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where also we din'd with them. After which we re-
tir'd to one of the houses which stand in the street,
which they call Terzi (Darzi) Carvanserai, that is the
Tayler's Tnn. For you must know that the Carvan-
serai, or Inns, in Ahmedabad, and other Great Cities
of India, are not, as in Persia and Turkey, one single
habitation, made in form of a great Cloyster, with
abundance of Lodgings round about, separate one from
another, for quartering of strangers; but they are whole
great streets of the City destinated for strangers to
dwell in, and whosoever is minded to hire a house; and
because these streets are lockt up in the night time
for security of the persons and goods which are there,
therefore they call them Carvanserai. Notwithstanding
the wearisomness of our journey, because we were to
stay but a little while at Ahmedabad, therefore after
a little rest we went the same evening to view the
market-place, buying sundry things. It displeas'd me
sufficiently that the streets not being well pav'd, al-
though they are large, fair and strait, yet through the
great dryness of the earth they are so dusty that there's
almost no going afoot, because the foot sinks very deep
in the ground with great defilement; and the going on
horseback, or in a coach, is likewise very troublesome
in regard of the dust, a thing indeed of great dispar-
agement to so goodly and great a city as this is. I saw
in Ahmedabad roses, flowers of jasmin and other sorts,
and divers such fruits as we have in our countries in
the summer; whence I imagin'd, that probably, we had
repass'd the Tropick of Cancer, and re-enter M a little
