'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.' [‎3] (546/1024)

T Queftion not but that feveral Relations of the Grand
Seignors Seraglio have been publifli’d ; but I am to
acknowledge withal that I have not had the leifure to
read any one of them; I have travell’d fix feveral times, by
Land, into the Eafi, and by different Roads, during the {pace
of Forty Years; and moft perfons know, that my Employ
ments were fuch, as would not allow me milch time for the
reading of Books. But when my Affairs afforded me any re-
miffion, I wholly employ’d thofe fpare hours, in the eolle&ion
of things the molt worthy to be remark’d^ whether the Scene
lay in Turkey, or in Perjia, or in the $ On this, of the
other fide of the River Ganges , or in the Diamond-Mines $
which are in the Territories of divers Princes. While! ani bu
lled in putting into order thofe Memories, whifch Icoiieeive my
felf oblig’d to gratify the Publick withal^ I make it £ Prefent
of this Relation of the Seraglio, attended with foirie Obfer-
vations fufficiently remarkable, which, haply, will not be un-
pleafant.
The Ottoman Court, which makes fo much ttpife in the
World, has not, to my thinking, been yet fufficicntly well
luiown, if I may judge of it, by what I have feen thereof my
felf, and have heard from feveral Perfbns. I do here com
municate a faithful and ample defcription thereof: which I
have extra£fed, as well out of what I had bbferv’d my felf, iii
the feveral Voyages I made to Conjlantinopk, as out of the infor
mations l receiv’d from two intelligent Perfbns, who had {pent
many years in the Seraglio, in very confidefable Employments.
One of whom was a Sicilian, advanc’d to the Charge of Cbaf-.
ttadar-bachi, or chief Officer belonging to the Trcafury ; and
after Five and Fifty years Service in the Seraglio, was, for fome
“ight mifcarriage committed by him; banifh’d to a place near
Burfa, in Natalia, from whence he hiade his efcape into the
Indies. The other, a Pdrijian-born, named De Viennej had
been one of the Pages of the Treafury. In his Return from
me Jubilee at Rome, in the Year M.DC.Li being aboard as
'tigantine bound from Civiia Vecchid to Mdrjeilles , hb Was
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