'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.' [‎79] (398/1024)

Book I.
'Travels in India.
coher’d with green Cloath, fuch as is earn’d out of England. He told me I was
welcome, and after a Complement or two, he ask’d me what Religion I was off
I anfwer’d him, of the Proteftant Religion. He ask’d me then, if my Father and
Mother were of the fame Religion ^ and after I had fatisfi’d him that they were
fojHe told me again I was welcome,calling out at the fame time for fome other per-
fons to enter. 1 hereupon,the Hangings being held up,there came in ten or twelve
perfons out of another roorn hard-by. The firft of the Train were two siuftin-
Friars, follow’d by two Dominicans, two barefoot-Carmelites, and fome other of
the Clergy j whom the Inquifitor told who I was, and ahur’d them I had brought
no prohibited Books} for indeed, knowing their orders, I had lift my Bible at
Minor da. We difeours’d about two hours of feveral things, but particularly of
my Travels *, the whole Company teftifying their deiire to hear me make fome
repetitions. Three days after the Inquiftor fent for me to dine with him at a fair
Houfe, about half a league from the City, which belongs to the Bare-foot
Carmelites. It is one of the lovelieft Stru&ures in all the Indies j and I will tell you
in fliort how the Carmelites came by it. There was a Gentleman in G^whofe
Father and Grandfather had got great Eftates by Merchandizing; and he it was
that had built this Houfe,which might well have pall fora moll noble Palace.He
had no mind to Marry, but being altogether addicted to his devotions, he very
much frequented the Friars, to whom he Ihew’d himfelf fo affedionate,
that he made his Will, wherein he gave them all his Eftate,provided they would
bury him on the right-lide of the High-Altar where he intended a fumptuous
Monument. Now according to the common report, this Gentleman was a Leaper,
which fome jealous perfons endeavour’d to make the World believe,feeing he had
given away all his Eltatc to the jduftin-Vtidxs. Thereupon they told him that
the ground on the right-hand of the High-Alter was a place only fit for a Ficc*
Roy \ and that a leaprous perlbn was not to be laid there : which was the opinion
of the generality of the people, and of a good part of the Auftin-Vxms them-
felves. Thereupon fome of the Fathers of the Covent coming to fpeak with the
Gentleman, oh purpofe to perfwade him to choofe fome other place in the Church,
hewasfo offended at the propofal, that he never went more to the ^f?i>*-Friars,
but always went to perform his devotions among the Carmelites, who receiv’d
him with open arms, and accepted the conditions which the other had refus’d.
Nor did he live long after he had interefled himfelf with that Order; fo that the
Carmelites having magnificently burfd him, enjoy’d all his Eftate, with this fame
Houfe, where we were fplendidly entertain’d with Mulick all the time of Din
ner.
I ftaid at Goa from the twenty-hrft of January till the eleventh of March, de
parting thence that very day in the evening, after I had taken leave of the Eicc-
Roy. i begg’d leave alfo of the Eice-Roy for a Frcw/7-Gentlemen, whofe name
was Be Hoy, to go along with me .• which was granted me ; but through the impru
dence of that Gentleman,who did not tell me the reafon of his coming to Co*,he
had like to have been taken from me again,and it was an even-lay,that we had not
been both earn’d to the Inquilition. This Gentleman had left the place of his
Nativity to travel over Holland^ where having run hirafelf in debt, and finding no
perfon that would lend him any Money,he refolv’d to go for India. Thereupon
he lifted himfelf as a private Soulditr upon the accompt of the Holland-Com-
pany ^ and came to Batavia at the fame time that the Hollanders made War again!!:
tne Portnauez.es in Ceylan. Being arriv’d,they fent him away among the recruits
which were fent into that Iflandj and the Hclland-Gwetdl feeing fuch a re-
intorcement of flout men commanded by a -Captain, whofe name was
t. Am ant, a perfon of great courage and experience} he refolv’d to befiege Ne~
a confiderable Fort in the Ifland of They made two aflaults
^ , erein t l le Fremh-mzxi behav’d themfelves valiantly, efpecially St. Almam, and
to b C€ W ^° were woun ^ e ^* The General of the feeing them
e two fu C h me n °f courage, made a promife that if Negomhe were taken,
kenrh' em tW0 - ^ lou ^ he Governor. The place was taken, and the General
p ins word with St. Amant : but the News being carri’d to Batavia, a young
to H r man °^ki n to the General, and but newly arriv’d out of Holland, obtain’d
-e vovernour of Negomhe, to the prejudice of St« Amant, and came with an
i order