'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎268] (291/448)

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he died miferably at home by poyfon, which he fuckt voluntarily rather than be Oain, as
ftory fays, by the enraged multitude, in the eighty eighth year of his age, in the fifth
year and eighth month of his Caliphlhip, Anno Bom, 655. of the Heg. 35. i n hi s
place Ally the right Heir attended with ten thoufand Perfiam and twenty thoufand Arabi
ans was at Mecha faluted Caliph ; but his Reign was full of mifery •, for Mavi the Syrian
chief of the Ommian Race, ftorming at 0finals fall and thinking himfelf worthy to fuc-
ceed, with an hundred thoufand Men enters Arabia with a refolution to depofe^Z/y- but
in the encounter was well beaten and loft ten thoufand of his Men: Howbeit, at the fecond
tryal, Ally loft not onely the day but his Life and Myter. Of the Egyptians in this bloody
fight were flain fifteen thoufand, of Saracens twenty thoufand •, by which Vidory Mavi or
Mnavias was faluted King. Mortis-Ally ( fo called from Hilaly i. e. Lima, upon her defcent
to evidence the Prophets Eledion) died aged 63. and was buried (near to Cufe upon Eh-
fhrates)zt Mofqued or Majfad-Ally, Karh-AUy fome mifcall it. He left a Ring with which the
Per fan Kings wed their Kingdom: its Motto is to this purpofe(faytheA/<?/^ J Corde fmcero
Beum veneror. By the Perfians he is called Emyr -el-memHmim x \.e. Prince of the Faithful.
By Fatyma {Mahomet 's fole Child) he had Ocen ( or Hoc em J who after few months pre
tended rule died poyfoned, Anno Dom. 666. of the Heg. 46. and was buried at Mefqmt
Ally his Symbol ( as fayes the Juchafin) was Solus Dens Pot ens. Mavi (Ally 's, tormentor)
foon after Hoc en 's death flew eleven of his Children*, the twelfth efcaped, Mufa Cherefm
or Mahomet Mahadin by name, from whom the Kings of Perjia at this day fay they are de-
fcended. This Mahomet Mahadin is thought ftill alive, and to return again •, which caufes
the King to have a Horfe ever ready for him •, though 1 believe the Horfe is rather con
tinued from the old cuftom of that Horfe which was dedicated to the Sun, as I have elfe-
where related. Mavi Lord of the Ben-Humian or Ommian Family having ftated himlelf
in the Government, fent Sufindus his Kinfman with a great force againft the Grecians,
Accordingly SiifindnshQUegGS SyracHfe, and after that By&anth : butby Conjl amine the Em-
perour fucceflor to Heraclius was flain with thirty thoufand other Saracens of his Army.
That fame year the Plague raged fo terribly in the Mahometan Empire that the like was
never formerly known: amongft the reft Mavi expired, aged feventy feven, and in his
Reign over ^gypt, &c. twenty four-, his Symbol this (as is reported) Ignofce precor.
Which Mavi was fo implacably bent agai n&Mortis- Ally and his Race, that not content to
have deftroy'd him and eleven of his Grand-Children, he caufed an Anathema to be daily
ufed in their Common-Prayer againft him, continued by the Ommian Family for eight
Defcents, till by Omar the fifteenth Caliph it was abolilhed: It was requited by AhdalU-
Sophy (the Anceftor of Abbas now reigning) who was the two and twentieth Caliph, and
no fooner feated but that,after the flaughter of Mervan the one and twentieth Caliph fa
extirpated Root and Branch the Ommian Race, A. Heg, 132. and that with fuch a barbarity
as is not to be parallePd: For, inviting all the Family to receive their fealty, eighty of
them being affembled and fufpedlefs of harnl, upon a Signal which Abdal gave they were
all knockt down *, and contrary to Nature which abhors cruelty, caufed them to be laid
togg:her and a Carpet Ipread' over them, upon whole wretched Carcaffes he feafted,
infmting in the fad groans which many of them ( who were not quite dead ) made ^ and
caufing this Dirge to be fung, For the day of Huffan and his eleven Sons-, and nothing elfe;
So that his Jgnofce precor was a Motto very neceifary to be remembred. About this time
there were terrible Earth-quakes in AJiay which in one night overturn'd fix hundred Ci
ties and Villages.
To Mavi followed as Caliph ThezJd or Jezed', memorable for his vein of Poetry : He it
was that put the Alcoran into Ry thme. His riot and venery lb exafperated Mutar-Mavia-
ben-Abdella as at the-age of forty he made him away, having ruled but three years. Mh -
tar was as quickly dethroned by Abdal-ben-Jezad a Ben-Humian : Some are of opinion that
Ocen and his eleven Sons were flain by this Caliph,md not by Mavi. Marvan (after he had
fat nine months) difpoifelfes him, as he was by Abdalla again ^ but both by Ah en or Abdal-
melee were both of Life and Kingdom bereaved. Didacus dethroned and forced Melee
to fiiglit; Oyledore, Didacm, and Solyman by help of Jufiinian the Emperour flew Oyle-
dore: returns from Banilhment, exQulfes Solyman, and to the utmoft took revenge
of Mutar 's murtherers. The Chriftians were the worfe for this eftablilhment •, for Melee
forthwith forraged Syria, Armenia and Thrace, and in the fifteenth year of his Empire
died, ordaining ZJhyt ( called alfo V lit us and Evelyd-Miralmi?m ) fiicceffor in his ftead.
This Caliph died of grief for that the Armies he had fent into rebelled againft him.
fucceeded himhirn, Omar-ben-Abdemazed ; depofed by TmW Son to
the late Ebrahim marched off after him, a Prince fool-hardy and unfortunate.
Alter his death the Empire was divided 'twixt Gez,id and Vvalid •, who having fped fo