'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.' [‎5] (676/1024)

of the Empire of the M O G O L.
wards betell him: For, to (hut .them up in Goualeor, which is a Fortrefs where th“
Princes are ordinarily kept clofe, and which is held impregnable, it being fituated upon
an inacccilible Rock, and having within it felf good water, and provifion eriotwh for
a Oarifon ; that was not foeatie a thing. They were too potent already, each of them
having a Princely Train. And again, he could not handfomly remove them far off,with
out giving them fomeGovernment fit for their Birth; wherein he apprehended tfow
would Cantonize thendelves, and become little independent Kings, as adhiallv rhev
afterwards did. Neverthelefs, fearing led they fliould cut one anothers Throat beW-
his Eyes, if he kept them (fill at Court, he at laft concluded to fond them away. And
fo he fent Sultan Sujab ,his fecondSon, info the Kingdom ot Bengale -, his third Au-
mg-Zehe, into Decan-, and the youngeft, Morad-Bakche, to Guzaratte ; giving toIW
the eldeft, Cabal and Multan. The three firft went away very well contentwith thofo
Government, and there they adfed each the Soveraign, and retained all the Revenues of
their refpedive Countries, entertaining great Troops, under the pretence of bridling
their Subjects and Neighbours. As to Vara, becaufe the elded, anddefigned to the
Crown, he birred not from the Court; Which that he (hould not do, fremed alfo to be
the intention of Chah- 'Jeban, who entertained him in the hopes of focceeding him after
his death. He even permitted then, that Orders were iffued out by him, and that he
might fit in a kind of Throne, beneath his, among the Omrahs ; fot'hat it’feeme'd as if
there wire two Kings together. But as ’tis very difficult fbr two Soveraigns to agree
Cbab-Jeban,though Vara (hew’d him great obfervance and affedtion, always harbour’d’
.fane diffidence, fearing above all things the Morfel-, and belides, for as much as he knew
the parts of Aureng-Zebe, and thought him more capable to Reign than any of the reft
he had always ( as they fay ) fome particular correfpondence with him. ’
This it is, what I thought fit to premife concerning thefe four Princes, and their Fa-
ther Cbab-Jeban, becaufe ’tis neceffary for the undemanding of all that follows I
efteem'd alfo, that I was not to forget thofe two Princeffes, as having been the mbft
confiderable A&ors in the Tragedy ; the Women in the Indies taking very often, as well
as at Conftantimple, and in many other places, the beft part in the moff important Tran-
(adhons, though men take foldom notice of it, and trouble their heads of feekino- for
other caufes. 0
But to deliver this Hiftory with clesnrnefs, wemuftrife fomewhat higher, and relate
what paffed, fome time before the Troubles, between Aureng Zebe^ the King of Golkpnda
and his Vifier Emir-Jemla s becaufe this will difeover to us the character and temper of
Amng-Zebe, who is to be the Heros of this Piece, and the King of the Indies, Let us
then fee, after what manner Emir-Jemla proceeded, to lay the firfi foundation of the
Loyalty of Aureng Zehe,
Durmg the time that Ameng-Zebe was in Vecan, the King of Goltynda had for his
vilier and General of his Armies this Emir-Jemla^ who was a Eerfian by Nation, and
very tanious in the Ifidies, He was not a man of great Extradion, but beaten in Bufi-
seb, a perfon of excellent parts, and a great Captain. He had the wit of amaffing
g re at Ireafures, not only by the ad mi nitration of the affairs of this opulent Kingdom
nut alio by Navigation and Trade, fending Ships into very many Parts, and caufing the’
iatnond Mines,which he alone had farmed under many borrowed names,to be wrought
with extraordinary diligence. So that people difeourfed almoft of nothing but of the
Niches of Emir-Jemla, and of the plenty of his Diamonds, which were not reckon’d
ut by backs. He had alfo the skill to render himfelf very potent and confiderable en-
ertaming, befides the Armies of the King, very good Troops for his particular , ’ and
o°ve a ] ] a very good Artillery, with abundance of Franguys orChrifiians to manage it.
• he grew fo rich, and fo puiffant, efpecially after he had found a way to enter
otheKmgdom of Kar nates, and to pillage all the ancient Churches of the Idols of
ton r 0 jji tr ^ 5 that tne King or Golkpnda became jealous, of it, and prepared himfelf
hin n ^ t u hecaufe he could not bear what was reported of
h ll ^ Sit he ufed too great familiarity with the Queen his Mother, that was yet
inp-^^ cover ^ nothing of hisdefign to any, having patience, and wait-
An came to the Court, for he was then in the Kingdom of Karnates with his
k ') * ^ ut one w h^n more particular News was brought him of what had paffed
^vv’cen his mother and him, he had not power enough to 'diffemble any longer , but
niarG - rted by Ch()ler r ° fal110 inve< ^ lve s and menaces : Whereof Emir was foon
e acquainted, having at the Court abundance of his Wives Kindred, and all his
nearefi