'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.' [‎55] (726/1024)

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become fo potent and confiderable, that he married one of the Kings Daughters •, be
ing unwilling that it ihould be faid, that a man of fo mean Extradion as this Bafiian
was, had done fucb a Mailer-piece. But it may be faid on this occaiion, that this is
not much to be wondred at, confidering that the Portuguefes in the Indies by fuch a
condud have divers times been faulty on the like occaiions, in Japan, in Pegu, in
Tthiopia, and other places j not to mention, that by this way, and that perhaps by a
juft Divine chailifement (as they all frankly confefs themfelvesj) they are become a
prey to their Enemies, and fallen fo low in the Indies, that I know not whether they
wiii ever recover there-, whereas formerly, before they were corrupted by vice and
degenerated through pleafure, they made all others tremble in thofe partsi toraf-
much as then they were brave and generous men, zealous for the Chriftian Religion,
confiderable for gallant exploits and for riches j all the Indian Kings fecking 'their
friendfhip.
Bdides this, the fame Pyrates feized at that time on the lile of Sondiva, an advan
tageous Poll to command a part of the Mouth oi Ganges: In which Ule a certain
Augujlin Frier, a very famous man, a&ed the King for many years, having taken a
courfe, God knows how, to rid himfelf of the Commander of that place.
Moreover, the fame Robbers took Snltan-Sujah at Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. ,a , to carry him away in
their Galeaffes to Kalian, as we related above, and found means to .open his Coffers
and to rob him of good (lore of Jewels, which afterwards were fecretly, and at a
very cheap rate, fold in Rak^in, mod of them being fallen into the hands of people
that had no skill in them, and afterwards into the hands of the Hollanders , and
others, who knew how to buy them up quickly, making thqfe fellows believe , that
they were foft Diamonds, and that they would pay them according to the degrees of
their, hard nefs.
Laftly, They are they that for many years have given exercife to the Great Mogol
in Bengak i having obliged him there to keep always Garrifons every where upon the
Paffes, and a great Militia, and a Fleet alfo of Galeaffes to oppofe their courfes,
and who, notwithftandingall this, have made fhift to make ftrange devalfations, and
often to enter far into the Country, and to laugh at all the Souldiery of the Mogols t
in regard they were become fo bold, and fo dextrous at their Weapons, and fo skilful
in piloting their Galeaffes, that four or five of them duck not to fet upon fourteen or
fifteen Mogolians, which they alfo a&ually worded, and took or run aground. And
upon thefe Pyrates Cbab hefi-kgn cad his eyes as foon as he came dnto Beng. le,
taking a refolution to deliver the Country of this plague of people, that had fo long
waded it i and defigning afterwards to pafs on, and to attack the King of Rahan, ac
cording to the order of Aurenge-Zebe, who at any price had a mind to revenge the
blood of Sultan-Sujab, and all his Family, that had been fo cruelly handled, and to
teach that Barbarian, how the Blood Royal was to be regarded and ebeemed on any
occafion whatfoever: Behold now with what dexterity Cbab hejl-hja carrierh on this
defign!
Knowing that ffis impoffible topafs any Cavalry by Land, no not lo much as any
Infantry, from Bengale into Rakan, becaufe of the many channels and rivers upon the
Frontiers-, and alfo that on the other fide, thofe Pyrates of Cbatigon, whom we jud
now were (peaking of, would be powerful enough to hinder him from tranfporting
them by Sea j he thought upon this experiment, viz. to engage the Hollanders in his
defign. He therefore fent a kind of Ambaffador to Batavia , empowering him to
treat upon certain Conditions, with the General of that Company, joyntly to fub-
due the whole Kingdom of Rahgin j as formerly Cbab-Abbas fubdued that of Ormus,
in conjunction with the Englijh. 1 he General of Batavia feeing the thing to be
polfible, and that it was a means more and more to break the Portuguefes in the Indies,
and that it would turn to a very good account to the Company, difpatch’d away
two Men of War for Bengale, to favour the tranfportation of -the Mogolian Troops in
Ipight of thofe Pyrates. But obferve what Cbab-beft-kjn did before thefe Men of War
arrived : He equipped agreat number of Galeaffes, and many large Veffels to tranfport
the Army i threatned the Pyrates, utterly to fpoil and ruin themi acquainted them
with the defign of Aureng-Zebe upon that a potent Army of the Dutch was near,
that they fhould think on themfelves and their families, if they were wife j and in a
word, if they would abandon the fervice of the King of , and take that of
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