'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.' [‎84] (403/1024)

Travels in I n d i a. P arE |j
Fowl that feem’d to refcmble large Geefe, but fo fat, that they had very
lean. The Feathers of thofe Birds were very lovely, and thole upon the Belkv
proper for Beds One ofthe Fcrtuguefes Mariners fold me a large Gulhips Fufk
with thofe Feathers, and related to me what had happen’d to them in that
Bay, where they ftay’d feven and twenty days. They pve thofe Cajres om
thing or other every foot, as Knives,► Axes, falfe Coral, and falfe p ear i s ou g
of hopes to have difcoverdfome Trade, and particularly whether : they ’ had
any Gold •, for they obferv’d that fome of them wofe pieces of Gold in their
Ears; fome beaten thin upon one fide, and others like the Nails of a Lock
They brought two ofthe people to Goa , and I fa w one of them that wore
feveral of thofe pieces of Gold in feveral parts of each Ear. The Mariner
told me, that there were fome of their women that wore of thofe pieces of
Gold under their Chins, and in their Nohrils. Eight or nine days after the
Portugal* arriv’d in that Bay, tl ofe Cafres brought them little pieces of Am-
bergreefe, fome Gold, but Very little; fome Elepfiants teeth, but very fmall;
fome Oft riches, and other Birds, fome Venifbn ; but for Fiflt there was aban
donee. The Portugal* endeavour’d-all they could by ligns to know where they
found the Ambergreefe, for it was very good. The Vice-Roy Ihew’d me a
a piece that weigh’d not above half an Ounce, but he allur’d me withall that
he had never feen fo good. They alfo labour’d to difeover where they had
the Gold. After the Elephants teeth they made no great enquiry feeing a great
number of Elephants that came to drink at a River that threw it felt into the
Bay. At length after they had Ray’d three weeks,the Portugal* finding it impoffibk
for them to difeover any thing more, becaufe they wnderftood not one ano
ther, refolv’d to fet fail with the firft: wind. And becaufe they had always
fome of thefe Cafres aboard in regard they were very liberal of their Tobacco,
Bisket, and ftrong Water, they thought good to bring two of them along in
the Velfel ; in hopes that they might learn the Portuguefe Language, or that
there might fome Child be found out that might underftand what they fakL
The Mariners told me,that when they fet fail,after the Cafresfow that they they
had carri’d two of their people away, who perhaps were no inconliderabk
perfons, they tore their Hair, ftruck their Breafts; as if they had been frantkk,
and fet up a moft horrible yelling and howling. When they were brought to Goa y
they could never be brougut to learn any thing of the Portugal Language. So that
they could gc t out of them nothing of that further difeovery at wlikh they
aim’d, of a Country from whence they only brought away two pound of Gold,
three pound of Ambergreefe, and thirty-five or forty Elephants teeth. One of
the Cafres liv’d but fix months, the oth er fifteen ; but both languilh’d and pin'd
to death for grief to be fo trapann’d.
From 1 pafs’d to Mingrela, where there fell out an accident not to be
forgotten. An Idolater dying, and the Fire being ready prepar’d for the burn'
ing of the Body, his Wife who had no Children, by the permifiion of the
Governour, came to the Fire, and flood among the Priells and her Kindred,
to be burnt with the Body of her deceas’d Husband. As they were taking
three turns, according to cuflom, about the place where the Fire was kindl’d,
there fell of a fudden fo violent a Shower, that the Priefts willing to get out
of the rain, thruft the Woman all along into the Fire. But the Shower was
fo vehement, and endur’d fo long a while, that the Fire was quench’d, and the
Woman was not burn’d. About midnight fbe arofe, and weht and knock’d at
the door of one of her Kinfmens Houfes, where Father Zenon and many Hol
lander* faw her, looking fo gaflly and grimly, that it was enough to have
fear’d them ; however the pain that fhe endur’d did not fo far terrific her, but
that three days after accompany'd by her Kindred, fhe went and was burnd
according to her firft intention.