Second Journey
In September 1638 he began a second journey (1638–43) traveling via Aleppo to Persia, and thence to India as far as Agra and from there to The Kingdom of Golkonda. His visit to the court of the Great Mogul - Emperor Shah Jahan at the time - and to the diamond mines was connected with the plans realized more fully in his later voyages, in which Tavernier traveled as a merchant of the highest rank, trading in costly jewels and other precious wares, and finding his chief customers among the greatest princes of the East.
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