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Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow. Travelling with the Mughal army Bernier often travelled with the army. This is an excerpt from his description of the army’s march to Kashmir: I am expected to keep two good Turkoman horses, and I also take with me a powerful Persian camel and driver, a groom for my horses, a cook and a servant to go before my horse with a flask of water in his hand, according to the custom of the country. I am also provided with every useful article, such as a tent of moderate size, a carpet, a portable bed made of four very strong but light canes, a pillow, a mattress, round leather table-cloths used at meals, some few napkins of dyed cloth, three small bags with culinary utensils which are all placed in a large bag, and this bag is again carried in a very capacious and strong double sack or net made of leather thongs. This double sack likewise contains the provisions, linen and wearing apparel, both of master and servants. I have taken care to lay in a stock of excellent rice for five or six days’ consumption, of sweet biscuits flavoured with anise (a herb), of limes and sugar. Nor have I forgotten a linen bag with its small iron hook for the purpose of suspending and draining dahi or curds; nothing being considered so refreshing in this country as lemonade and dahi. 1. Who was Bernier? To whom did he dedicate his most famous creations? 2. Write any two materials other than food given by him. 3. Write the things which were given to him to eat.

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1.(a) He was a French traveller. 

(b) He dedicated his most famous creations to French monarch Louis XIV. 

2. (a) A cook ,

 (b) A mattress 

3. (a) Excellent rice 

(b) Sugar 

(c) Sweet Biscuits.



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