[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) › 8.9 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 8.9 Travels in India (Ball) 8.9 - **Language:** English ### [8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.9) You pay each, for everything, only 4 rupees a month, but you pay up to 5 rupees when the journey is long, and when it is required to travel for more than sixty days. Whether by carriage or pallankeen he who desires to travel with honour in India ought to take with him 20 or 30 armed men, some with bows and arrows and others with muskets, and you pay them as much per month as to those who carry the pallankeen. Sometimes, for greater show, you carry a flag. This is always done by the English and Dutch, for the honour of their Companies. These attendants not only conduce to your honour, but they watch also for your protection, and act as sentinels in the night, relieving one another, and striving to give you no cause of complaint against them. For it should be mentioned that in the towns where you hire them they have a head man who answers for their honesty, and when you employ them, each one gives him a rupee. In the large villages there is generally a Muhammadan Governor, and there you find sheep, fowl, and pigeons for sale; but in the places where there are only Banians, you only find flour, rice, vegetables, and milk. - [Previous: 8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.8) - [Next: 8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.10) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.8.9) · Pramāṇa