The Vindhaya mountains are obviously here meant; but they
are on the left hand of the route between Surat and Boorhanpoor. - E.]
This is the last town of note in the land of Pectopshaw, who is a
small king or rajah of the Gentiles, keeping on the tops of inaccessible
mountains, which begin at Curka, and extend to many cosses distance.
He holds possession of two fair cities, Salere and Muliere, where
the mamudies are coined. Each of these towns has two mighty castles, the
roads to which only admit of two men abreast, or an elephant at most;
having also on the way eighty small fortresses dispersed among the
mountains to guard the passage. On the tops of these mountains there is
good pasture and abundance of grain, with numerous fountains or streams,
which run thence into the plains. Akbar besieged him for seven years,
and was in the end obliged to compound with him, giving him Narampore
Dayta and Badur, with several other aldeas, for safely conducting his
merchants along this plain; so that he is now in peace with the king, to
whom he sends presents yearly, and leaves one of his sons in Boorhanpoor
as a pledge of his fealty. He is said to have always in readiness 4000
mares of an excellent breed, and 100 elephants.
Leaving Badur on the 26th, I went 7 coss to Nonderbar, or Nundabar, a
city, short of which are many tombs and houses of pleasure, with a
castle and a fair tank.
![A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 8 - By Robert Kerr
- - E.]
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