'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.' [‎30] (701/1024)

The Hiftoryof the Late Revolution
When thefe Women heard this fad News ( which was at the break of day, as I well
remember ) they broke out upon a fudden into fuch grange cryes and lamentations
that they forced tears from ones Eyes. And now behold all was in an unexpreHibk
confulion : Every one looks upon his Neighbor, and no body knows what to do , or
what will become of him. Soon after we law Vara come forth, half dead, now fpeak-
ing to one, then another, even to the meandt Soldiers. He feeth allonilh’d , and
ready to abandon him. What counfel ? whither can he go ? he mult begone inllant-
ly. You may judge of the extremity he muft needs be in, by this fmall accident I am
going to mention. Of three great Oxen of Guzaratte^ which 1 had for my Chariot
one died the Night before, another was dying, and the third was tyred out, ( for we
had been forced to march for three days together, almolt night and day, in an intole
rable heat and dull: ) Whatever Vara could fay or command, whether he alledged it
Was for himfelf, or for one of his Women that was hurt in her Leg, or for me i he
could not poifibly procure forme, whetl erOx, or Camel, or Horfe: So that he was
obliged, to my good fortune, to leave me there. I faw him march away, and that
with tears in his Eyes, accompanied with four or five hundred Cavaliers at molt, and
with two Elephants, that were faid to be laden with Gold and Silver i and 1 heard them
fay, that they were to take their March towards Tatabakar i for he had no other Game
to play, though even that feem’d in a manner impoffible, conlidering the fmall number
of People left him, and the great fandy Defarts to be waded through in the hotteft
feafon, mod of them without water fit to drink. And indeed mod of thofe that fol-
low’d him, and even divers of his Women, did there peridi, either of drought, or
the unwholfom waters, or the tirefom ways and ill food i or ladly, becaufe dripped by
the XmlUs above-mention’d. Yet notwithdanding all this, Vara made hard (hid to
get to the Raja King Katcbe > unhappy even herein, that he peridi’d not himfelf in this
March. v f
This Raja King at fird gave him a very good Reception, even fofaras to promife him
adidance with all his Forces, provided he would give his Daughter in marriage to his
Son. But Jeffeigne foon wrought as much with this Raja King ^ as he had done with Jef-
fomfeigne ; fo that Vara one day feeing the kindnefs of this Barbarian, cooled upon a
fudden, and that confequently his Perfon was in danger there,he betakes himfelf to the
Purfuit of his Expedition to Tatabakar.
To relate how I got away from thofe Robbers, the Roullis^ in what manner I moved
them to companion, how I faved the bed part of my fmall Treafure, how we became
good Friends by the means of my Profeffion of Pbyfick, my Servants (perplexed as
well as my fdf ) fwearingthat 1 was the greated Phylician of the World, and that the
People of Vara, at their going away, had ill treated me, and taken from irie all my
bed things: How, after having kept me with them feven or eight days, they had fo
much kindnefs and generofity, as to lend me an Ox, and to condudf me fo far, that I
was in fight ot Amadevad: And ladly, how from thence after fome days I returned to
Vehh, having lighted on an occafion to go with a certain Omrab palling thither, in
which Journey 1 met from time to time, on the way, with Carkaffes of Men , Ele
phants, Oxen, Horfes, and Camels, the remainder of that unfortunate Army of Vara.
Thefe are things, 1 fay, I mud not infid upon to deferibe them.
Whild Vara advanced towards Tatabakar, the War continues in Bengale, and much
lenger than was believed, Sultan Sujah putting forth his utmod, and playing his lad
Game againd Emir-Jemla : Yet this did not much trouble Aureng-7;ebe, who knew
twas a great way between Bengals and Agra^, and was fufficiently convinced of the pru
dence and valor of Emir-Jemla. That which difquieted him much more was, that he
{aw Soliman Chekgnb fo .near ( for from Agra to the Mountains Tis but eight clays
Journey ) whom he could not mader,and who perpetually alarm’d him by the rumors
that went continually about, as if he were coming down the Mountains with the Ra
ja. Tis certainly very hard to draw him thence : But behold how he manages the
matter to compafs it.
He maketh the Raja King Jeffeigne write one Letter after another to the Raji of Serenaguer,
promifing him very great things, if he would furrender Soliman Cbekoub to him, and
menacing War at the fame time, if he fhould obdinatcly keep him. The Raja King an-
fwers, L bat be rvould ratber lofe bit Ejlate, than do fo unworthy an A ft ion. And' Aureng-
Zebe, feeing his refolution, taketh the Field, and marcheth diredfly to die foot of the
Hills,