'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.' [‎172] (501/1024)

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all ftretch’d out dead upon the place , without any mark in
feen that they had any way batten’d their own deaths. t0 ^
Two of the moft potent Raja King 's of India came to Ana in the vear
to do homage to Sha-jehan, who then reign’d ; who not having acauittpH pf 42 ’
felves as they ought to have done,in the judgment of the Grand-Matter olZ k™'
Houfhold, he told one of the Rajas one day, in the prefence of th v DgS
that they had not done well, to behave themfelves in that manner
great a Monarch, as was the King his Matter. The looking upon h d c^
to be a great King, arM a great Prince, he apd his Brother having^roughf f 15
with them a Tram of 15 or idooo thoufand Horfe, was netfd ar !
reproof which the Grand Matter gave him, and drawing out his Dawl n
him upon the place,m the prefence of the King. The Grand Matter fafe
feet of his own Brother, who flood clofe by him, he was going abS "
venge his death, but was prevented by the Brother, who fLvn"'
and laid him athwart his Brothers Body. TheKing, who beheld the! t
murthers one upon the neck of the other, retir’d into his Hamm for fear C
prefentlythe Omrahs and other people fell upon the Raja King 's, and cut’em tn
pieces. The King mcens d at fuch an attempt committed in his Houfe and in
his prefence, commanded the Rajah's bodies to be thrown into the River • whkk
their Troops that they had left about a 4 gra underftanding, threaten’d m
enter the City and pillage it. But rather thin hazard the City the
advis d to deliver them the Bodies of their Princes. When they were to beburtfd
thirteen Women belonging to the two Raja’s Houfes, came dancing and lean™
and prefently got upon the Funeral pile, holding one another by the hanS
bemg prefently after ftifl d with the fmoak,felI togetherinto the fire. Prefendv
the Bramtns threw great heaps of Wood, pots of Oil, and other combuftib e
matter upon them, to difpatch them the fooner.
c ? ran ^ e P aira g. e at FatKa ->being then w ith the Governour, a voiim
Gentleman of about twenty-four years of age, in his own Houfe. While 1 was
with him, in came a young woman, very handfome, and not above two and
twenty years old, who defir’d leave of the Governour to be burnt vS
* °^ iie ^ deceas ,^ ^ Us band. The Governour compaffionating her youth
not end i? aV r U1 i d t0 dlVerC her fr0m her refohltion i but finding he could
the tormen? nf ft 3 fur 7 co ™ te u na n ce >b e ask’d her whether Ihe underftood what
the torment of fire was, and whether fhe had ever burnt her fingers’ No no
anfwer ’in a r3 i.. 2 lte ^.y° rc b, hither.. The Governour abominating her
with the r S16 P affi ° n bid her go to the Devil. Some young Lords that were
whkh wi?h V m e nrh U H k r n d n him ? tT I- the Woman > and t0 caI1 for a Torch;
2 womfn G t k ad r u bghted Torch was brought. So foonas
han<rfo th P f fl W he ,1 g h , ted . To rch Coming, foe ran to meet it, and held her
ormpWnnf !k n0take .u nsher countenance in the leaft ; ftill fearing her
Xr^f„T°2 e VEry dbw ’ tdI herflefll look ’ da s if it had been brod’d ;
whereupon the Governour commanded Jier out of his fight.
that fhpvmiG > ? n ®i 5 0 and aflembling all his Tribe together,told them,
mr Tn w L,^! Ve t ^ ou ^ an< ^ and twenty-feven Ells of Cali-
rnnid Dn^n^fTKi 16 ai ^ on S t ^ lem raa de him anfwer,that they were poor,and
hfivelv ^ rai f e ^ 11C ^ a f i! m * However he perfifted in his demand, po-
^ wou ^ ftay there without eating or drink-
.4 br ° Ug !] r hira the Mone y and Cloath. With this refolution he
wi'thnnf ^ ^ee^ and fetting in the fork between the boughs, remain’d there
rnm atms °l dniikm ^ for fcveral The noife of this extrava-
f *- u f° the ears the Hollanders where we lay, we fet Sentinels
lt: ^. ere true, that a man could lit fo Jong without viftu-
Vvfr h ^ dld t° r fx thi r y ^ ays to g ether - The one and thirtieth day of fuch
cr X o C ? 0rdl u- ary u^ afl t’ the Idolaters fearing to kill one of their Priefts for want
fmSn IS demaild 5 club’d together, and brought him his twenty-
m " S j “ cu t? an d two thoufand Roupies. So loon as the Bramin faw
im u ra ; . n ^ y .Gk^th, he came down from the Tree ; and after he had
P aided thofe of his Tribe for want of Charity, he dihributed alUhe Roupies
c; ^ •• ^ - among