'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.' [‎59] (378/1024)

Book I. Travels in I n d i a.
fomething which was confiderable to Cha-Ett-Kan ; for could I have had my li
berty upon my arrival at Surat to have gone to him, I would never have feen
the King at Gehanabad^ about which I had a very great quarrel with the Go-
vernour of Surat. For when I came to vifit him, he told me prefently, that
the cafe was alter’d from what it had been fince my laft being there, for that
the King was refolvM to have the firll view of all Curioikies imported into
his Kingdom. I was above four Months contending in vain with the Gover-
nour; but nothing wopld ferve ^ I muft go to the King, and for fear I fhould
take another Road, he fent fifteen Horfemen along with me as far as Sha-
■ laour. • 'v
When I went for Bengala, thefe Overfeers of the Jewels, out of meer fj)ite,
and, it may be, fet on by Giafar-Kan i to be reveng’d of me for denying to let
him have my Jewel, writ to Cha-Efl-Kan^ that I intended to ihew him certain
Jewels, among the reft a very fair Pearl, which I had fold to Giafer-Kan • but
that he had given it me again, becaufe he underflood that I would have made him
pay for it, ten thoufand Roupies more than it was worth. They wrote alfo the
particular proportion of all the other Stones which Icarry’d. And upon this falfe
and malicious advice it was, that Cha-Efl-Kan^ who receiv’d not this informa
tion till he had deliver’d me my Bill of Exchange, would abate me for my whole
parcel, twenty thoufand Roupies, which he reduc’d at length to ten thoufand ;
and well 1 had it too.
Since I told you before, what a Prefent I gave to Cha-Eft-Kam j I think
it not amifs to tell you, what I gave the King, to Nahab Giafer-Kan, to the
Eunuch of the Grand Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. , AurengsLeb'% Sifter, the Great Treafiirer, and the
Porters of the Treafury. For you mufl take notice, that whoever he be, that
craves Audience of the King, they ask him in the firfl place, where the Pre
fent is which he intends for the King ; and examine whether it be fitting to
prefent to his Majefly. For no man mufl come into his prefence empty handed,
though it be an honour dearly purchas’d. Coming then to Gehanabad, I went
to make my obeifance to the King} and this is the Prefent which I made
him.
In the firfl place, a Buckler of Brafs highly embofs’d, and very richly guilt,
the coil of the Guilding alone amounting to two hundred Ducats of Gold, or
eighteen hundred Livres} the value of the whole piece coming to four thou
fand three hundred feventy eight Livres. In the middle thereof was the ilory
oiCunim, who threw himfelf and his Horfe into the Barathrum, when the
Earth gap’d, near Rome. Round the outermoft Circle of the Buckler,"was re-
prefented the liege of Rochel. It was wrought by one of the befl Workmen
in France, by the order of the Cardinal Richlieu. All the grea| Lords that were*
about Aureng^eb at that time, were charm’d at the beauty of the Workman-
fhip, and told him, he could not do better, than to put it upon the great Ele
phant, which carry’d the Standard before his Maiefly when he march’d into the
Field.
I prefented him alfo with a Battle-Axe of Chryflal of the Rock^thefides where
of were fet with Rubies and Emraulds, enchas’d in Gold in the body of the Chry-
ftal, which coil three thoufand one hundred and nineteen Livres.
Moreover, I prefented him with a Saddle after the Turky fafhion, embroider’d
with little Rubies, Pearls, and Diamonds, which cofl two thoufand eight hundred
and ninety-two Livres. 1 v ' . ^
I prefented him alfo with another Saddle and Foot-cloath, embroider’d with
Gold and Silver, to the value of one thoufand feven hundred and thirty Livres.
The whole Prefent amounting to twelve thoufand one hundred and nineteen
, Livres.
The Prefent which I made to Giafar-Kan, the Great Moguls Unkle, was a Ta
ble, with other nineteen pieces to make a Cabinet, all natural Stones,of divers co
lours, reprefenting the fhapes of feveral Birds and Flowers. The work was made
at Florence, and cofl two thoufand one hundred and fifty Livres.
A perfedRuby Ring, which cofl one thoufand and three hundred Livres.
To the great Treafurer, I prefented a Watch in a Gold Cafe, fet with fmall
Ltnraulds, at feven hundred and twenty Li vres.
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