'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.' [‎36] (707/1024)

36 The Hiflory of the Late Revolution, &c.
taken the fame day he fled. It may well be thought, that he defended himfelf with
as much courage as was poflible. He killed fo many of thofe Barbarians, that it will
f carce be believed, but he was fo overpow’red by the multitude of purfuers, that he
was obliged to quit the Combat. Sultan Banque^ who was not fo far advanced as his
Father, defended him alfo like a Lion but at length, being all bloody of the wounds
by flones poured upon him from all fides, he'wasfeized on,and carried away, with his
two little Brothers, his Sifters, and Mother.
As to the Perfon of Sultan Sujalt himfelf, all what could be learnt of it, is this:
That he, with one Woman, one Eunuch, and two other perfons,got up to the top of
the Mountains that he received a wound in his Head by a ftone, which ftruck him
down, but yet he rofe again -, the Eunuch having wound his Head about with his
Turbant, and that they efcaped through the midft of the Woods.
I have heard the Relation three or four other manner of ways , even by thofe per
forms that were upon the place. Some did affure, that he had been found among the
dead, but was not well known : And I have feen a Letter of the Chief of the Dutch
Fadfory, confirming this. So that his difficult enough to know aright what is be
come him. And this it is,which hath adminiftred ground to thofe fo frequent Alarms
given us afterwards at Debit : For at one time it was rumored, that he was arrived
at Maflipatan, to joyn with the Kings of and Fifapour i another time it was
related for certain, that he had paffed in light of Suratte with two Ships, bearing
the Red Colours, which the King of or the King of Siam had given him } by
and by, that he was in Perfia^ and had been feen in Cbiros ^ and loon after in Kandahar
ready to enter into the Kingdom of Cahoul it felf. Aureng-Zebe one day faid fmiling,
that Sultan Sujab was at\al\ become an or Pilgrim. And at this very day there
.are abundance of perfons who maintain that he is in Perfta, returned from Conftantittople,
whence he is faid to have brought with him much Money. But that which confirms
more than enough, that there is no ground for any of thefe reports, is that Letter of
the Hollanders j and that an Eunuch of his, with whom I travelled from Bengale to Ma-
Jlipatan, as alfo the Great Mailer of his Artillery i whom I faw in the Service of the
Kingof Go/teta, have allured me, that he is no more in being, though they made
difficulty to fay any more concerning him - , as alfo, that our French Merchants, that
lately came out of Perfia and from Hijpaban^when I was yet at Vehlf had in thofe parts
heard no news at all of him-, befides that, I have heard that a while after his Defeat,
his Sword and Poynard had been found: So that ’tis credible, that if he was not
killed upon the place, he foon dyed afterwards, and was the prey of fome Robbers,
or tygers, or Elephants, of which the Forrefts of that Country are full. However it
be, after this laft Adfion his whole Family was put inPrifon, Wives, and Children,
where they were treated rudely enough i yet fome time after they were fet at more
liberty, and they received a milder entertainment: And then the King called for the
eldeft Daughter, whom he married.
Whilft this wasdoing, fome Servants of Sultan Basque, joyned with divers of thofe
Mahumetans which I have mentioned, went to plot another Confpiracy like the firft.
But the day appointed for it being come., one of the Confpirators, being half drunk,
began too foon to break out. Concerning this alfo I have heard forty different rela
tions, fo that 5 tis very hard to know the truth of it. That which is undoubted is this,
that the King was at length fo exafperated againft this unfortunate Family of Sujab,
that he commanded it fihould be quite rooted out. Neither did there remain any one
of it, that was not put to death, fave that Daughter which the King had made his
Wife. Sultan Banque^ and his Brothers, had their Heads cut off with blunt Axes j
and the Women were mured up, where they dyed of hunger and mifery.
And thus endeth this War, which the lull of Pieigning had kindled among thofe
four Brothers, after it had lafted five or fix years, from 1655, or thereabout, to 166a
or 166 1 -, which left Aureng-Zebe in the peaceable poffeilionof this puifTant Empire.
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