'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.' [‎195] (228/1024)

Chap. I- of Monneur Tavernier.
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The Genealogy of the Kings of Perlia, of the lafl Race. *
A Fter that Tamerlane had extended his Conquefts into Jfia, and de-
feated the Army of Bajazet, whom he took.Prifoner, together with
his Wife, he return’d into Perfia, where at that time liv’d a Cheik^
whofe name was Aidar, a Perfon in high reputation for his Koli-
nefs, He was a Perfon of great wit, and the firft in the dignities of the Law,
which gain’d him great authority and belief among the People. He gave great
honour to Tamerlane, and {hew’d Eminent kindnefles to all the Officers of his Ar-
my ^ in recompenfe whereof, Tamerlane^ who was a generous Prince, and full
of gratitude, made a Prefent to the Che'\ of a great number of Captives,
which he brought along with him out of Twr^v. The Cheik planted one part
of thefe Slaves about Ardevile, and feated the 6ther near his own refidence.
Now in regard he affum’d to himfelf to be defeended in a diredi line from Maho
met, he cover’d his head after another manner then all the reft of the Perfianf,
wearing a kind of flat Bonnet, growing broader and Broader to the top, and fo
pleighted, as to make twelve pleights of a Ruff, in honour of the twelve Pro
phets. In the middle, a kind of a Pyramid about a fingers length feem’d to rife
out of the Bonnet, but was indeed fow’d to it. Such a Bonnet as this the Che\
appointed all the Slaves to wear that Tamerlane had giv’n him, and this is that
which at this day diftinguifhes their Succeffors from the other Perfians. And it
is the cuftom, where or Governours of Provinces refide, that all the Sophie*
both in the City and the neighbouring parts, meet in the Piazza every Friday
in the afternoon, where they pray to God for the health of the King and
the Kan, and for the profperity of the Kingdom '■> after which the Kan fends
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