'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.' [‎15] (686/1024)

of the Empire of the M O G O L.
~~ 7 ~ 7 ~TZii This aood old Man was ready to melt in tears, when he embraced him;
S failed not to reprefent to him, with a very grave countenance: Well, T>jra
r llt Ann ait refolved to follow thine own Will, Go,God bids thee, but remember well
(incetnoua ^ nn th $ atu l ta^ heed of ever coming my Prefence.
i! Mi rtnaTe no’ gfeaTtaprdhon upon him t he goeth forth briskly, takcth Horfc, and
But tws nw p h R; Tcbembel, which is about twenty miles from Agra ;
rfnrt hed hS, expeding his Enemy. But the fubtile and crafty Fokire, who
good Spies, and People that gave him intelligence of all, and who knew that
Tpise was there very difficult, took good heed to attempt the forcmg it. He came
h n himfelf near it,fo that from the Camp of Vara one might difcover his Tents.
r^hheinthe mean time ? He inveigles a certain Rebel of Rf, called Cfe,-
Bl f r ts him richly, and promifeth him a thoufand tine things, it he would let him
^ (■/thorough his Territories, that fo he might go with fpeed to gam a certain place,
where he knew that theRiver might be paired on foot with eafe. Chmpu agvccth, and
if f own accord, that he would himfelf attend him, and fhew him the way
tlfouah the Woods and Hills of hisCountrey. Aureng-Zebe raifed his Camp the fame
tl ! r R & jfKnnt anv noife, leaving fome of his Tents to amufe Vara^ud marching night
, tha he was almoft as foon on the other fide of the River as
PiMCOttW have notice of it. W hich obliged Vara to abaylon the River there and to
f , ,ik his Fortifications, and to follow his Enemy, who, he was told did advance
C ' u „,f r'illpcnce towards Agra, to gain the River of Gemna, and there without
Wlt wf and at his eafe, to enjoy the water, to fortifie, and to fix himfelf well, and fo
trouble, h ^ he encampec | j s but hve Leagues from Agra, it was
f ° P frZC7saJo»wer and now Fateabad, which is to fay, of A little
encamp there, nigh the Bank of the fame River, between
^The'fwo 1 IS w«ftheffbtween three and four days in fight of one another,
■u . ulnni Mean time Cbab- Jeban wrote feveral Letters to Vara, that Soilman
without tight! g. / precipitate t that he fhould come near
Chekmb wss fortifie himfelf ’till he came. But Vara anfwered,
^ d c , V ^ n , a e davs^werc paffed,he would bring to him Aureng-Zebe and Morad-Bakcbe
S h“foot7?o dowl-th them what he fhould think fit. And without expecting
^ i hr ke^an at that very hour to put his Army in Battel-Array.
^Lifaced in theFront all his Cannon, canting them to be tyed the one to the other
H. placed in tn n ,ir a „ e t0 t he Cavalry. Behind thefe Peeces of Cannon, he
with Chains, o P ^ ber of light Camels, on the forepart of the Bodies,
placed alfo front- wife a great n f & of a dou bi e Mufquef, a Man fitting
whereof they ^ e ”r a a bk to charge and d.fcharge without lighting,
on the hmd-part of * c J of the Mu ^ ueteets . ot the r£ ft of the Ar-
BehindthefeCamds ft wit hBows and Arrows, ( asordinar.ly
tr.y which ch efly fo nt White Men, Mahumetans, grangers , as Perfians,
<ae the Moguls, th « , ; rw i t haSword, and a kind of Halt-pike, as com-
rmks, Arabians, and ^ Qf a ii t htfe I fay, there were made three different Bodies.
rf l Tw .ttl committed to Calil-uUab-Kan, with thirty thoufand under
The right Wing made Great Bakghis ,that is,Great Matter of the Cavalry, m
his Command , w ' hc 7 j ,L riva , afterwards mv^h, who voluntarily refigned
away, highly
this Ofiice feeing hat he was Authorit of Chab j eha n. The left Wing was
* «, mm* * «, .*« Captain, ,.g,.l» w,,h
theZlaja ^EpE^E^um^^et^nd’Mor^d-'Bakshe put alfo their Army almoft into
On the other iiae 3 Aureng ^ n&irahr they had hid
L r ^ To . m the midh of the! roops ot iomtumra^
the fameOrder > except tnaun <4^ \A/av md Art of Emir-Jem-
fotnefmallField-Peeces» which was, as was laid, after the y
\ a h d r^lvmadfufoof any more Art, than what hath been now related V only they
They hard’y made ufo ot y Banner, which is a kind of Granado fattened to
St S, (a. though ih, Cavalry, and wind, mm*mm*
Horfes, and even hurts and kilt, fomethms. , th»ir Arrows with marvellous
All this Cavalry turns about very eahly, and they draw thur Arrows w.rn m ^