'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎10] (323/1024)

An account of the Money of As i a. ParTlT
Fig. 2. Weighs two ounces, three drams and an half: the whole c
eight Livres, ten Sous, and feven Deneers. ° mes t0
Fig. 3. Weighs one ounce, half a dram, and twelve grains i the
to four Livres, five Sous, and five Deneers. e conie s
' 4* Weighs one ounce, eight grains : the whole comes to three I ,V
ten Sous, and an eleven Deneers. MVres >
Fig. 5. Weighs feven drams, one quarter, and feven grains: the whole
to three Livres, eight Sous, and eight Deneers. < comes
Fig. 6. Weighs two drams and an half, and twenty four grains: the ^ 1
Comes to one Livre, five Sous, and one Deneer. * Wll0le
Fig. 7f Weighs two drams, twenty four Deneers : the whole comeefn
Livre, nine Deneers. 510 oric
Fig. 8. Weighs one dram and an half, and twenty four grains: the whole mm
to lixteen Sous, and four Deneers. conies
Fig. 9 . Is the Copper-Money which they thread by fifteen, thirty fifW *
the number of 600. which is the value of a Tell in Silver. Over all WVi”
reckon by Tells: and the Hollanders reckon, that a Tell makes three Geld
and an half of their Money, which comes to four Livres, and five Sousof
Fig, 10. Is the back-fide of the Copper-piece.
Money that reprefents the Figures of the twelve Signs ; and which wen
Coined during the twenty four hours, that Gehati-guir, King of the Indi.
ans, permitted Queen Nourmahall, Wife, to Reign in his Jtead.
S Vltun Selim, otherwife called Gehanguir Patcka, the ninth King of the M.
MS, Father of Cha-gehan, was a great Lover of Women : but he had a mr-
l, lci ' lai ‘ affeftionfor one among the reft, which he kept in his Seraelio : and which
he had Efpous d as meriting more than ordinary. She was a Woman of a Sublime
W it, and very liberal ■,and Iheknewfo well how topleafethe King’s humour and
to divertize him, that he could not live without her. She had two Names ’the
one was Nour-gehan-hgum, which fignifies the light of the World-, and this was
the Name which was engraven upon her Signet: for as I have obferv’d in my
Relations, they neyer 5 ign anything, but only fet their Seals. The other NatiK
/ ^ch ihe was call d at Court, was Nour-mahall which fignifies the Right of
the Serug&o. She was always a great enemy to the King’s two Sons: more efne-
iS to thf-K-on^’ W n 0 FF C r a !^ M r Kourom and wh0 afterwards come-
defisns of P C r ^ h ™^ lf Cha-gehan. He fet himfelf to oppofe all the
thaHFo '' V ^ 10 ’ j 0r , her P art ’ had an Afcendant over the King,
der^nHToi^ v ed hlm “ f P enc ! thc S reate ft part of the yearin the Country, un-
mis'hf pL i 1C v K - ce “ al "f^ su P° n the Frontiers to rife againfthim, that ihe
Oulen blin^ ^ a ”’. and kee P him from the company of his Sons. This
altogether Ambitious, made it her bufinefs to pleafe the King, that
fhe might the more eafily accomplilh her defigns; and havhig a great dike to
Quantity ofMonev^’ ^ could “ ot think of a better way, din tSn agoS
the wL Sr 7 m ^ ° Wn ^ ame: and ofa different ftamp from that which
ofthoftK^ W6re 7 ° n u to C/Jin.For you muft take notice,that all the Coins
Piece f o ° n y tbe^Charadters of the Countrey upon each fide of the
each firle of m c • Caus d one ° 7 tke twelve Signs to be ftamp’d upon
nemfrpo ’ wklc ®' is contrary to the Law of Mahomet, that forbids all man-
fl°l teprefentations. However, Ihe had never brought her defign about, had
ihe etf Tw b fj n a c C011rt; But took her time, when the King had caus’d
SultanKofrou to be put out, becaufe he had,taken up
he had ln , tefl t'°h to depofe him from his Throne. For after
tain d that Vnftbry, he fent his fecond Son, Sultan Kimrom, into Beatn,
with