'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.' [‎100] (139/1024)

The Persian Travels. , Book ill
to force all Ships that were hound into Italy to pay certain tuflcms, vj/hich r
of Marfeilles would not pay when they came into the Port of Toulon. Thereun^
forefeeing that there would be mifchief done, I .called for my littleChefls that cc
tain’d my Goods of greateft value, carrying feme part my ielf, and giving?
reft to one of my moft trufty Servants, thmling to have skipt into a Genoa B a l
that lay hard by us, but inftead of leapinga-board, I fell into the Sea:whereL
re?ifon of the Tumult I had perifti’d without relief, had I not by*good for tune hicikoil
ofa Cable and redeem’d my felf. At what time one of my Servants, luckily coming to
my aid, with much ado drew me up fafe again. s
Having efcap’d this danger, 1 got a*ftioar with fuch of my Servants as I had
about me, and meeting with a Bark of Frontignan that carry’d Languedocl^W]^ tQ
the Coaft ofI hir’d him lot Ligorn', and letting Sail, we hr ft touch’d P4
■franca^ and afterwards at Monaco.
At Monaco 1 went a-ftioar, and went to wait upon Madam the Princefs, who
Chew’d me the Rarities in the Caftkr, among the reft, fevera! pieces ofextraordinaiy
Painting, feveral pieces of Clock- work and Gbldfmiths- work. But among all hr
Curiofities (he Qiew’d me two pieces ol Ciyftal, about the bignefs of two Fills each
in one of which there was above a Glafs full of W^.to*, in the other a good quan
tity of Mofs *, which were clos’d in by Nature when the Cryftal firft con
geal’d.
Monaco \s a Caftle fituated upon a fteep Rock, advancing out into the Sea j which
advantage, together with others which it receives from Art and Nature, renders
it one of the moft confiderable Forts in Italy.
The next day finding the Fro«//g>M«-Veirel to be deep-laden, and that it made little
Way, I took a Faluke, arid kept along by the Shoar, which was moft pleafantly
adorn’d with beautiful Villages and Houfes, as far as Savona *, wl ejie Lchang’d try
Faluke, to compleat the reft of the way which 1 had to Genoa. Half the way we
did very well, but the Wind rifirtg, we were forc’d to put into a great Town,
where we landed^ and from thence, having but nine Miles, I got in good time by
Horfe to Genoa* There can be no Profpedf certainly more pleafing than that nine
Miles riding. For on the one fide you fee nothing but a continu’d Row of magni-
ficent Buldings and lovely Gardens * on the other a calm Shoar, upon which the
Waves feem not to beat, but lovingly to kifs.
Arriving at Genoa> I met with the reft of my Servants*, and at the end of two
days lembarqu’d For Ligorn^ where we arriv’d in four and twenty hours.
From Ligorn I went to the Court of Florence, to wait upon the Grand Duke. By
whom I had the honour to be admitted into hfs Chamber, where I found nobody
attending but one Mute, who had a long time fei v’d his Highnefs: and I obferv’d
that they underftood one another by Signs, as perfedfl as if the Mute had had
his Speech and Hearing. So that when ever the Duke fent him into his Clofetfor
any Papers or other thing whatfbever, he never fail’d to bring the right.
After I had tak’n my leave of the Duke, he fent me a noble Prefent of Wine
and Fruits ^ but that which I valu’d more than all the reft, was a Cafe of Medicaments
and Counter-poyfons, in the compefition whereof the Italians are very exqiiilrte.
And yet they did me no fervice *, for when I came into the hot Countries their
fermentation was fb ftrong, that all the Oyls and Treacles broke their feveral Boxes,
that I could fave nothing of that precious Prefent.
The next day, being thetwenty-fixth of March 166^ I embarqu’d with all my
Servants in a Dutch Veflel call’d Ihe JufHce.
The twenty-feventh we ftaid in the Road, expe&irg the reft of the Fleet, con.
fifting of eleven Ships, two Men of War, and nine Merchant-men i four of which
were bound for Smyrna, thexe. lot Ancona, and two for Venice. Abbut feven that
evening we fet Sail, and all that night the Wind was favourable, but blew hard and
veer’d often } which was the reafon that two of our Fleet feparated from us, fleering
between the Ifle olElhe and CorficayvhWt we kept on between the I fie cfElha md'My
The twenty-eighth by eight in the Morning we found our felves between Forto
Ferraro and Timhino, and it being fair Weather, we had a pleafant profpeft of
thofe two places* From thence we fleer’d between two Hands, the ©ne call’d
majola, the other being namelefs. About fix hours after we faw Portolongone,
afterwards at a diftance we defay’d Monte-Chrifto. An hour after - Noon we dif-
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