'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] (684/1024)

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tmtan and by conkquence an Enemy of the Heathen, yet for all that entertains alwavs a
good number oi kajas in his ferv.ce,whom he confiders as his other Omrabs. A nd imnlovs
in his Armie. c as if they were Mahometans. 'iiuys
I camyot forbear to relate here the heree reception, which the Daughter of theW
gave to her Husband jeJJomf agne, after his defeat and flight. When fhe heard tiiat he
was nigh, and had underifood what had palled in the Battel; that he had fought with ah
pofhble courage; that he had but four or five hundred Men left; and that at laii not
being able to refift any longer the Enemy, he had been obliged to retreat • She infr ad
of (endingone to receive hun and m condole him in his misfortunes, commanded in a
dry mood to (hut the Gates of the Caffle, and not to let this infamous Man enter ; that
be was not her Husband; that (he would never fee him; that the Son-in-hw oft'”
Great Kana, could not have fo low a Soul; that he was to remember,that being grafted
into fo llluftnous an Houfe, he was to imitate the Virtue of it ; and in a word that
he was cither to vanquilh, or to dye. A moment after fhe was of another humour ■ (h»
commands a Pile of Wood to be laid, that fhe might burn her felt,that they abus’d’he-
that her Husband muff needs be dead ; that it could not he otherwife. And a brie
while after this, (he was feen to change her countenance, to fall into paffion and to
break out into a thoufand reproaches againtt him. In fhort, (he remained thus tranfported
eight or nine days, without being able to refolve to fee her Husband, ’till at lali her Mo
thcr coming in, brought her in (ome degree to her felf, and comforted her a (luring
her, that as loon as the Raja King had but a little refrelh’d himfelf, he would raife another
Army, to fight Anreng-Zehe^ and repair his Honour at any rate.
By which ftory one may fee a pattern of the Courage of the Women in that Coun
trey: To which 1 could add fomething I have feen fome of them do, who burned
themfelves alive after the death of their Husbands; but we mud relerve this Difcourfe
for another place, where 1 (hall alfo fhew, that there is nothing which opinion prepof-
feffion, cuftom, hope, and the point of honour, &c. may not make Men do or fuffer
Vara having underftood what had palled at Eugenes, fell into that choler againft
Kafem Kan, that it was thought he would have cut ofl his Head, if he had been upon
the place. He was alfo tranfported againft Emir-JemU, as the Perfon that was the Lit
and principal caufe of the Misfortune, and who hadfurnilh’d with Men
Money, and Cannon. He is ready to kill his Son Mabmet Emir-Kan, and will fend his
Wife and Daughter to Bafar, or the Market-place of prollituted Women ; and’tis paft
doubt, that he would have done fome fuch thing, if with much art and
prudence, had not moderated the excefs of his paffion, in remonftrating to him that
Emir-Jernla had not fo little condud, nor fo great a friendlhip for Aureng-Zebe, ’as to
hazard, and in a manner to facrifice his Family, for the advancing of his Interelf; that
Aureng-Zebe muft needs have gulled and enfnared him, by his ufual artifice and cun
nmg.
As for Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakfbe, the happy foccefs of this firft Encounter did
o (well their hearts, and gave fuch Courage to their whole Army, that henceforth they
believed themfelves invincible, and capable to compafs any thing. Belides,
the more to animate his Soldiers, bragged openly, that he had'Thirty thoufand Mara/x
at his devotion in the Army of Vara ; and there was fomething in it, asappearedby
the fcquel. Mortd-Babgbe was for nothing but lighting, and would march with all dili
gence. But Aureng-Zebe reprefented to him, that it was neceffary the Army fhould re-
«e(h themfelves for fome time upon the Banks of this fweet River; that in the mean
tune he would write to all his Friends, and get a full and certain information of the (fate
w the Court, and of the condition of all Affairs. So that he marched not towards
till he had relied fome days, and after that he marched but (lowly , to inform
of ail, and to take his time and meafures.
„ / C p n , CC , rning Cbah ~J eha, h w hen he plainly faw the refolution of Aimng-Zzbz and Mo-
rjr - akche> and that there was no hope left to make them turn back, he was in fuch a
P^rp exity, that he knew not what to refolve, and forefeeing fome great calamity . he
would fain have hind red the M decifive Battel, for which he faw Vara preparing him-
pit vv,th great eagernefs. But what could he do to oppofe it ? He was yet too weak of
! 1S 1C j e ^> ai ‘h faw himfelf ftiil in the hands of Dara 0 whom, as 1 have faid he
M ^ not mu£ h • So that he found himfelf obliged to acquicfce in his Wil^and to com
mit