'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.' [‎18] (689/1024)

and took Horfe. But I know not whether there pafTed one quarter of an hour, but he
perceived the Treachery of Calil ullah-Kan^ and repented himfelf extremely of the
great fault he had committed. He looks about him, he feeketh, he asketh where he
is i he faith, he is a Traitor, he will'kill him. But the perfidious Villain is by this
time at a good diftarice;•> theoccafion is loll. Would it be bdieved, that as foon as the
Army perceived Vara to be no more upon the Elephant, they imagined that there was
Treafon, that Vara was killed j and all were frruck with fuch a terror, that every
o,ne thought on nothing, but how to.efcape the hands of Aumg-Zebe^ and tofave him
felf? Whatlhall 1 fay? All the Army disbands and flyeth. A fudden and ft range re
volution! He that law himfelf juit now Vidorious, finds himfelf in a few moments
vanquilhed, abandoned, and obliged to fly himfelf to fave his life. Aureng-Zebe, by.
holding out firm a quarter of an hour upon his Elephant, feeth the Crown of Indojim
upon his Head and Vara for haying comedown a little too foon, feeth himfelf preci
pitated from the Throne, and the mod unfortunate Prince of the World. Thus For--
tune taketh pleafure, to make the gaio.orlofs of a Battel, and the decifion of a great
Empire, depend upon a nothing.
Thde great and prodigious Armies, his true, do fometimes great things i but when
once terror feifeth, and diforder comes among them, what means of flopping the Com
motion ? 3 Tis like a great Puver broke through its Dams i. it mud overrun all, without
a Remedy. Whence it is, that as often as 1 confider the condition of fuch Armies, ddli-
tute of good order, and marching like flocks of Sheep, 1 perfwade my felf, that, if in
thefe parts one might lee an Army of live and twenty thoufan'd men, of thefe old
Troops of Flanders^ under the condudt of Monfeur le Prince, or Monfimr de Jurmie, I
doubt not at all, but they would trample underfoot all thofe Ai^ntcs,hqw,numerous fo-
ever they were. And this it is, that now maketh me not find it any longer ftrange or in
credible, what we are told of ten thoufand Greeks' ? and of fifty .thdufand Men of Alex
ander, overcoming fix or feven hundred thoufand Men of Vmm i ( if' it be true, that
(We were fo many, and that the Hidorian did not reckon the Servants, and all thofe
numbers of Mem which were to follow the Army, to furnifh it with Eorrage, Cattle,
Corn, and all other neceflaries. ) Bear only the fivd brunt, which would be no very
difficult thing for us to do s and behold, they are all adonifhed : Or, do like Alexander,
fet vigoroufly upon one place, if that hold not out, (" which will be very hard for
them to do ) you may be fure the work is done i all the red prefently take fright and
Eight together.
Aureng-Zebe, encouraged by fuch a wonderful fuccefs, is not wanting to turn every
done,i to employ skill, dexterity, fubtilty, craft, courage, to profit by all the Advan
tages, which fo favourable an occafion puts into his hands. Cald-ullah-Kan is prefect!y
with him, offering him his Service,' and all the Troops he could be Maher of. He, on
his fide, wants not words of thanks and acknowledgments, nor a thoufand fair Pro-
mi fes : But he was very cautious to receive him in his own name? he carried him pre-
.fently and prefented him to Morad-Bakche, who, as we may ealily think, received him
with open Arms Aureng-Zebe in the mean time congratulating and prailing Morad-bag-
cbe, for having fought fo valiantly, and aferibing to him all the honour of the Victory i
treating him with the title of King and Majeffy before Caiil-ullah-Kan, giving him un
common refpedi:, and doing fubmildons to him becoming a Subject and Servant. In the
interim, he labours night and day for himfelf, he writeth round about to all the Otn-
rahs, making fure to day of one, and next day of another. Chab-hefir Kan, his Uncle,
the great and old Enemy of Vara, by reafon of an Affront he had received from, him,
did the fame for him on his part •, and as he is the Perfoa who writeth belt and fubril-
left of the Empire of Indojiau, fo he contributed not a little by-his Cabals to the ad
vancement of the Adairs of Aureng-Zebe, making ffrong Parties every where againft
Vara.
In the mean time let us dill obferve the artifice and diffimalation ot Aureng-Zebe,■
Nothing of what he doth, treateth, promifeth, is for himfelf, or in his own Name?
he hath ff ill ( for foot h ) the defign of living as a Fabire : all is for Morad- Bakcbe, hs
he that commands i Aureng-Zebe doth nothing i his Morad-Bak^be doth all, his he that
is dcligned to be King.
As for the unhappy Vara, becomes witly all fpeed to Agra, in a defperate condition,
and not daring to go fee CM-ye/^;? 5 remembring,doubtkfs,thefe fevere words which he
' J let