'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.' [‎13] (562/1024)

The Different Species of Goldl and Silver-Coins,
the Imall Money now current in
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TOGETHER WITH THE
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HISTORY OF THE TRADE
In Five Sols Pieces (French Money) and the Abolition of it.
IHere are but two Species of Gold-Com current all over the ‘Turkifh Empire 5 What Money
the one is the proper Countrey Money, the other comes out of Forein current inTm
Parts* The former is the Scherifj otherwife called Sequin, or Sultanhe 5
and that kind of Gold is worth at the prefent fix Franks, French Money*
though heretofore it yielded but five Franks, nay came fo low as four.
the Scherip come from Egypt, and Cairo is the only City of the Empire, where the Gold
Gold is ctfiiTd. That Cold is brought out of the Kingdom of the Abyffmes, and brought to Cai* ,
this is the manner how it is brought to Cairo, The quantity is not the fame every r ° an ^ wM}
year, and when the paffages are fhut up, whether by War, or by extraordinary f -
Rains, whereby the Fields are overflown, there comes but little Gold into Egypy
during that time* Asfoon asthofe obftrudtions ate takn away, and that there is a
freedom of Commerce, you {hall fee arriving at Cairo, nay at Alexandria too,feveraf
Ahyffmes who bring in, one man, two pounds, another four, every one more oriels,
according to his abilities. Thofe poor People run a thoufand rifques in their Travels*
and ’tis almofl: a miracle, how they bring them to a period. Some of them are of
that Country, whence the Queen of Sheba came, and which is now call'd the King
dom of labour. Others come from places at a greater diftance, and they have
lometimes fifteen days journeys to make, and cannot meet with any Waters to drink*
but what are corrupt,and deftrinStive to health : which I found but too true my felf,
jyhen I crofs’d the Defarts of Arabia. If by chance they come to fdme Cottage or
Hut, where they have kill’d an Elephant, it is a place for them to feaft in. This
confider’d, we need not wonder at the fhort lives of thofe miferable People, whofe
Bodies are deflroy’d in thofe Voyages* and who for the mo ft part do not exceed
forty years of Age. The cafe is the fame with thofe, who trade with the Fortu-
guejes, on the Grafts of Melinda and Mozambico, the corrupt Waters they are forc ’4
to drink in their way make them hydropical at five and twenty years of Age, and
generally, all the fevefal peoples of the Kingdom of Sabour, have the right Leg
iwell’d’ and twice as big as the left, and feldom exceed five and thirty years. ihe fmcerity of
, ’Tis a miraculous thing to fee the fidelity wherewith thofe poor Abyjjines de- the Abyflfme^
mcar * themfelves in trading, as well thofe of the Southern parrs, who are Cbrijii*
an C as thofe^f the North, who border upon Egypt, and are Mahumetans. For
fer they have_ taken the Commodities-they like for the Gold they have'
Drought, if the Merchant they deal with will fupply them with any thing fur-
. h be paid at their return, and ftpon their own words, he js fure enough of
l ^>. ^ need not break his fleep for it. For if it happen that one of thofe
Ahjptief, who is a Debtor* fhould die by the way, fome of his Relations or*
friends, whom he acquaints with his affairs, brings the Gold at the next return
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