'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.' [‎158] (485/1024)

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Travels in India*
contriv’d a defign to feize this Packet, upon the report that ran of the rupture
between England and Holland. Cafembrot having feen the bignefs of the Packet
gives Wauvouckj* difcription of it, and fb both together they contrive another of
the fame form and bignefs as neer as they could. When I came a-board,I took
the Engiifo Packet, and lock’d it, up in my Bouceha i: which is the fort of Cloak-
bag that is us’d in that Countrey,and laid it behind my BolHer. There were two
Shallops fent a-board us, wherein there were fixty bags of Silver,containing f ora e
fifty,fome a hunder’d Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a piece. Thefe bags they unladed very leifurely to
gain time,watching when I would be gone to bed. But when they faw that 1 did
not go to reft,the Dutch confulted together,and agreed to let fail a bag oiTomans
into the Sea:, and fo came all a-board,fending away a Shallop to Gomron for a Di
ver. When Pfound that the Veflel would not fet Sail till two or three hours after
day-light, i went to reft,my lying in the fame place,half out,and half with
in-fide of my Bolfter .* But when my Servants were gone,and I alone and a-fleep
in the Cabin, they cunningly Hole .my Bouccha^ook out the Packet, and
left the other which they had counterfeited, in the place *, being only fomany
Letters of blanck-paper. Coming to Surat the fixth of May following,! gave the
Packet, as I thought, which 1 had receiv’d from the Englijh Agent at Gomm r to
two Capuchin-Friers to deliver to the Prefident at Surat. But when the Preli-
dent came to open the Packet before fevcral of the Company,there was nothing
but white-paper made up in the form of Letters \ which when I heard, too much
to my forrow, I underftood the villanous trick that Fan-Wuck had put upon me.
1 wrote a fmart Letter of complaint to the D/tft^-General in Bat avia Jyxxt finding
no redrefs, was forc’d to undergo the hard cenfure of the Englijh, who would
not permit me to juftify my felf. However, as it is rare to fee treachery go un-
puniih’d, the Complotters all dy’d miferably. T'an-Wuck fell into a violent Fe
ver, and being charg’d with the theft; thinking to defend himfelf with an equi
vocation, that if he took the Cloak-bag, he wifh’d he might dye without {peak
ing a word, in three days ended his life juft in the fame manner, and at the
fame time that he had imprecated upon himfelf. Bozan his Lieutenant, after 2
great debauch, going to fleep upon the Terrafs of the Cabin, where he lay for
coolnefs/there being no baliftersj/rolling and tumbling in his {leep,fcll dowiijand
the next day was found dead in the Sea.
The Captain,four or five days after his arrival at Surat, being met in the Street
by a Mahometan, who was jealous of his Wife, and being miftak’n by him for
one among feveral Franks, that had parted him, and kept him from correfting
his Wife fbme few days before,was ftabb’d by him in three or four places witha
Dagger,and kill’d him out right. And this was the end ofthofc treacherous people.
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