'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.' [‎12] (327/1024)

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of the Indians defcended : and therefore for his fatisfa&ion, I will teiThim"
few words. Her Father, a Perjianby Nation, a man naturally Ambitious and a
in his own Country was no more than a bare Captain of Horfe, without W10
hopes of riling to any higher preferment, travelPd" into the Indies, to f crv
Great Mogul, who was then Gehan-guir, with an intention of railing his f
tune in a Itrange Country. Gehan-guir had then many Enemies, the Kin
G ok on da and Ftfafour being in Rebellion againft him, and feverai Raj As h-P 1 °'
tak^n their part. So foon as he came to kifs the Kings Hands, the KinaP^f
a liking to him, and gave him immediately the Command of five him (h
Horfe. And becaufe he was very well skilfd in Aftrology, ("which i s a Sci ^
to which the Afimchj are very much acldi&edj the King eileem’d himPP
more, and in a fhort time made him General of his Army. But aftervvad
forgetting his duty, and the benefits he had received, he joynM with Suh
Kofrou, Gehan-guirh eldeft Son ^ and having gain’d a great part of the ArmT
they confpir’d together to depofe the King, and fet up his Son in his Head
There was at that time in the Court, an Eunuch of great wit, who did me)
mifehief to the Army in his Clofet, than he could have done in the FieH
This Eunuchy fo foon as intelligence was brought of the Rebellion told the
King, that if his Majefty pleas’d, he would deliver Kofrou and the Per Ran Ge
neral into his hands in a Ihort time, without fo much as finking one 7
or loling one man. He was as good as his word in part, for he fo orderM
his bulinefs, by his politick contrivances, that the General was brought to the
King, who would not prefently put him to death. Sultan Kofrou efcapd that
bout, and continu’d the War many years againft his Father, who at length took
him in Fight, and caus'd his eyes to be pull’d out. The King detaining the
General in cuftody, his Wife and his Daughter found a way to fave his life as
you fhall hear. The Daughter of the Perfian General, who was his only
Child , was about fourteen years of Age, the moft accomplifh’d Beauty at
that time in all the Kingdom , Ihe was molt rarely educated, and could both
write and read the Arabian, Perfian, and Indian Languages. The Mother and
the Daughter went every day to Court, to hear what would become of the
General ^ and underftanding at length, that the King intended either to put him
to death , or to ban fh him, they came to the Haram, and calling themfelves
at his Majefties feet, they humbly begg’d pardon, the one for her Husband,
the other for her Father y Which they eafily obtain’d * the King being furpriz’d
at the Beauty of the Virgin, to whom he afterwards furrendred his Affections.
All the Court was altonilh’d afterwards, how the General and his Wife could
keep, fo private, a Daughter that was fo incomparably fair, that it fhould not
come to the Kings knowledge. At length he lov’d her fo tenderly, that not
being able to deny her the liberty of Reigning one whole day in his place he
gave her leave tolhare with him afterwards in the Government. And fhe it was
that gave motion to all the moll important Affairs of State ; the King excufing
himfelf to the Grandee’s of his Court, who wonder’d why he let the Queen bear
fo great'a fway, by telling them that Ihe was fit for the Government, and that it
Was time for him to take his eafe.
i,and2. is as ail the reft are, the backlide of the Twelve Signs. Fig. r. is
the backlide of the Ram, and Fig, 2. of Cancer, Both of them lignifie the fame
thing 5 it being the Name of the King,Queen, and City where they wereftamp’d.
Thefe two were coin’d at Amadabat,
The Gold, SUtter, and Copper Money which the Portugals coin in
the Eaft Indies.
Tj He Gold which Portugals Coin in Goa is better than our Loitijfes of Gold,
J. and weighs one grain more than our half Piftcl. At the time when I was in
thls P ie « was worth four Roujks, or fix Frank*. They hold it up at fo
high