'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] (667/1024)

greedinefs of the Curious, who prefer their fatisfa&ion to his quiet, and
do already perfecute him to have the fequel of this Hifbry. Neither fhall
I mention to you the hazards he did run, by being in the Neighbourhood
of Mecca y nor of his prudent Condud, which made him merit the efteem
of his Generous Fazelcan, who fince is become the firft Mtnifter of that
Great Empire, whom he taught the principal Languages of Europe, after
he had Tranflated for him the whole Philofophy otGaJfendi in Latin, and
whofe leave he could not obtain to go home, till he had got for him a fe~
led number of our bed European Books, thereby to fupply the lofs he
fliould fuffer of his Perfon. This, at lead, I can affure you of, that never
a Traveller went from home more capable to obferve, nor hath written
with more knowledge, candour, and integrity 5 that I knew him at Con-
flantinople, and in fome Towns of Greece, of fo excellent a Condud, that
I propofed him to my felf for a Pattern in the Defign I then had, to carry
my Curiofity as far as the place where the Sun rifeth j that I have often
drowned in the fweetnefs of his entertainment the bitterndfes, which elfe I
muft have fwallowed all alone, in fuch irkfome and unpleafant paffages, as
are thofe of Afia.
Sir, You will do me a pleafure to let me know the fentiment, your II-
luftrious Society hath of this Piece. Their Approbation begets much emu
lation among the Intelligent, who all have no other Ambition than to pleafe
them. I my (elf muft avow to you, that if I thought I could merit fo
much, I fbould not fo ftifly oppofe, as I do, the Publication of the Ob-
fervations and Notes I have made in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. . Ifhould fuffer my Friends
to take them out of my Cabinet, where from the (light value I have for
them, they are like to lye imprifoned, except the King my Mafter, by
whole Order I undertook thole Voyages, fhould abfolutely command me to
fet them at liberty, and to let them take their courfein the world. Mean
time, Sir* you will oblige me, to affure thofe Great Men, who this day
compofe the moft knowing Company on Earth, of the Veneration I have
for the Oracles that come from their Mouth, and that I prefer their Lyceum
before that of Athens y and laftly, that of all their Admirers there is none,
that hath a greater Concern for their Glory, than
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