'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.' [‎73] (744/1024)

garlf) and fo deep in debt, as thofe new Comers, 'and that confequently they do not
always tyrannize over the people with fo much cruelty j even apprehending, left they
(hould run away to the Rajas } which yet falls out very often,
Tis alfo true, that in Perfid the Governments are not fo frequently nor fo publickly
fold asin Turky i the Sons of the Governors alfo fucceedihg often enough to their Fa
thers i which is alfo the caufe, that the people there is often not fo ill treated as in
Turky, and occafions withal, that there is more politenefs, and that evenfome there
arethataddi&themfelves to ftudy; But all that is really but a flight matter i fhofe three
States otTurky, Perfia and Indojian, forafmuch as they have all three taken away the
Meum and Tmm as to Land, and propriety of Poftcffions ( which is the foundation of
whatever is good and regular in the World ) cannot but very near refemble one ano
ther: they have the fame defedt, they muft at laft, fooner or later, needs fall into the
fame inconveniencies, which are the neceffary confequences of it, viz. Tyranny, Ruine
and Defolation.
Far be it therefore, that our Monarchs of Europe fhould thus be Proprietors of all
the Lands which their Subjedls poffefs. Their Kingdoms would^e very far from be
ing fo well cultivated and peopled, fo well built, fo rich, fo polite and flouriftiing as
we fee them. Our Kings are other wife rich and powerful i and we muft avow that
we are much better and moire royally ferved. There would be Kings of Dcfarts and
Solitudes, of Beggars and fuch as thofe are whom I have been represent
ing •, who, becaufe they will have all, at laft lofe all j and who, becaufe they will
make themfelves too rich, at length find themfelves without riches, or, at leaft, very
far from that which they covet after, out of their blind Ambition and Paflion, of be
ing more abfolute than the Laws of God and Nature do permit. For, where would be
thofe Princes, thofe Prelates, thofe Nobles, thofe rich Citizens, and great Merchants?
and thofe famous Artizans, thofe Towns of Pari*, Lyms^ Ihouloufe^ Rouen, London, and
fp many others ? Where would be that infinite number of Burroughs and Villages, all
thofe fair Country-houfes and Fields, and Hillocks, tilled and maintained with fo much
Induftry, Care and Labour? And where would confequer^tly be all thofe va'ft Revenue^
drawn thence, which at laft enrich the Subjedls and the Sovereign both ? We Should
find the great Cities, and the great Boroughs rendred inhabitable, becaufe of the ill
Air, and to fall to ruine without any bodies taking care of repairing them i the Hil
locks abandoned, and the Fields overfpread with the Bufties, or filled with peftilential
Marifhes, as hath been already intimated.
A word to our dear and experienc’d Travellers: They would not find thofe Fair con-
veniencies of Travelling > they would be obliged to carry all things with them,like the
Bohemians ? and all thofe good Inns, for example, that are found between Paris and
Lyons, would be like ten or twelve wretched Caravans-ferrahs, that is, great Barns,rai-
fed and paved, fuch as our Pont-neuf is, where hundreds of men are found pel-mel to
gether with their Horfes, Mules and Camels, where one is ftifled with heat in Summer,
and ftarved of cold in Winter, if it were not for the breathing of thofe Animals, that
warm the place a little.
But it will be faid, we fee fome States, where the Meum and ’Tmm is not, f as for
example, that of the Grand Seignior, vvhichvve know better than any, without go
ing fo far as the Indies ) that do not only fubfift, but are alfo very powerful, and en-
creafe daily.
Tis true,that that State of the Gr.Seignior,oi fuch a prodigious Extent as it is,having
fo vaft a quantity of Lands, the Soil of which is fo excellent, that it cannot be deftroyed
but very difficultly, and in a long time, is yet rich and populous > but it is certain alfo^
that if it were cultivated and peopled proportionably fo ours, ( which it would be, if
there were propriety among theSubjedfs throughout) it would be a quite different
thing *, it would have people enough to raife fuch prodigious Armies as in old times,
and rich enough to maintain them. We have travelled through almoft all the parts of
its we havefeen how ftrangely it is ruined and unpeopled s and how in the Capital
City there now need three whole months to raife five or fix thoufand men. We know
alfo, what it would have come to ere this, if it had not been for the great number of
Chriftian Slaves that are brought into it from all Parts. And no doubt but that, if the
fame Government were continued there for a number of years, that State would de-*
ftroy it felf, atid at laft, fall it by its own Weaknefs, as it feems that already it is hard
ly maintained but only by that means, I mean, by the frequent change of Governors *
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