tavernier's

Updated: May 12, 2025

If any one wants to know what Delhi was like in the seventeenth century during Aurungzebe's long reign, and how the daily life in the Palace went, and would learn more of the power and autocracy and splendour and cruelty of the Grand Moguls, let him get Tavernier's record.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - Roving East and Roving West

This is the largest diamond in existence; a drawing of it may be seen in Tavernier's Travels. Elphinstone, after describing the ceremonies, says, "I must admit that if certain things, especially the extraordinary richness of the royal costume, excited my astonishment, there was also much that fell below my expectations.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

This passage has been so repeatedly quoted in works on Ceylon that it has passed into an aphorism, and is always adduced as a testimony to the surpassing intelligence of the elephants of that island; although a reference to the original shows that Tavernier's observations are not only fanciful in themselves, but are restricted to the supposed excellence of the Ceylon animal in war.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon