[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) › 24.2.1 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 24.2.1 Travels in India (Ball) 24.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [24.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.2.1) After the elephants, the camels follow two by two, sometimes up to thirty or forty. Each camel has its saddle, upon which they place a small culverin which a man, clad in a skin from head to foot, like a sort of pantaloon, and seated on the crupper of the camel with a lighted match in hand, quickly turns from side to side before the balcony where the King is. You see coming after them the carriages, around which the servants walk on foot, after which the led-horses appear, and finally the noble to whom this whole equipment belongs, preceded by ten or twelve courtesans, who await him at the end of the bridge, leaping and dancing before him up to the square. After him the cavalry and infantry follow in good order. And as all that affords a spectacle, and has something of pomp about it, during three or four consecutive months which I have sometimes spent at Bhagnagar, my lodging being in the main street, I enjoyed the amusement every week of seeing these fine troops passing, which are more or less numerous according to the rank of the noble who has been on guard in his turn. - [Previous: 24.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.1.8) - [Next: 24.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.2.2) - [Up: 24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.24.2.1) · Pramāṇa