'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.' [‎63] (734/1024)

Silk and Cotton Manufadiures, that are ufed in the Country, or tranfported to other"
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You may further obfefve, how that Gold and Silver circulating as it were upon the
Earth, comes at lad, in part, to be fwallow’d up in this Indian. For of that which
comes Out of Ammca, and is difperfed through the feveral Kingdoms of our Eume,
we knoWj that one part ts carried into Imky many ways, for the Commodities drawn
^ nce ’ 3 j j , anot !l7 P art ^ SCOnve y e< ^ by the way of Smyrna, for the
Silks afforded there: That all Turfy generally needs Coffee, which comes out of Hve-
man, or Happy Arabia, and is the common Drink of the Turks : That the fame Turkvzs
wdlas Hyeman and Perfia cannot be without the Commodities of India i and that thus
all thofe Countries are obh'ged to carry to over the Red-Sea, near Kabel-mandeU
and to Paffora the utmoft part of the Perfian-Gulfi and to tandar-Abbaff or Gomoron
near toOrmus, a part of thatGoId and Silver, that had been brought into their Coun-
VJ 5 X r thence tranfported into Indojlan, in Veffels, that yearly, in the feafon of the
Mounjons, come purpofely to thofe three famous Parts : That on the other hand all
thole Ships of India, whether they be Indian ones, or Dutch, or Enriifh, or PortumeCe
that every year tranfport Merchandife out of Indoftan to Pegu* Tanafferi, Siam, Ceilan
Achem, Macaffer, the Maldives, Mefambic, and other places, bring, back alfo much
Cold and Silver from all thofe Countries, which meets with the fame Deftiny that the
other doth: l hat of that quantity of Gold and Silver which the draw from
japan, 0 which is horcd with Mines ) a part alfo comes to be at length difcharged in
this Indofian : And that laftly, what is carried thither dire&ly by Sea, whether from
Portugal, England, or France, feldom comes back from thence but in Merchandife rbf*
reft remaining there, as the former.
I very well know, that it may be faid, that this needs Copper,Cloves Nut-
megs, Cinamon, Elephants, and fundry other things; which the Hollanders carry thi-
ther from japan, the Molucques, Ceilan, and Europe i as alfo that it hath occalion for
Lead, which in part, it is furniflfd with out of England > likewife for Scarlet, which ic
hath Iwm France : Moreover, that it ftands in need of a good number of Horfes it
being certain, that from the fide of Vsbec it receives yearly more than 2 500. That
out of Perjia alfo it is furnilhed with abundance of the fame j as alfo out of Ethiopia
Arabia, ^h^ Ports of Mobg, Baffora, and Bander-abbafy : Befides, that it needs that
noreor frelh Fruit, which comes thither from Samarkand, Ball-hear a, and Perfia as
Melons, Apples, Pears, and Grapes, that are {'pent at Dehli, and bought at great Rams
almoft all the Winter long * as well as dry Fruit, which are had there all the year long*
and come from the fame Countries, as Almonds, Piftaches, Nuts, Primes* Abricots’
Ratlins, and the like. And that laftly, it wants thofe little Sea-cockles of the Maldives
which ferve for common Coyn in Bengale, and in Tome other places i as alfo Amber-
gnece, carried thither from the faid Maldives and Mofambic, Rhinoceros-horns Ele
phants-teeth, Musk, China-difhes, Pearls of Baharen, and Tutucoury near Ceilan ^ and
1 know not of how many other things of this kind. 3
But all this makes not the Gold and Silver to go out of that Empire,becaufe the Mer
chants at their return freight their Ships with the Commodities of the Country, finding
a better account by fo doing, than if they (hould bring back Mony, fo that that him
^ t ^ at In ^°fl an proves, as we have faid, a kind of Abyfs for a great part of
the Gold and Silver of the World, which finds many ways to enter there, and almoff
none to iffue thence.
In a word, you may take notice, that this Great M»gol makes himfeif Heir of the
or Lords, and of the Manfeb-dars, or petty Lords, that are in his Pay j and
( which is of very great confequence ) that all the Lands of that Empire are his Pro-
priety, excepting fome Houfes and Gardens, which he giveth leave to his Subie&s to
leil, divide, 01 buy atnongft them, as they {hall think fit.
hefe are tne things, which fufficiently (how, both that there muff needs be a very
great fjore of Gold and Silver in Indojlan, though there be no Mines i and alfo that the
reat Mogol, the Soveraign of the fame, at leaff, of the beft part of it, hath immenfe
Revenues and Riches. .
t ot ^ er band, there are alfo many things to be obferved, which are a poife
- 0 . ” ^hes. The firft, that among thofe vaft tra&s of Rind there is much which
« nothing but fand and ileril Mountains, little Tilled or Peopled: That even of thofe
nat would be fertile, there is much, that is not ufed for want of Workmen , fome of
/. ^ * - which