'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.' [‎26] (879/1024)

A New and Particular Relation of the
forth with Artificial Fire-works 3 in making whereof thefe
People are exquifite > after which they have their Come
dies ? with Machines, and change of Scenes in every Ad.
Befides this, their Adors have a prodigious memory , fo
that let the part be never fo long, they never make ufe of
Prompters to affifl them, as we do in Europe.
They that will learn the Mathematkks , muft make their
own Inftruments themfelves, and Ipend five years in this
ftudy. They are examin'd every year , and if they fail
to anfvver Inch Queftions as are ask'd them, for the firft
four they are pardon'd; but at the end of the five years,
if upon the grand Examination, they fail to anfwer the
Queftions demanded them by the Tanfis , they are utterly
degraded 5 whereas if they fatisfie their Examiners, they
are permitted the Name and Dignity of Voucarn After
thirteen years thus fpent, before they can arrive to
the degree of a Tanfi, they muft fpend four years more in
learning to write and read the Charader tofucha
certain number of Words. For the life of a Man would
not fiiffice to learn to write and read the Cbinefe quite
through. The reafon is, becaufe that as to this particu
lar , it is not in China as in other Nations, where one Word
is compos'd of leveral Letters. The Cbinefes for every
Word have a different Figure , all which Figures are very
numerous, as you may eafily conjedure* By the by let
me tell you , that thefe Figures are made with fmall Pen
cils, and that the Cbinefes make tile of a certain Ink, which is
made up into a Pafte, and fo moiften'd in Water as you make
ufe of it. They have alio another fort of Colour for certain
Words, But they cannot make ule of Pens, as our Euro
peans , which are made of Quits - nor of thofe of other
Eaftern People, which are made of fmall redifh brown
Reeds, the beft of which grow in certain Merfihes in
the Kingdom of Tegu and Jracban.
But to return to the Students of Tuncpuin , they are alfo
oblig'd to underftand the Laws and Cuftoms of the Chinefes,
as well as their oWn •, and the laft four years being at an
end, the laft and great Examination is made in the great
place, within the Enclofure of the Palace of Ttmquin, which
is a ftately Marble ftrudure. There the King isprefent*
tvith the Princes and great Lords of the Courts the Mande-