Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656-1668 by François Bernier, Translated, on the basis of Irving Brock’s version and annotated by Archibald Constable 1891, Second Edition, revised by Vincent A. Smith, M.A. (Oxford University Press 1916)
Page 430. ‘There are, however, many signs of Judaism to be found in this country. On entering the Kingdom after crossing the Pire-penjale mountains, the inhabitants in the frontier villages struck me as resembling Jews. Their countenance and manner, and that indescribable peculiarity which enables a traveller to distinguish the inhabitants of different nations, all seemed to belong to that ancient people. You are not to ascribe what I say to mere fancy, the Jewish appearance of these villagers having been remarked by our Jesuit Father, and by several other Europeans, long before I visited Kachemire.’