'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.' [‎112] (151/1024)

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"The PER.SIAN 2 ravels
before, we only took three or four handfuls of excellent)Dates, to Ihcw that wedjd
^^meen^MiniMached-raba is thcGuidetQtalierpecial cate fo to order H s
_ ^ WAU hv break ot day, tor fear nt
Between Anna ana macvw-rw* ^ — r r T . , \ i i , i c
Stages as tocome every morning to the Wells by break ot day, for rear of meeting
theV^x, that come to fetch Water there by that time the Sun is up, who ;
enough to be injurious to Travellers. t X7 . . ^ r u l n
At Macbed-raba I faw one of the moft beautiful Virgins that ever I beheld m
At Mdctrea-w. i**** v>in. u* «»>• * y- , , . --my
life For 1 had given a Fialier to an Arab to get me fome Bread, and going to f ec
whether it were bak’d, I found the Virgin putting it into the Oven who being
alone made me align to retire. There 1 alfofaw a Colt of that wonderful fhipe.th,,
the Baiba of Vamas had offer’d three thoufand Crowns ‘t-
Coming to talba, we did not go into the Town but lay without under the Walk
Only our Arab went in and brought us chopt Straw for our Camels. The Governo®
of the Town came along with him, and demanded twenty P.ajiers of every one, fa
certain Duties which he pretended payable to him. We knew there were but fo ffl
due, and refus’d to pay any more i but the Arab having a mind to put a trick upon
the Spaniard, gave me a wink, intimating to me that 1 (hould not trouble tn yft if :
Thereupon theGovernour incens’d goes back to the Town, and by and by returro
with an Iron Chain i and had certainly cany’d the Spaniard fetter d to the Fort bad
he not laid down the twenty Fiafien. For my part, I was difehargdfor ffiy fca
^Omwinlnewm^rihe firft Houfethat we came at bordering upon*
Defer! were the Houfes of the Arabs and Bedouins ; the fecond of which being fa
Habitation of a Friend of our Guide’s, I deliver’d my Horfeto the Guide to whoml
had fold it before at his own earned requed i for 1 was refolv d K> go a-foot to Atypt;
and therefore that I might favethe Cudomof a parcel of Turquoifes ‘hatl had
about me, Iput them in the Pouches which I carry d behind my Horfe, and thrw
the Pouches into a little Ched, as if they had been things of m confluence, and
defir’d the Man of the Houfe to keep them a day or two. The Arab told me, tte
were it all Gold it Qiould be fafey and indeed when I fent for them within a day#
two after, I found nothing miffing. r
When I came to Aleppo ,the Englifb Conful ask’d me what news from Iff*
I made anfwer, that he mud ot neceflity know better than I, in regard the E»#
Prefident there had fent away an Exprefs to him while I was there, and that he went
away with two Capuchins and an Arabian Guide. There upon the Conful nut
truding fomemifehief wasbefal’n them, requeded the Bajha to lend him iome offa
Soldiers y who readily granted him eight Men, part Arabians, put Bedomns. Thdt
the Conful order’d to difperfe themfelves upon feveral Roads in the Wildernefs,
fee if they could meet with any tidings upon the Way. In a (hort time tw
of them return’d with two little Pouches, in one ofwhich was the Packet of Lett®
They reportedalfo, that in a by-place between Taiba and Mached-raba they to
the Bodfes of four dead Men lying upon the Sand. One of them wteh was in Hack
Clothes, being hack’d and mangled in a mod miferable manner -, but theBodies of j
other three were entire, though run through inTeveral p'aces.Some time ate J
perfons themfelves that did the fad told both at DiarbeqmrmdDamas, how c®
to pafs. For certain Merchants of Varna, going to Viarkqmr, petceiv d tour Mai
early in the morning at certain Wells where they wereto dop, w er P
fent two of their Company before to know who they were. But e
having a little parcel of Diamonds about him, and behevmg them to be Ttaw^
inconfiderately let fly his Gun and kill’d one of them immediately upon h pla«-
the Merchants feeing one of their companions dead, fell all at once “P 0 " A
three, cut the Au(lin-Fikt to pieces, and flew the red i and fo without rifling
^Frorn^/^I went to Alexandretta, and there embarqu’d in a V ^' of j^
feints, with a favourable Wind,’till we came to make theCoad
We were becalm’d for two days. One morning by break of w , , • Vi .
Pickaroon, whereupon feeing we could not avoid being fetd
made ready. He made two or three (hot at us, which did us no
6 nly touch’d the Beak-head ot the Ship. Our Gunner made a (ho at ^
brought down his Top-gallant v afecond went through and througn t g ^
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