'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.' [‎4] (547/1024)

fcnt him, as a Prefent, to the Grand Seignor. H e was alfo
pack’d away out of the Seraglio, after Fifteen Years Service
was by his credit that the Parifian was firft advanc’d to the
Chamber of the Treafury.
From thofe two men, who were in a fair capacity to make
exa& Obfervations of things, have I extra&ed the better part
of this Relation. Though they had been forc’d to embrace
the erroneous perfwafion of Mahomet, yet were there fome
Relicks of the good fentiments of Chriftianity : And whereas
there was not the leaft hope of recovering the honours, where*
in they pride themfelves who are exalted to Charges in the
Seraglio, it is not to be imagin’d, that they could have any
defign to difguife things to me. They themfelves thought it
a certain pleafure to defijend to a greater familiarity of Dif-
courfe, and to fpecifie even the leaft circumftances: but lam
to difcover withal, that having had their education ambngft
the Turks, and learnt of them, to love Money, it muft have
been fo much tne greater charge to me, to give them content.
1 have kept them for a confiderable fpace of time, at my own
charge, and that in feveral places, one at Ifpahan in Perfid, and
the other in the Indies, where they had made their refidences,
and the Memoires which they fupply’dme withal Were perfefi-
ly concordant
To the Inftru£Hons, which I made a ftiift to get from thofe
two men, and to what difcoveries I may have made my felf,
of the prefent ftate of the Grand Seignor’s Palace, I {hall add
fome neceflary Obfervations of the Manners and Cuftomes of
feveral Provinces of the Ottoman Empire, (lightly palling over
thofe things. Which, in all probability, are generally known.
But that the Reader may With greater eafe comprehend the
matters 1 treat of, and that the difcourfe may not beintef-
rupted, by the neceffary explication of the feveral names of
Charges and Dignities, I have thought it fit, in the firft place,
to give a fliott Lift Of them, after which (hall follow another,
bf the different Soecies of Money, which are current all ovet
only upon this fcore, that there was foihe difcovery made 0 f
his holding a fecret correfpondence with the difgrac’d Suil m
who had heretofore fhewn him much kindnefs, and indeedit
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