'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.' [‎200] (233/1024)

all forts of Silk Stuffs to the very Palace i and the King cf Vtrfia went him-
felf to meet him, as far as where the Stuffs were begun to be laid, though
Sha-Abbas was very yobng, yet he was refolv’d to (hew, that he look’d upon
himfelfas a potent King in the peaceable poffeffion of his own Dominions, and
that he went to meet a dethron’d Prince, that came to defire his Aid. For fo foon
as he perceiv’d the King of the Tartars, he made a (hew of fpurrirg on his
Horfe> and being come up to his Borfes head, he put his foot out ofthe Stur.
fup as if he intended to have alighted, but did not. The Tartarian Prince, as
old as he was, prefently leap’t to the ground from his Saddle to falute the
Terfm King, who return’d him fome flight Compliments about his having alighted i
at which time the Athmadouht and other Lords remounting him, the two Kings
rode together upon the Silks, the King of Perff* giving the left hand to the Tartar.
The King of ?«•/?<* very generoufly lent him a confiderable affiftance of 15000
Horfe, and 8000 Foot, and' fixty thoufand Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in Money. The Tartar
in Exchange gave him one of his Provinces bordering upon Perfia, which ycilded
him a very good Revenue, in regard the Inhabitants were all Shepherds, or Tw-
eomans, that breed an infinite number of Cattel, wherein the wealth of that Pro*
vince confifts.
While he reign’d, he had a Prefent made him from the Governour oi Scbiras,
of a wild Afs, whofe Skin was as red as Scarlet, having a Horn growing out
of his forehead about a foot long.
'Sha-Abbas reign’d about twenty-four years, and dy’d at Tebzon, of an in
flammation in his throat, which came by exceffive drinking- His body by his
own order was buri’d at Kour. So foon as he was dead, the Lords that were
about him, fent advice of his death to the Prince that now reigns, by the To-
pigi B?(ha, who is General of the Mufqueteers, and Mirza Bayad the Chief of
the Attrologers. So foon as they came to the door of the Haram, they de
fied tofpeak with the Mother and the Son* who believ’d them come upon
feme difmal defign. But they prefently confirm’d them to the contrary. For as
foon as the Prince came forth of the Haram, they fell at his feet, and faluied
him King, declaring the death of his Father. Whereupon the Prince imme
diately tore his Garment according to the cuftom. And indeed they have another
cuftom, that as foon as the new Prince comes after much entreaty out of the Haram,
he throws himfelf to the ground, at the door of the Haram, and then riling and
fitting upon his heels, one of the Lords that are fent, girds the Scimiter about his
wafie, faying thefe words, May it pleafe your Majefty to remember your Slave, that
had the Honour to gird you with this Scimiter, Which done, he goes and fets the
Trumpets a founding, aneLiheDrums beating, whereupon all the people in the
morning come running to the Gate of the Palace, crying out, Patjha Salamakk^,
I falute thee Emperour. Which is all the Ceremony us’d when any King of Per/w
afeends the Throne. For I never faw any Crown fet upon the head either of Sba-
Abbas otSba-Sefi. "Only in Perfia they gird on the Scimiter, as in Turkey they put
on the Bonnet of the Sopbis, which is very richly fet with Jewels, but has not the
lead refemblanceof aCrown. The fame Ceremony of girding on the Scimiter, is
us’d to the Mogul, the Kings oiVifapour and Golconda \ and they alfo put the Bon
net upon their heads, which is fet with the richeft Jewels in the poffeffion of thofe
great Monarchs.
Sha Seji the fecond, fome time after his coming to the Throne, fell dange-
roufly fick, not having ever enjoy’d a perfed health before. Now it is the cuftom
in thofe Countries, that upon fuch an occafion all the Lords of the Court, and
Governors of Provinces, give a fum of money, according to their willingnefs and
liberafity. This fum is ufually in Gold, which they put into a Bafon very richly
(et with precious Stones, and bear it three times over the King’s head, pro
nouncing thefe words, Patjha Bajhena Olfon, This money is facrificdfor the health
of the Kings head. If the King recover all that money is giv’n to the poor, to
which the King and his Haram add very liberally. But if the King dies, the
money is put into the Treafury, and the poor have nothing. The twentieth of
Auguft 1667, was the critical day of his diftemper, and every one thought he
would have dy’d. Ifpon which all the Grandees of the Court feeing him in that
condition, went to the Mofquee call’d Babaron, which is without the City, to
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