'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.' [‎57] (376/1024)

Book I. Travels in India.
great danger, by reafon of the high Winds that had blown for two days to*
gether.
The fifteenth, the Hollanders lent me a Pallekis, to go to Madefon-bafar^
Thistwas a great Town three Leagues from Cafen~bafar, where lay Cha-Eft-
X^’sNReceiver General, to whom 1 prefented my Bill of Exchange. He told
me it was very good, and that he would willingly have paid me, had he not
receiv’d order the night before, not to pay me, in cafe he had not paid me al
ready. He did not tell me the reafon that mov’d Cba-EB-Kan to aft in that
manner} fo that I went home to my Lodging infinitely furpriz’d at his pro
ceeding.
The fixteenth, I wrote to the Nahab, to know the reafon why he had for
bad his Receiver General to pay me.
The feventeenth in the evening, I took water for Oagucli^ in a Bark of four
teen Oars, which the Hollanders lent me } and that night and the next I lay
upon the River. *
The ninteenth toward evening, I pafs’d by a large Town call’d Nandi, far
ther than which the Sea does not flow. Here the Wind blew fo fiercely and
the water grew fo rough, that we were forc’d to ftay three or four hours
and ly by the fhore.
The twentieth, I arriv’d at Ouguelt, where I flay’d till the fecond oiMarch.
During which time the Hollanders bid me very welcome, and made it their
bufinefs to fhew me all the divertiferoents which the Country was capable to
afford. We went feveral times in Pleafure-Boats upon the River, and we had
a Banquet ofall the Delicacies that the Gardens of Europe could have afforded
us. Salads of all forts, Colewarts, Afparagus, Peafe, but our chiefeft Difh was
Beans } the Hollanders being very curious to have all forts of Pulfeand
Herbs in their Gardens, though they could never get Artichokes to grow in
that Country.
The fecond of March I left Ongueli, and the fifth arriv’d at Cafenbafan
1 he next day I went to Madefon-Barfakj, to know whether the Nahab had
fent any other orders to his Receiver. For I told you a little before, that I
wrote upon the place to Cha-Ett-Kan, to complain of his proceedings, and
to know the reafon why my Bill of Exchange was not paid. The Director
of the Holland Fadories writ a Letter alfo in my behalf, which I enclofed,
wherein he reprefented to the Nahab, that I was too well known to him, as
having been formerly with him at Amadabat, in the Army in Decan, and other
places, do deferve fuch hard ufuage. That he ought to confider, that I being
the only perfon that brought the chiefeft rarities of Europe to the Indies, it
was not the way to make me eager of returning any more, as he himfelf had
invited me to do, to fend me away in a difeontent. Befides, that the credit
or my report would difeourage others from coming to the Indies, fearing the
fame ufuage as I had receiv’d. Neither mine nor the Diredors Letter produc’d
that effed which we expeded. Nor was I much better fatisfi’d with the new
order which the Nahab fent to his Receiver j which was to pay me* abating
twenty thoufand Roupies of the fum which we had agreed upon; and if I
would not take the remainder, that I might come and fetch my goods again*
, 1 ^ s til dealing of the Nahab, proceeded from a feurvy trick that was play’d
by three Canary-birds at the Great Moguls Court. The ftory whereof
«thus in ihort.
Anrengzjeb, that now reigns, at the inftigation of two Perfians and a Banian Merchant of Indian extraction. ^
as brought up a cuftom very much to the difad vantage of Merchants, that
^ome out of Europe, and other parts, to fell Jewels at Court. For whether
fY co ^ Tl s into India either by Land or Sea, the Governour of the place
wnere they firft arrive, has order to fend them to the King, together with -
eir goods, whether they will or no. As the Governour of Surat dealt by
they^r 1665, fending me to Dehli, or Jehanabad, where the King
1 here were then attending upon his Majefty, two Perfians and a Banian Merchant of Indian extraction. ,
ton entrafted t0 view and examine all the Jewels which are to be fold
of u ^ ne Berfians is call’d Nahab-Akel~Kan, that is, the Prince
r e who keeps all the Kings Jewels. The name of the other is
^ 1 Mirut*