'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.' [‎89] (408/1024)

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Book I
Travels in I u d i a.
having plunder’d it the year before. At which time the Hollanders Hew four
Kings of the Couutry.and iix hundred Blacks \ nor did there efcape but only one
ancient Queen, who was taken alive by a common Soldier, call’d Re*.
whom the Commander of the Army made a Captain immediately, for his re*
ward. They left one Company in that Houfe ; but the Queen flay’d there but
iix days, for they gave, her iiito the cuftody of Savarin, one of the moft
potent of the petty Kings upon that Coaft,to whom the Hollanders had promis'd
to give the City of Cr^^or, if they took Cochin % provided he would be faith
ful to them.
Six weeks pafs’d ere any thing confiderable was done ; but then the Hol-
landers, florming the Town by night, were repuls’d, and loft abundance of men,
(lain and taken Prifoners, through the Governour of Cranganors fault, who
commanded them,and was drunk when the aflault was made. Two months after
the General of the Hollanders refolv’d to make another aflault in the fame
place j and becaufe he would not want men, he fent for thofe that lay upon
the fide of Bette-epine. But by misfortune the Frigat ftruck upon the Sands
and fplitting, abundance of the Soldiers were drown’d. They that could fwim*
got to land near Cochin, not finding any other place convenient, and were
all taken Prifoners by the Portugals, being not above ten in all. Soldiers and
Mariners. -The General however would not give over the aflault, but caufing
the Searmen to land, he arm’d fome with half-Pikes, others with Swords, to
others he gave hand-Granadoes, and about ten a Clock in the morning he began
the aflault, with four Companies, confifting each of a hundred and fifty men.
The Hollanders loft abundance of men in this laft aflault, and fb did the Portu-
guefes, for they defended themfelves ftoutly, being feconded by two hundred
Soldiers, who were all Dm^-men, tho they fided with the Portngnefesy becaufe
their Countrymen had abated them fix months and a half pay for the lofs oiTouan.
Without the afliftance of thefe Soldiers, the City had never held out two months, '
there being among them one of the belt Hatch Engineers of his time, wh6
had left his Countrymen by reafon of their ill ufage of him.
At length the Hollanders having enter’d the Town toward evening, on Cali-
we fide, and being Mailers of the chief Bulwark, the Portagals came to a
Capitulation, and the City was furrender’d. The Portugal by their Articles
march’d out of Cochin with their Arms and Baggage} but when they came out
ofthe City where the Hollanders were drawn up in Battaliajhzy were all forc’d
to quit their Arms, and to lay them at the Generals feetexcept the Officers,
who kept their Swords. The General had promis’d the Soldiers the Pillage
of the Town, but not being able to keep his word , for feveral plaulible
reafons which he told,, he promis’d them fix months pay, which in a few days
after was reduc’d to eight Roupies a man. Samarin alfo demanded of him the
City of Cranganory according to his promife * which the General made good 5
but he caus’d all the Fortifications to be flighted firft, and left Samarin nothing
but the bare Walls. For being of a very mean Extraction, he was naturally as
cruel and barbarous in his difpofition. One time the Souldiers being fo put to
b ^° ur days t0 § etIier 9 ^at they could get no food for money, two of them
had fomewhere taken a Cow and kill’d her ^ for which the General, when he
came to know of it, caus’d one of them to be bang’d immediately, and had or-
him 0t ^ er t0 ^ 3Ve rUn thc Craunt * et ’ ^ad not King Perea interceded for
W a S a petty King of that Countrey, with whom the General was
Treaty; and the Treaty being at length concluded,the General mufter’d
his Land and Sea-men, to the number of about fix thoufand men. A few
ays arter, he fent fome Companies to befiege the City of Cananory which fur-
emer d without any refiftence. When they return’d,the General caus’d a Crown
e made for the new King of Cochiny the other being expell’d his Countrey,
npr I 1 ? 0111 lec * a y which he had appointed for this moft folemn Coronation,the Ge-
1 - a at upon a kind of a Throne, at the foot whereof, a Malay are or Pirat*
"gleduither between three Captains of each fide, fell upon his knees to
Kinor? 6 Crown from the Generals hand, and to do homage fof a petty
5 cun, that is to fay, the little City of Cochin and its Territories, which
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