'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.' [‎195] (524/1024)

Book II
Travels in India.
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will tell you hardly to be believ’d, but that which is a certain truth, which
is, that when any other King or Raja King has one of thefe Elephants of Ceylm<
if they bring him among any other breed in any other place whatfoever, fo toon
as the other Elephants behold the Cey/an Elephants, by an inltindt of na
ture they do him reverence, laying their trunks upon the Ground, and raifinp
them up again. V "~\ ' ®
The King otAchen, with whom the Hollanders alfo broke their word had
more opportunity to be reveng’d upon them then the King of Candy. For he
deni’d them the tranfportation of Pepper out of his Country, without which
their trade was worth little. His Pepper being that which is molt coveted by
theEaft. So that they were forc’d to make a compofition with him. The King
of Achem Embafladour coming to Batavia, was ftrangely furpriz’d to fee wo
men iitting at the Table ; but much more, when after a health drank to the
Queen of Achen, the General of Batavia commanded his Wife to go and kifs
the Embafladour. Nor was the King behind hand with the Dutch Embalfadour
another way; whom the King beholding in a languilhing diftemper, ask’d him
whether he had never any familiarity with any of the Natives. Yes, replied
the Embafladour; however I left her to marry in my own Country. Upon that
the King commanded three of his Phylieians to cure him in fifteen days upon
the forfeiture of their lives. Thereupon they gave him a certain potion every
morning, and a little Pill at night j and at the end of nine days he took a great
Vomit. Every body thought he would have dy’d with the working of it; but
at length brought up a ftopple of courfe hair, as big as a nut; after which
he prefently recover’d. At his departure the King gave him a Flint about the
bignefs of a Goofe Egg, with veins of Gold in it, like the veins of a mans
hand, as the Gold grows in that Country^
CHAP. XXL
The Authors departure from Ceylan, and his arrival at Batavia,
T H E twenty-fifth of May we fet fail from Rome Gaik. The fecond of
yraewe pafs’dthe Line. The fixth wefaw the Illand call’d Navaco's.
i he feventeenth we difeover’d the Coalt of Sumatra, the eighteenth the Illand
ot Imamina, and the nineteenth the Ifland of Fortune. The twentieth we were
in ken of certain little lllands, and the Coaft of Java ; among which Illands
there are three call’d the Iflands of the Prince. The one and twentieth we dif.
cover d Bantam, and the two and twentieth we anchor’d in the Road of Ba-
tavia.
There are two Councils in Batavia^ the Council of the Fort^ where the Ge-
ne k. P. re kd es , and where all the affairs of the Company are manag’d. The other
which is held in a Houfe in the City, and relates to the Civil Government, and
aii t ^ e P ett ^ differences among the Citizens.
the kindnefs I had fhew’n me here, was to be profecuted by the City
ouncil, for being fufpedted to have bought a parcel of Diamonds for Moun^
leui Conslant, my very good Friend, and Prefident of the Dutch Fa&ory at
Jomron - hut when they could make nothing of it, they ceas’d their fuit, a~
mm d of what they had done.