'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.' [‎199] (528/1024)

CHAP. XXIII.
ibe Authors return to Batavia. His re-vifiting the King of Ban
tam. And a relation of feveral Extravagancies of certain Fa-
quirs in their return from Mecca,
A Bout elev 7 n a Clock at night, we embark’d for Batavia ; for the
4 nigh£ winds blowing from the Land, are the only winds to ferve our
turn ; fo that we were at Batavia between ten- and eleven the next morning
There I flay’d twenty days for the King of Bantam's fake, to make him belive
1 had fought for that which I knew was impofTible to be found. I had nothing
to do all the while, for in Batavia there is no other recreation than gaming
and drinking, which was none of my bufinefs. At that time the Sieur Cant
dy’d,one of the Indian Counfeilors, who was fumptuoufly buri’d for his good
fervices done to the Company; but the people complain’d heavily of the in-
juftice which he had done as well to the Souldiers as Mariners.
Having flay d twenty days at Bantam^ I refblv’d to go and return the King
d Bantam his Dagger again ^ for it was impoffible to meet with flones tafit
his Beazils. However I took along with me fome other Stones which he
had not feen. Coming to Bantam, the King caus’d us to be lodg’d in one of
his own Houfes in the City, which was made of Bamboo's. Thither in lefs
then a quarter of an hour, the King lent us fbme Pateches, or fweet Water-
Melons, red within like Scarlet. We had alfo Mongo’s, and a certain large
Fruit call’d Bomfone, red alfo within, the meat of it being foft and fpungy, but
of an excellent tafle. Having flay’d our flomachs, we went to wait upon the
King, whom we found in the fame place, with his old Mortar-bearer, who
every foot fed him with Betle with her fingers.’ There were fitting about the
Hall five or fix of his Captains, viewing a certain parcel of Fire-works, as Gra-
nado’s, Rochets, and other divices to run upon the water, which the Chi-
nefes had brought ^ who are the moft exquifite at thofe fports of any people
in the world. When the King was at leafure, I return’d him his Dagger, tel
ling him, that Batavia was no place to meet with ftones} and that fuch as
were to be found, were valu’d at double the price they were worth \ and that
tnere was no place where he could fit himftlf, but at Golconda, Goa, or the
Diamond Mines. Thereupon the old woman took the Dagger,and carry’d it in
to his Haram ; nor did the King fpeak one word more about. it. After that I
Ihewd him what other flones I had brought, a percel whereof I fold him
to good profit; the King ordering us to-come the next day for payment.
The next day about fix a Clock in the morning, my Brother and I, and a
Batch Chirurgion, were going along a narrow way, between a River on the
one hand, and the Pales of a great Garden on the other. Behind the Pales a
Kafcally Bamamois, had hid himfelf y one of thofe that was newly come from
Mecca, and was upon the defign Moqua that is, in their Language, wkea
t ie Rafcality of the Mahmnctans return from Mecca, they prefently take their
'^in their hands, w hich is a kind of Poniard, the Blade whereof is half
» d j with which they run through the flreets, and kill all thofe which
s Mahometan Law, till they be kill’d themfelves. Thefe Furies
fo doing they do God and Mahomet good fervice, and fh^all be
. If any of thefe madmen be kill’d, the Rabble oi Mahumetans
as Saints, and every one contributes to make a fair Tomb.
} °m Y 0 ^ h ave an KK e Rogue, in the habit of a Dervich, that will
^ila him a Hut near the Tomb, which he undertakes to look to, and flrew
^tn Flowers. And as his alms increafe, he adds fome other ornament to it.
or t^e Fairer and better fet out the Tomb is, the more devoutly it is wor-
Tu, and the more Alms it brings in. I remember in theyear 1642, that
vvh’ch is the Port of Surat, it happen’d that a Vefiel of the great
' °M S turn’d from Mecca, with a great number of Faquirs or Derviches. For
evfery