'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.' [‎47] (718/1024)

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(tending there muft needs have been feme oflenfive Expreilions in thofe Ferfian Let
ters, or elfe the AmbafTador muft have done or faid foniething that difpleafed Aunng-
Zebe i becaufetwoor three days after he had diftnilTed him, he made a rumor to be
fpread abroad, that the AmbafTador had caufed the Ham-ftringsof the prefen ted Hor-
fes to be Cut) And the Ambaffador being yet upon the Frontiers, he made him return
all the Indian Slaves which he carried along wkh him, of which he had a prodigious
number.
Mean while, Aureng-Zebe was not fo much concern’d, nor troubled himfelf fo
much with this AmbafTador, as Cbah-Jeban, upon a like occafion, did with him, that
was fent to him from the great Cbah*Abbas. When the Ferfans are in the humor of
Rallying againft the Indians, they relate thefe three or four little Stories of them ;
They fay, That Chab-Jeban feeing that the CourtQiip and Promifes made to their Am-
baffador were not able to prevail with him, fo as to make him perform his Salute after
the Indian Mode, hedevifed this Artifice i he commanded to (hut the great Gate of
the Court of the Arnty, where he was to receive him, and to leave only open the
Wicket, through which one man could not pafs but very difficultly, by hooping and
holding down his Head, as the fafhion is, when one maketh an Indian Reverence, to
the end that it might be faid, he had made the AmbafTador put bimfelf in a pofture,
which was fomething lower than the Indian or Salute i but that that Ambaffa-
dor being aware of this trick, came in with his Back foremoft: And that Cbab-Jeban y
out of indignation to fee himfelf catch’d, told him , Eh Bed-baty , 1 bete fTretcb, doji
thou tbin\ thou comefi into a Stable of Ajfes, fetch or thou art ? And that the AmbafTador,
without any alteration , anfwer’d, Who would not thinly fo , feeing fetch a little
Door 2
Another ftory is this i That at a certain time Chah-Jehan taking ill fume coarfe and
fierce Anfwers return’d to him by the Ferfian Ambaffador, could not hold to tell him,
What, hath Chah-Abbas no other men at his Court, that he muft fend to me fitch a Fool at
thy felf 2 And that the Amhaffador anfwer’d, He hath many better and wifer than
me, but to fetch a King, fetch an Ambaffador. They add, That on a certain day Chah-
Jeban, who had made theAmbaffador to dine in his Prefence, and fought fome occa
fion to affront him, feeing that he was bufie in picking and gnawing of Bones, asked
him fmiling , Eh Eltchy-Gi, My Lord Ambaffador , What jhall the Vogt eat 2 And
that he anfwer’d readily,jfGcbo3/,that is,a Difh of PulfejwhicRis the food of the meaner
fort of People, and which he faw Chah-Jehan eat, becaufe he loved it.
They fay alfo. That Chah-Jehan once asked him, What he thought of his new Dehli
(which he was building) in comparifon of Hifpahan ? And that he anfwefd aloud,
and with an Oath, Billah, Billah, Hifpahan doth not come near the dujl of Dehli *, which
Cbab-Jehan took for a high Commendation, though the Ambaffador mocked him,be
caufe the duft is fo troublefomat Dehli.
Lafily, They relate that Chah-Jehan one day preffing him to tell him. What he
thought of the Grandeur of the Kings of compared to that of the Kings of
Ferfia 2 HeanfwerM , fhat, in his opinion, one could not better compare the Kings of In*
aia than to a large Moon of 15 or 16 days old, and thofe of Perfia, to a fmall Moon of two
or three days. And that this Anfwer did at firft pleafe Chah- Jehan, but that foon af
ter he perceived, that that Comparifon did him but little honour, the Ambaffador’s
fence being, that the Kings of Indoftan were decreafing, and thofe of Ferfia in-
creafing.
Whether thefe Points are fo commendable, and fuch marks of Wit, every one is
bee to judge, as he feeth caufe. My opinion is, That a difereet and refpe&ful Gra**
vity is much more becoming Ambaffadors, than Rallery and Roughnefs, efpecially,
'vhen they have to do with Kings, who will not be rallied with, witnefs an Accident
that befell this very Ambaffador j for Chah-Jehan was at length fo weary of him,and
is freedom, that he called him no otherwife than Fool j and one day gave fecret or
der, that when he ffiould enter into a pretty long and narrow Street, that is near the
ortrefs, to come to the Hall of the Affembly, they ffiould let loofe upon him an ill-
conditioned and fierce Elephant i and certainly, if the Ambafifador had not nimbly leapt
out of his Faleky, and, together with his dextrous Attendants, (hot fome Arrows in
to the Trunk of the Elephant, which forced him to turnback, he had been utterly
fpoiled. v