'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.' [‎208] (537/1024)

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Travels in I n d i a.
Part II.
then to the South v becaofe the feafon for failing was far fpent j and for that if we
fteef’d for the Weft Jndiis, we ftiould find the wind more proper to carry us into
Holland. But we had no fooner crofs’d the Line,but we found the wind quite eor-
trary to what the Mariners expefted ; fo that we were forc’d to iteer to
the fixty-forth Degree of Altitude with the Ifland, and fo return by the North
into Holland.
CHAP. XXVIII.
the Holland Fleet fets Sail from St. Helens, and proftem^ a r»
rives in Holland. ^
H E next day after the Admiral had call’d a CounciI,we weigh’d and fet Sail
1 about ten a Clock at night. Three days after our departure from St. Helens,
the Seamen were call’d very dully to prayers morning and evening; though all
the time we ftaid in the rode, they never minded any fuch matter j which made
me wonder, to find they fhould be more devout when they were out of danger,
than when they were in jeopardy. ^ ,
After feveral other days failing,we difcover d the Coait of JJland, and then the
Ifland of Fere Ha, v/here we join’d with the Holland Fleet that flay’d for us. Here
it is that the Commander in chief calls to account all the Mariners for their mifde*
meanoursduring the whole Voyage. ~ ^
Our Ship was bound for Zealand y but we were forc'd to lye out at Sea feven
days before we could get into Flujhing, becaufe the Sand had chang’d its place.
Coming to an Anchor before Finding, two of the Company came aboard to wel
come us home, and to advife us to lock our Chefts, and put our marks upon
them* for all Chefls are carry’d into the Eaft India Houfe, where when the
owners come for them, they are order’d to op’n them, left they fhould have any
counterband goods therein. Thereupon I fet a mark upon my Chefts, and went
afhore, after I had giv’n a good chara&er of the Captain, and his civility tome
ail the Voyage, and thence proceed by Land to Middleburgk
Four days after I came to Middlebargh, I went to fetch my Chefts j and find
ing the two Directors there, one a Zealander, the other of Horn, who came firft
aboard us ; I produc’d my Keys,and offer’d my Chefts to be open’d. But the ZtA-
lander more civil than the Horner, deliver’d me my Keys again, and taking my
word, told me I was free to take away my goods. And indeed I have always ob-
ferv’d, that the Northern people are always more rude and ungentile than the
Southern.
As for the 17500 Florins which the General of Batavia promis’d fhould be
paid me upon my arrival in Holland,, I receiv’d fo many delays and put offs, that
I was at length forc’d to commenced a Suit that lafted above two years j nor coulu
I get a publick Notary either at Amfterdam or the Hague, that would make me
out a proteft^ every one fearing the Directors, who were both Judges an ar
ties. At length after five years wrangling and jangling,the Diredor wrote to my
Brother at Batavia (Tor I was then return’d again to the Indies) that it 1 vvouiq
accept of 10000 Livres, he might receive it for me j which he did, and was
forc’d to give them an acquittance form the whole. ,
This is the return which I made from the Indies in the year 1
only time that ever I return’d by Sea •„ having perform’d all the Klt ot l
Travels by Land, not counting my ffiort Voyages through the
for any thing. And as for my firft Travels, perform’d them all by La “> , d
Paris through Germany and Hungary, as far as Conftantinople ; whither
again in the year 1669. From Constantinople l went to Smyrna, thence * .
for Ligorn ; from Ligorn I travel’d by Land to Genoa, thence to Turing
£0 Paris. . .t
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