A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 9 - By Robert Kerr












































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in two months, the approach of winter - Page 521
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But, It Was Farther Said, If The Armies Did Not Come To Battle In Two Months, The Approach Of Winter, And The Wants Attendant On Such Numerous Bodies Of Men, Would Constrain Both To Quit The Field.

It is thought the Persians will not adventure a battle, though 180,000 strong, as, being light, and unencumbered

With cannon or baggage, they are fitted for rapid marches, and can harass the Turkish army with perpetual skirmishes and assaults on all sides, hovering round about, and wasting them, without hazard to themselves.

Sec.6. Sir Thomas Roe follows the Progress of the Court, and describes the King's Leskar, and some Places through which he passed; with instances of the King's Superstition and Drunkenness, and some curious Incidents respecting a Present.

The 25th of November I removed four cosses from Agimere, but waited during the remainder of that month, for the arrival of a caravan, going from Agra to Surat, by which I might transmit my papers in safety. The caravan departed from Agimere at midnight of the 30th November: and on the 1st December I went six cosses to Ramsor, where the king had left the naked bodies of an hundred men, put to death for robbery. The 2d I travelled seven c. I rested the 3d, because of rain. The 4th I went five c. and this day I overtook a camel, laden with 300 heads, sent from Candahar to the king, the people to whom these heads had belonged having been in rebellion.

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