'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.' [‎96] (135/1024)

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The Persian Travels.
Book IJ)
carryU along with me, one that was well vers’d in that iort of Commodity. ^
was a Norman Gentleman nam’d de ReviVe then at Smyrna, who would n eedsacco tI1
pany my Fador, fo that they went both together in a Veil'd thatcarry’d the F re J
Ambaffador and his Lady to Conjlantinople. 1 his Gentleman had two or three thoy.
{and Ducats in his Purfe, wanting neither wit nor courage, be! ides a good prefer.
but perhaps he was more hafty in his proceedings than the referv’dnefs of thatCou n .’
try requir’d. He had left the Service of the Mufcovdes, thinking to find an employ,
ment in the Service of the Venetians at Candy » but failing in his expectations, he re.
(plv’d to travel into Verfia. While he was at Confiantinople, the Jem, wholay h 0 y
upon all opportunities of gain, foon found out my f a£tor i and befides the Pearls
which he defired to fee, they fhew’d him feveral other rich Stones to try whether
they could draw him in j Cor he had refus’d the Pearls becaufe they held them at too
high a Rate. The Norman Gentleman fdl into their acquaintance i and picking out
the richeft, told him, that being refolv’d for the Indies, he had a mind to W
out four thoufand Ducats in Pearls/ He |dded alfo, that he would pay him half in
Money, half in Goods, and at the fame time Ihew’d the Jew two thoufand D mS)
which the yen? had already devour’d with his eyes. Some four days after, the Jm
brought the Gentleman four fair Pearles with fome Emrauldsj and you may befme
they eafily agreed upon the price, in regard the Gentleman had a defign to put a
trick upon the Jew* Thereupon he fhews his Ducats x (econd time, which they®,
who thought he had a Cully, prefently told out as his own. After that the Jm
defiring to fee the Goods, which made up the other part of the payment, the Gen-
tleman without any more ado told him, that all the Merchandize which he had to-
pay him, was a good ftrong Quartan Ague which had held him a long time, and
indeed fuch a one, that he could not poflibly meet with a better, but that he would
not over-rate it, in regard he ask’d but two thoufand Ducats for it. The Jew who
was rich and in great credit at Court, was fo incens’d at his raillery, that he had
like to have made a wicked dir about it. For as he had heard him fay, that the
Gentleman was going into the Indies and Perfia, he might have ealily caus’d him to
have been apprehended for a Spy. But in regard the Jem can do nothing in point
of Trade without the affiftance of the French Merchants, he adviz’d with fotne
of them, who perfwaded him that it was an Ad of folly, which it better became
him to excufe, and defil’d him to take his Goods again, and put up the bufmefsi
which with much ado they perfwaded him to condefcend to. The Gentleman fear
ing left the Jews underhand (hould do him a private mifehief, ftole away with
what fpeed he could, and return’d to Smyrna.
De Keville being thus return’d to Smyrna, put himfelfinto an Almadier, which is a
fmall Veffel of War, that generally touches at Cbw and Rhodes, being bound for
Cyprus, from whence there is always fome convenience or other to get to Aim-
dretta. From thence he went to Aleppo* and while he flay’d there he met with two
French-mcn, the one whofe name was Neret, the other Hautin, who was an Ac*
comptant. They had four Wooden Chefts full of falfe Stones ready fet, by which
they flatter’d themfelves to be great gainers in Perfia. They went from Marfeih to
Seyde, from Seyde to Damas, hearing that there was an opportunity to Travel to
Bagdat with the Topigi-Bafhi. This Iopigi-Ba(hi or chief of the Engineers, was he
that affifted Amurath in the taking of Bagdat * in recompence whereof the Grantl
Signor gave him a Timar, or Lordfhtpin Damas worth four thoufand Crowns a
year. Now it was his cuftom every year to vifit Bagdat, and to flay there during the
Seafon, that there was any probability of the King of Perfia % belieging it \ which
Seafbn not lafting above three or four Months, when that was over, he return’d to
Damas. He ufually had about thirty Horfe with him, with which he never made
it above eighteen or twenty days, taking the (horteli cut diijetftly through the De*
fert, where the Arabs are commanded to bring him Vi&uals upon the Road. And
he is willing at any time when be has this opportunity, fo condu6t the Franks that
defire it that way, in regard they are never ungrateful to him for it. Thefe two
therefore having defir’d that they might be taken into his Company, thf
Topigi-Bajhi readily confented * provided they could flay ’till he went, wmc
would not be’till two or three Months j with which anfwer they were well fitish •
But the two Franks had not flay’d at Damas above feven or eight days but they k
acquainted with a Spaht* a Kenegado of Marfeilles y who proffer’d to carry them