'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.' [‎80] (943/1024)

A New and Particular Relation of the
G H A Pi VIH.
How the Hollanders fent to declare War againtt the
Perfians, and of the ill Succefs of their Fleet,
r ' hn £ 2 no ill A: 3 ‘ii^I 70 'oi- fl :/. |{;
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M ilch about the fame time Charles Conftant was fent
by the Company with a Fleet of feven great
Ships, to declare War againft the (perfeans, in cafe
they would not comply with the J)utcb in reference to their
Silk Trade and their Cuftoms. Being arriv'd at Ormus he
left the Fleet there, and haften'd to Iftahan, and from thence
to Casbin, where then the King was. But his Embaffie had
not that efFedt as he expefted : For he thought that the King
would have been frighted at the node of a Fleet of feven
great Ships that lay at Ormus, but he was miftaken. For
the Perfean knew he need not fend any Force againft the
faid Fleet, in regard it would be ruin'd without: It being
^mpofiible for our Europeans to flay at Ormm in the heat of
Somer, as well by reafon of the Heat, as for want of Water ;
for there is no good Water at Ormus> nor upon any part of
theCoaftof Perfia, but what is kept in Cifterns, and that
full of Worms. 'Tis true, that upon the Coafl of Arabia
there are Wells of good Water, but when the Arabians dif
cover any Ships upon the Coail, they comedown all in
Arms to defend their Wells; for it is their profit to fell their
Water, and that at a very dear rate, to thole that are in ne-
ceflity.
Now the King and Council not being ignorant, that the
longer the Fleet lay at Onnus, the worfe would be its con
dition, would not give the Commander his firft Audience
in two moneths. During which time there died above half
the Men; for from lix a clock in the morning till four in the
afternoon , if any of the Seamen went to take a little Air
upon the Deck, he prefently fell down dead. The Admi
ral was to blame not to make provifion of Water being
bound for flich a place as Ormus.
The Commander Conjlant did not take the right courfe
to effect his bufinefs, by publilhing what he intended to pre
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