'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.' [‎216] (249/1024)

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^^kTUead againlt him. Thcle two haughty fpiiits would uw
to another '• and both equally Prove to poffeis the Kings favour, to have thedtf.
pofal of Affairs. Mir-lcbekar-Bajbi, who had brought Mahimt Beg imo v Fa!
vour, being the elder pretended a refpetS' due to his years, and Mahcmt Beg p Ie .
tended more due from him by reafon of his placf. During this contefi ran a xe .
port of a rebellioniipon Georgia hde. Whereupon the Atbemadcukt per (waded
the King to fend lately made KouUr Agafi cr General cf the
Slaves toward Georgia, that fo he might remove his Rival firm Court. The Fa
vourite fe*s forward with a flying Camp, but not finding any Enemy that oppos’d
him, wrote back to the King that he faw, no appearance ofan Enemy, and that
therefore it was a needlefs thing to tire the Souldiers in a Country where there
wasno face of War, and begg’d his Majefties leave to return. The Memadonkt
on the other fide labour’d to hinder his return by preaching to the King the advan
tages of the Pay of thofe forces in thofe parts. v
In this interim the Vsbek Tartars had made inroads upon'the Frontiers of G-
ratfan, and had Pain feveral of people, who was governor of the Pro
vince. Mahomet Beg who was his Kinfman, gave the King to underhand that the
Kan ot Corajfan had behavM himfelf valiantly^ but conceal’d the defeat of the
Kan. On the other fide the Koular Agafi fent Letter upon Letter to the King,
but perceiving that none of them came to the Kings hands, he fent ioljpabanm
ofhis difereeteft and moP fxuPy fervsnts, who coming to Court intermix’d him
felf among the reP of the Lackeys. The dthewadoukt fpyirg an unknown face,and
being always miPruPful, demanded who he was ? To whom the Meftenger an-
fwer’d that he was a poor Souldier upon the frontiers of the Kingdom, whohe-
caufe he could not get his pay there was come to Court to fee if he could there
get any reccmpence for his fervice; upon which reply the Atbemadoulet took no
farther notice of him. Prefently after, the young man meeting the Meter told
him he had Letters of importance to deliver into the Kings own hard, cfwhichthe
Meter giving notice to the King, the meffenger was immediately call’d in. The
King having read the Letters which difeover’d to him what the Athmadonkt had
conceal’d from him touching the no neceffity of keeping forces upon the Frontiers
of Georgia^ and the lofs which the of Kcrdjfan fad receiv’d, tranfported with
choler againft his prime MiniPer, fent for him, and after he had moP bloodily revil’d
and reproach’d him, he was within a little of killing him with his own hands. But
the Nazar md feme other Lords there prefent took the boldnefs to reprefent
to the King the longfervices which Mahomet Beg had done the Kingdom, and that
fince his MajePy had rais’d him from the duff to the higheP honours of the King
dom, it would not be for his honour to deProy at one blow a perfon that he had
lov’d, and might Pill beufeful to him. This difeourfe fomewhat appeas’d the
King, fo that he only gave him in cuPcdy to the Nazar. ! Three days after the
King exil’d him to Korn, with all his Family, not permitting him to fhave himfelf go
to the Bath, or to come abroad. This Exilement laPed for feveral years. But my
Letters from Terfia in the year id.74. enform’d me that Sha-Solyman^ the prefent
King, has rePor’d him to his Primier Dignity, and that he Pill governs as Athma-
doukt^ the King finding no man more capable than himfelf. '