'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.' [‎60] (609/1024)

(o A Relation of the Grand Seignorr Seraglio
C H A P. XIL
Of the Prelent, which the Grand Seignor lends even
Year to Mecha. *
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THE PRNCIPAL HEADS,
The third fan of the Revenue of Egypt, how
The great Wealth of the Sheck af Mecha. Ceremo
nies obfervd at MahometV Tomb. The Caravan of
Cairo. 7 he Prefent fent from Mecha to the Great
Mogul. The Ofinion of the Mahumetans, Concemm
Mecha and Medina.
Hat I make here a particular Chapter of the Prefent, which the Grand
Seignor fends every Year to Mecba, is occafion’d by this third part of the
Revenue of Egypt ;which is peculiarly ddign’d for it; and upon this
Confideratton withall. That I have Angular Remarks to make upon that
fubjeft.
r TthhTJZ fl hree Minions Of Livers ,of Twelve, of annual Revenue, which the Kingdom
VCmCZ c pay £ the Gra , ttd , , are Partly expended in the Rich Carpet, and the
employd, Sumptuous Tent, which he fends to the Sbec^ every year, in honour to Mahomet's
1 omhR Another pare goes to the payment of thofe who ferve in the Mofqueys;
As for mitance, the Imans, who are Priefts; the Cbeucbs, who are their Preachers;
the Mttezims, who 3 by their noife on the Towers of the Mofqueys, call the people
to tiieir Devotions; and the Kaijms of Mecbd and Medina^ who look to, and keep
”15 Mofcueys, and lightthe Lamps. We muff alfo put into the Account of
thefe Three Millions, the Sudenance of all the Pilgrims for the (pace of Seren-
ceqn dayes, the Grand Seignor fending, for that end, a fufficient Summe rathe
Sheck, This Shtc\ y who is, as "twere the Supream Perfon upon the fore of the
Law, and the high Pried of all the Mahumetans y what Country and Seel foever
they , be of, makes the poor ignorant people believe, that there come every year to
Mecha % Seventy thoufand Pilgrims, Men and Women 5 and if that number were
The treat n °c complear, the Angels v/ould come in humane forms* to make it up.
Wealth of the This Prince, whom we call the Sbech^ y for whom all the Mabwmtans have a
Sheck o/Me- S rcat: Veneration, is very Rich, and very powerful, and that may be ea/ily
eha. conje 61 ur 5 d, by the Prefents, which he receives every year from the Grand Seig
nor, and the other Mahumetan Princes. The Prefents are all his own, to be dif-
pos’d of as he pi cafes, at the end of the Year, when new ones are lent to him-
He makes his advantage alfo of all the prefents that are made by the Pilgrims, and
of the Silmmes of Mony, which thofe very Princes fend him, to be diftributed
in Alms^ which he alfo dilpofes of as he pleafes; and ail thefe Prefents put together,
make him fuch a Revenue as is hardly imaginable. For ^fahmnetifme fpreads
very much into Europe y Afa y and Africa^ and that much more then is conunoniy
believ’d as I fhall more didindly make it appear, at the end of my Relation, in a
which I deliga for the handling of that matter. , ^