'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.' [‎38] (709/1024)

The Hifloryof the Late Revolution
not taken their Letters from their own hands, I believe if they had been required to
kifs the ground, and even todo fomething of a lower nature, they would have com
plied with it. 'Tis true, it would have beep in vain, if they had ddired to make no
other Salute, but that of their own Countrey, and to deliver to the King their Letters
with their own hands j for that belongs only to the Ambaffadors of Perfia, nor have
thefe this favour granted them,but with much difficulty.
They hay’d above four months at M/i, w hat diligence foever they could ufeto be
difpatch’d, which did incommode them very much ^ for they fell almoft all fick, and
even Lome of them dyed, becaufethey were not. accuftomed to fuch heats as are in In-
doftan, or rather becaufe they were fordid, and kept a very ill Diet. 1 know not whe
ther there be a more avaricious and uncleanly Nation than they are. They laid up the
Money which the King had appointed them for their maintenance, and lived a very mi-
ferable life, altogether unworthy of Ambaffadors i yet they were difmifTed with great
honour : The King, in the prefence of all the Onirahs, presented each of them with
two rich Ser-apahs, and gave order that Eight thoufand Rupks (hon'd be carried to
their Lodgings, which amounted to near Two th.oufand Crowns each. He alfo gave
them for Prefents to the Kans their Mailers, very handfom Ser-apabsjioye of thericheft
and bed wrought Embroideries, a good quantity of fine Cloth,and Silk-fluffs,wrought
with Gold and Silver, and fome Tapeflries, and two Poynards fet about with precious
ftones.
During their flay, I went thrice to fee them, being prefented to them as aPhyfician
by one of my Friends, that was Son of an Vsbec x that had made his Fortune in that
Court. 1 had a defign to have learned fomething in particular of their Countrey, but y
I found them fo ignorant, that they knew not fo much as the Confines of their State,
much lefs could they inform me of any thing concerning the Tartars that have conquer’d
China of fete years: In ffiort, they told me nothing that I knew not before. I had
once the CuricKty to dine with them, which liberty l obtained eafily enough. They
are not Men of much Ceremony ? it was a very extraordinary Meal for fuch a one as I,
it being meet Horfe-f^efti i yet tor all this I got my Dinner with them •, there was a
certain Ragou, which I thought paffable: And I was obliged to exprefs a liking of fo
exquifite a Difh, which they fo much lull after. During Dinner, there was ailrange
filence i they were very bufie in carrying in with their whole hands, for they know
not what a Spoon is i but after that this Horfe-ildh had wrought in their ftomachs,
they began to talk, and then they would perfwade me, they were the mod dextrous
at Bows and Arrows, and the flrongefl Men in the World. They call’d for Bows,which
are much bigger than thofe of Indcfian, and would lay a wager, to pierce an Ox or
my Horfe through and through. Then they proceeded to commend the (irength and
valor of their Women, which they defcribed to me quite otherwife than the Amazons^
telling me very wonderful dories of them, efpecially one, which would be admirable
indeed, if 1 could relate it with-aTrfrtarf*«Eloquence,astheydid : They told me, that
at the time when Aureng-Zebe tva&z War in their Countrey, a Party of Twenty five or
Thirty Indian Horfemen came to fall upon a fmall Village i whilft they plundred, and
tyed all thofe whom they met with to make them Slaves,an old Woman faid to them,
Children^ be not fo mifchievoas, my Daughter is not far off, (he 'will be here very fliortty, re
treat if you be wife, you are undone if foe light upon you. They laughed at the old Wo
man, and her Advice,- and continued to load, to tye, and to carry away her felfj but
they were not gone half a Mile, but this old Woman, looking often backward, made
a great out-cry of Joy, perceiving her Daughter coming after her on Horfe-back i and
prefently this generous She Tartar, mounted on a furious Horfe, her Row and Arrows
hanging at her fide, called to them at a didance, that die was yet willing to give them
their Lives, if they would carry back to the Village all they had taken, and then with
draw without any noife. The Advipe of this young Woman affeded them as little as
that of her old Mother i but they were foon adonifh’d, when they found her let die at
them in a moment three or four great Arrows, which druck as many of their Men to
the ground, which forced them to fall to their Quivers alfo. But die kept her felt at
that didance from them, that none of them could reach her. She laughed at all their
Effort, and at all their Arrows, knowing how to attack them at the length of her
Bow, and to take her meafure from thedrengthof her Arm, which was of another
temper than theirs: So that after die had killed half of them with her Arrows, and