'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.' [‎9] (680/1024)

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choice ot his Army, and with all diligence went away with Sultan Mazum. At his ar
rival, Aureng-Zebe courted him in the highefl degree, treating him no otherwife than
with the name oi Baba and Babagy^ that is. Father, Lord-Father i and after an hun
dred Embraces, he took him fomewhat afide, and told him ( according to what I could
learn from perfons who knew of it ) Eh at it mu not juft, that having hi* Family at the
Court, he jhould adventure to do any thing in his behalf that might come to be known *, but
that, after all, there was nothing fo difficult but an Expedient might be found. Give me leave
therefore, faid he, to propofe to you a Veftgn, which at firft will poffiibly furprife you , but,
fince you apprehend the danger of your Wife and Children that are in Hoftage, the bed way
of providing for their fecurity would be, to fuffier me to'feize on your perjon, and to put you
in Prifon. It is out of doubt, that all the World will believe it done in earncft : For who
would imagine, that fuch a perfon as you would be content to let your felf be laid in Pri
fon? In the interim, I could make ufe of part of your Army, and of your Artillery, as
you fhall judge moft proper and convenient: Ion alfo could furnifh me with a Sum of mo
ney, as you have frequently offered itand be fide s, met h inky I might tempt Fortune further
and we might together take, our meafures, to fee in what manner I had heft to demean my fdfi
if you would alfo permit, that I might caufe you to be tranjported into the Fortrefs 0/Dau-
let-Abad, where you Jhould be Mailer ? and that there. I might have you kypt by my own
Son, Sultan Mazum, or Sultan Mahmoud j this would yet better palliate the matter, and
I fee not, what Dara could juftly Jay of it, nor how he could reafonably treat your Wife and
Children ill*
Emir, whether it were by reafon of the friendlhip he had fworri to Atireng-Zehe , or
for the great promifes made to him, or the apprehenfion he had, of feeing near him Sul
tan Mazum, who flood by, very penfive and well armed, and Sultan Mahmoud, who
looked grim upon him for his coming away at the folicitation of his Brother, not at that
of his, and bad at his very entrance lift up his foot, as if he would have hit him 5 what
ever of thefe Coniiderations might induce him, confented to all what Aureng-Zebe defi-
, red, and approved of the Expedient to fufler himfelf to be imprifon’d j fo that Auren?-
Zebe being no fooncr gone, but the great Maflcr of the Artillery was feen to approach
with feme flercenefs to Emir, and to command him in the name of Aureng-Zebe to fol
low him, locking him up in a Chamber, and there giving him very good words, whilfl
all the Soldiery that Aureng-Zebe had thereabout, wotK to their Arms. ThVreport of
the detention of Emir-Jemla was no fooner fpreal|Sfct a great Tumult arofej and
thofe, whom he had brought along with him, althod® |ftonifli’d, yet put fhemfelvcs
into a poflure of refeuinghim, and with their Sworcfs drawn ran to force the Guards,
and the Gate of his Prifon, which was eafie for them to do: For Aureng-Zebe had not
with him fuflicient Troops to make good fo bold an Enterprife, the only name efiEmir-
Jemla made all tremble. But the whole matter being altogether counterfeited, all thefe
Commotions were prefently calmed, by the intimations that were given to the chief Of
ficers of Emirs Army, and by the prefence of Aureng-Zebe, who there appeared very
refolute with his two Sons, and fpoke now to one, then to another i and at lafl Pro
mifes and Prefects, liberally beflowed on thofe that w T ere concerned. So that all the
Troops of Emir, and even mofl of thofe of Chah-Jehan, feeing things troubled, and
being without their General, and believing Chah-Jehan to be dead, or, at befl, defpe-
r ^tely lick i conlidering alfo the ample promifes made to them of augmenting their bti-
P en d, and of giving them at that very time three months Advance, fopn Lifted them-
Llves under Aureng-Zebe who having feized on all the Equipage of Emir, even his
v ery Camels and Tents,took the Field, rdolved to march to the Siege of Suratte, and to
ballen the taking it in ■> where Morad-Bakche was exceedingly embarrafled,bccaufe that
bis befl Troops were employed there,and that he found more refiftance in that place than
be imagined* But Aureng-Zebe, after feme days March, was informed, that the Go-
v ernor had furrendred the Place i for which he fent Congratulations to Morad-Bdkphe,
acquainting him withal of his Tranfadlions with Emir-Jemla, and affuring him, that he
bad Forces and Money enough, and very good intelligence at the Courts that nothihg
was wanting-, that he was dire&ly going to Brampour and Agra i that he had expeded
km on the way, and therefore ddired him to join with him., 1
Tis true, that Morad-Bakche found not fo much money in the Fortrefs of Suratte as’
ie bad imagined,-whether it were that really there was not fo much as was reported,
0r whether the Governor had diverted a part of it, as fome believed : Yet notwith-
banding that little he found there was ufeful to him, to pay the Soldiers that had Lifted
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