'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.' [‎46] (717/1024)

The Hifiory of the Empire
But to relurns after all thefe Ambafladots, which we have fpoken of, there came
at lad news* that the Ambaffador of Perfia was upon the Frontiers. The Perfian
Omrahs * that are at the fervice of the Mogof fpred a rumor that he came for affairs
of great importance i though intelligent perfons much doubted of a Gommiffion of
that nature, confidering that the time of great conjunctures was paired, and thatthofe
Omrabf^ and the other Perfians did what they did, rather to make a Ihow, than for
any thing elfe. Mean time, on the day of the Entry, this Ambaffador was received
with all poffible refpect: The Bazars, through which he palfed, were all new-paint
ed, and the Cavalry attending on the way for above the length of a whole League.
Many OmraFs accompanied him with Mufick, Tymbals and Trumpets, and whenhe
entred into theFortrefs, or the Palace of the King, the Guns went off. Aumg-Zebe
received him with much civility, and was content he Ihould make his Addrefs to him
after the Per/i0» mode, receiving alfo, without any fcruple, from his hands
the Letters of his King i which, out of refpeft, he lifted up even to his head, and after
wards read them with a grave and ferious countenance: Which done, he caufed an
embroider’d Veft to be brought, together with a richTurbant and Girdle, command
ing it to be put on him in his prefence. A little after, it was intimated to him,that he
might order his Prefent to be brought in, which confifted of five and twenty as hand*
fome Horfes as ever I faw, led, and cover’d with embroider’d trapings i and of twenty
very ftately and lufty Camels, as big as Elephants : Moreover, of a good number of
Boxes, faidto be full of moft excellent Rofe-water i and of a certain diltilled water,
very precious, and efteemed highly cordial i befides, there were difplayed five or fijfc
very rich and very large Tapifferies,'and fome embroider’d pieces exceeding noble;
wrought in fmall flowers, fofine and delicate, that I know not whether in a]\ Europe
any fuch can be met with. To all this were added four Damaskiri’d Swords, with
as many Poynards, all cover’d with Jewels > as alfo five or fix Harnaflcs of Horfes,
which were much efteem’d, being alfo very fine and rich, the fluff being raifed with
rich Embroidery fet with fmall Pearls, and very fair Turcoifes of the old Rock.
It was obferv’d, that Aureng-Zebe beheld this Prefent very attentively > that he ad
mired the beauty and rarity of every piece, and that feveral times he extolled the Ge-
nerofity of the King of Perfia *, affigning to the Ambaffador a place among his chief
Omrahs, And after he had entertained him a while with a difeourfe about the incon*
veniencies and hardfhips of his Voyage, he difmift him, and made inflance, that he
fliould come every day to fee him.
During the four or five Months that the Ambaffador ftaid at Debit, he was always
Splendidly treated at Aureng-Zebe's charge ; and the greateft Omrahs prefented him one
after another j and at laft he was very honourably difmifTed: For Anreng-Zebe had
him apparelled with another richor Veft, to which he added confiderable
prefents for himfelf, referving thofe he intended for his King, ’till he fhould fend an
Ambaffador exprefly j which fome time after he did.
Notwithftanding all thefe teftimonies of honour and refpedf which Aureng-Zebe had
fhew’d to this Ambaffador, the fame Perfians, above fpoken of, gave out, that their
King had fenfibly reproached him in his Letters, with the Death o(Dara, and the
Imprifonment of Cbab-Jehan, as a&ions unworthy of a Brother, and a Son* and a
Mufulman \ and that he had alfo hit him with the word Alem-Guire, or Conquerour
of the World, which Aureng-Zebe had caufed to be engraven on his Coyn. But’tis
hard to believe,that the King of Perfia (hould do any fuch thing to provoke fuch a Vi-
diorious Prince,fince Per/w is not in a condition to enter into a War with Indoflan j 1 am
rather apt to believe, that Perfia hath work enough to keep Kandahar on the fide of \
Indofian, and the Frontiers on the fide ofTurky: Its Forces and Riches are known > it
produceth not always fuch great Kings as the Chah-Abbas , Valiant, Intelligent, and
Politick, knowing to make ufe of every thing, and to do much with fmall expences."
Ifit w 7 ere in a condition of undertaking any thing againft Indo(lan, or really fenfible of
Piety and the Mufal-Man Faith, why was it that in thefe laft troubles and Civil
Wars, which continued fo long in the fat fti 11 and looked on, when
Dara, Cban-Jehan, Sultan Sujah, and perhaps the Governourof Caboul defired their
afliftance s and they might with no very great Army, nor great expences have feized
on the faireft part India, beginning from the Kingdom of O&w/, wnto the River
Indus, and beyond it, and fo made themfdves Umpires of all things t yet notwith
ftanding