Travels in India (Ball) 17.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [17.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.17.1.1) I have given an exact description of a part of this route, and I have conducted the reader as far as KandahAr. It remains for me now to take him from KandahAr to Agra, to which one can go by two routes only, either by KAbul or by MultAn. This last is shorter than the other by ten days, but the caravan scarcely ever takes it, because from KandahAr to MultAn there is nothing but deserts almost all the way, and because one marches sometimes for three or four days without finding water. Hence the most common and the most beaten track is by KAbul. From KandahAr to KAbul they count it 24 stages; from KAbul to Lahore, 22; from Lahore to Delhi or JahAnAbAd, 18; and from Delhi to Agra, 6: this, with the 60 stages from Ispahan to Farah, and the 20 from Faraii to KandahAr, make in all, from Ispahan to Agra, 150 stages. But those merchants who have urgent business sometimes join in parties of three or four on horseback, and accomplish the journey in half the time, that is to say in 60 or 75 days. - [Previous: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.16) - [Next: 17.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.17.1.2) - [Up: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.17.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.17.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.17.1.1) · Pramāṇa