'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.' [‎58] (921/1024)

A New and Particular li elation of the
There was in the chief Fort belonging to the Hollanders a
young man, imployed there as an under Fablor, who being
Wild and extravaganj:, was put out oi his place and made a
Souldier. He not able to undergo that milerable coiirfe 0 f
life, relblved with himfeif rather to die, than live in that
mean condition. Thereupon having at feveral opportuni
ties made a (Lift to make up a little Pack of what bethought
was moft fit for the Mountainiers of me ifland^ he watch'd
his time and Hole out of the Forty and took his way direilly
toward the Mountains. With thefe Highlanders he liv'd
four years, in which time having learnt the Trade and Lan
guage of the Countrey, he ventur'd to return to the Holland
ers again, who received him kindly, as being willing to
underhand the Government of the People, and by what
means they might traffick with them. Whereupon the young
man made them this Relation.
As for the Government of the People he Paid, that over
every fix Villages there was an Overleer with four Counci
lors, wToadminifter juftice, and punifli the finalleft Theft
with Death. The Men are crucified 5 the Women are laid
along upon a thick Beam of Wood, and then with a Scimi
tar their Bodies' are divided into three parts. The Men are
lb puniflFd for Theft or Murde^ and the Women for Theft
or Adultery. If it be a Pety Larceny, not above the value
of a Shilling, they give them an hundred LalTies with a
Whip, and bum them in the Cheek. They that believe
rhemlelvesto heunjuftly dealt with, whether in Civil or
Criminal Caufe, enter their Appeal to go to the North Eaft
part of the Ifland, in which divifion of the Ifiand there (lands
a City by the Sea-fide, where he that commands all the
Highlanders refides. At the end of our Moneth of March
feveral of thefe Highlanders refort to this City, elpeciaily
the Merchants, who carry along with them all their whofe
Stock that they had hoarded together the year before in
Morns of Oxen, Harts, Bufulo's, and Raw Hides y and then
return again at the end of April, bringing back in reairn of
their Commodities Japon and China Stuffs, Clothes, and
Linen of the fameCountrey, and Gold and r Silver Japonefe
Money, of various Coyns and Value. He told them alfo,
that he believed that in the Mountains neat the Sea, there
are certain Mines of Gold and Silver, or fome River where
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