'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.' [‎182] (225/1024)

KoUine-pin, and bak’d upon Plates t ri .nn 4 Copper. This Br«d i s W v u
but onfy ferves for a Table-Cloth to prefexve what falls from the Diflics, any
every man leaves particularly upon his own Plate,wmcn is all wup d up m iht ^
ther and aiv’n to the poor. Next to that they fet upon one end.of the ifoit
of moft excellent Bread two foot long and one broad, then which neve, Wasb{t|t[
eat’n in the World. By and by follow’d Boyl d and R 02 ft fielh and filh, wid, tWo
Chefts of Limons of Nhzandran, and Granates from SchirM,
After we had made a large Breakfait, the King was pleas’d to put meuponadif.
courfe of my Travels into the Indies, and ask d me what Pisnas i lud hadaccefsto
and how many I knew by their faces? Then caufing a Satchel to be brought him
be open’d it himfelf, and (bew’d me fevenjl portraitures in Miniature. Prcfe^’
knew Sha-Gehan, Aurtnge-Zebe, and three of his Sonsthe King of GohrJ, JI: j
Vifabour, Sba- Eft-Kan ,and two R*/Tz.Among the rell he (hew d me a PerfunUift
Pidture and gave it me , to the end, faidhe, that your Ftok/i Ladies may fa bow
our Pcr/ww Ladies are clad. After that he (hew d me the Pictures of two Ventim,
CurtifansJ the one a Widow, and the other a Virgin, with a Parrot upon h§r
hand clad after the French mode. Upon which the King putting the queltionjo
me which Hik’d heft ? I reply’d that (he pleas’d me bed who had the Parrot uponher
fid. And why not the other, faid the King? Becaufe, anfwa d I, (he looks like one:
that had renounc’d the world. T hereupon the King falling into a laughter, ani
turning toward Father Raphael ■> Patri, Patri, faid he, h it poffible that [mb a Laly
as this Jbould have renounc'd the IVor-ld ? This led us into a difcouife ofbeauig
wherein when the King demanded my opinion, I told him that Womens beautj
depended very much upon theGudom of the Country j for that \u Japan Women
with broad faces were mod in requed s in China fmall feet were admir in the libs
of Borneo and lichen. Women the blacker tneir Teeth were, the more they were
belov’d 5 that in the Idand of Macafer, to make their Women lovely, they poll
out four of their Teeth when they are young, to put in four of Gold in their
room * as 1 have feen a Captain of Java, who pull’d out four of his fore Teeth,;,
and fet four Diamonds in their place. In (hort, I told his Majedy that in his own
Dominions full Eye-brows which meet together were highly edeem’d y whereas the
Women of France pull them up by the Roots. But which, faid t he King, dofiihou
like bed, the blacker the fair ? Sir, continu’d I, were I to buy Womenas(
purchafe Diamonds, Pearls, and Bread, I would always choofe the whited. With
that the King fell alaughing, and order’d me a brimmer in his own Cup, which
was a great Honour indeed. From hence we fell into a more ferious difcourfecon-
cerning the prefent Stato of Europe, fpeakingwery low, and the red of the Com
pany retiring all the while out of hearing. Only I ob(erv’d that there was one Lord
middle ag’d, and clad afterthe Georgian vnode, who dood within five or hx paces
behind the King, and that many times as the King drank, he only we^ his Lips,
and gave the red to that Lord to drink, which v v hen he had done, he retii’d again
to his place. Upon inquiry I found he was the King’s Uncle by the Mothers
fide.
While we were talking of ferious things the Curtifans were bid to retire out ot
the Hall, which they did, into a Gallery that look’d upon a Garden, where they
fate, where immediately a Sofra was laid before them cover’d with Fruits and Sweet
meats, and one of their Society continually powr’d out the Wine which they drank
round without intermiftion: One would have thought they (hould have beenfuddl Qi
yet when theyqame in again, no man could perceive they had been drinking.
After they had Danc’d a while, they were order’d to retire again, and the King
fentfor his Mulick, which was both Vocal and Infirumental i his Inhrumental
Mufick confided of a kind of a Lute, a Guittar, a Spinet, and two or three Bale
Flutes. He had alfo in the Gallery where the Curtifans were, a large Ebony Cabi-
]net eight foot high, adored w(th feveral Silver figures, which prov’d to bean
Organ that went alone.lt was part of the prefent which the Mufcovite Ambafladors
made the King, which he order’d to be fet a going, that we might hear^ it as we
; fate. Nofooner had the Organ ftop’d, but the Curtefans were call’d in again,
S and the King caus’d the Gold Ladle to go round, commanding that no manlnoii
jileavea drop. When every man had done, the King wa^ pleas’d to ask me w ic
of the Curtifan’s I thought to be haudfomeft ? Thereupon I rofc up, and talunga