[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) › 8.2 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 8.2 Travels in India (Ball) 8.2 - **Language:** English ### [8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.2) This it is which is so inconvenient for travellers, because, when they meet caravans of this description in narrow roads, they are sometimes obliged to wait two or three days till all have passed. Those who drive these oxen follow no other trade all their lives ; they never dwell in houses, and they take with them their women and children. Some among them possess 100 oxen, others have more or fewer, and they all have a Chief, who acts as a prince, and who always has a chain of pearls suspended from his neck. When the caravan which carries corn and that which carries rice meet, rather than give way one to the other, they often engage in very sanguinary encounters. The Great Mogul, considering one day that these quarrels were prejudicial to commerce and to the transport of food in his kingdom, arranged that the Chiefs of the two caravans should come to see him. When they had arrived, the King, after he had advised them for their mutual benefit to live for the future in harmony with each other, and not to fight any more when they met, presented each of them with a lakh, or 100,000 rupees, and a chain of pearls. - [Previous: 8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.1) - [Next: 8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.3) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.2) · Pramāṇa