'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.' [‎39] (358/1024)

Book I. travels in India
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Sould not know whether it were fifh or no that Ihe eat, fhe refolv’d to try his
receit, and went the next night to lie with her Husband, according to the in-
ftru&ion which fne had received from the Servant. Some time after, the woman
perceiving that Ihe was big, her Husband happen’d to die, and the kindred of the
deceafed would have his Eftate. The Widow oppofed them, and told them that
it behov’d them to flay, till they faw whether the Child Ihe went withal, would
live or no. Her kindred were furpriz’d to hear fuch news that they fo little ex
pected, and tax’d her for one that either ly’d or jelled with them } knowing that
the woman had liv’d fifteen or fixteen years with her Husband, yet never had
been with Child. Seeing therefore that her kindred Hill tormented her, Ihe went
and threw her felf at the Govern our’s feet, to whom Ihe related all that had pall*
who thereupon order’d that the kindred Ihould flay till the woman was deliver’d!
Some days after Ihe had lain-in, the kindred of the deceas’d Merchant, who
were Perfons of Credit, and gap’d after fo fair an inheritance, affirm’d that the
child was not Legitimate, and that Ihe had it not by her Husband. The Gover-
noor, to underltand the truth of the matter, calls for the Phyficians} who con
cluded, that the Infant Ihould be carried to the Bath^ faying, that if the Receit
which the Mother had made ufe of, were real, the fweatof the Child would
fmellofFifh} which was done accordingly, and the Experiment prov’d true.
Thereupon the Governour order’d that the Child Ihould have the Ellate , the
Merchant being fo proud to be his Father .* But the kindred, troubl’d that fuch a
fat Morfel had efcap’d their mouths, appeal’d to the King. Upon their relation of
the llory, the King wrote to the Governour to fend him the Mother and the In
fant, to the end the Experiment might be made in his prefence: which having
the fame fuccefs as before, the kindred furceas’d their claim, and the Ellate re
main’d to the Mother and the Infant.
I remember alfo another pleafant Story which was related tome at Amadabat %
where I have been ten or twelve times. A Merchant with whom I often dealt,
and who was very well belov’d by Cha-Eft-Kan, Governour of the Province, and
the King’s Uncle, had the reputation never to have told a lye. Cha-Eft-Kan y
after the three years of his Government were expir’d, according to thecullomof
the Great Moguls and that Aureng-z,eb, the King’s Son was come into his place,
retir’d to Agra, where the Court then was. One day, difcourfing with the King j
he told him, that he had feeit many rare things in the Government, with which
his Majelty had honour’d him, but that one thing above all the reft had aftoniffi’d
him, to fiave met with a Rich Merchant that had never told a lye, and yet he
was above threefcore and ten years of age. The King furpriz’d at a thing fo ex
traordinary,fig nified to Cha-Eft-Kan, his defire to fee the perfon, and commanded
him to fend for him to Agra, which he did. The Old-Man was very much
troubl’d, as well in regard of the length of the way, it being a journey of 25 or
30 days, as for that he was to make a Prefent to the King. In ffiort, he provided
one, elleeni’d at fourty-thoufmd Roupies, to. carry Bale in, enchas’d with Dia
monds, Rubies, and Emraulds. When he had made his obeyfance to the King,
and given him his Prefent, the King ask’d him only what was his name, to whom
hereplyed, that he was call’d the man that had never told a lye. Then the King
ask’d him who was his Father? Sir, faid he, I cannot tell ^ hisMajefty fatisfi’d
with an anfwer, ftoptthere, and unwilling to trouble him any farther, comman
ded an Elephant to be given him, which is a very great Honour, and ten thou-
fand Roupies to bear his charges home.
Banians have a great Veneration for Apes, and there are fome which they
breed up in their Pagods to worfhip. There are three or four Houfes in Amad-
<doat which they make ufe of for Hofpitals for Covyes, Oxen, Apes, and other '
fick or maim’d Bealls 3 and they carry all they can find thither to preferve them.
This is alfo very remarkable, that every Taefday and Friday, all the Apes in the
places adjoyning to Amadabat, of their own accord come to the City, and get
upon the tops of their Houfes, where they lye, during the exceffive heats. And
therefore upon thofe days the People never fail to fet teady in their Terral-
f\^ Ce ’ MlUet ’ S u S ar -Ganes in their feafons, and other fuch-like things. For
u the Apes did. not find their provifion when they came, they would break the
des where-with the reft of the Houfe is cover’d, and do a great deal of mif-
chiefi