'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.' [‎6] (961/1024)

up, that he was not only for continuing and upholding the Commerce
of his own 5 but excluding ail other Nations. Now, as I have already
obferv’d, the Portugds were the firfi: Traders, and the firft that propa
gated the Chriftian Religion in thofe parts- therefore it was that the
Chriftian Japomers would not Trade with any but the Vortugds, as
having known them longer, and finding them more true to their words.
This the Prefident obferv’d, and made it his bufinefs to render them
obnoxious at Court, and by vertue of his Prefents , engag’d the Gover-
noursof Provinces, and other great Lords, to favour his defign.
However, the Vortngds wanted neither friends nor confederates. And
though they were not in a condition to be lo liberal as the Prefident, yet
they made alhift to defend themfelves, and render his under-hand
Dealings ineffettual. Thereupon finding that thofe Tricks would
not take, he had recourfeto thefouleftof Calumnies ^ for he counter
feited a Letter written in the Porfuguefe Language, containing a difeo-
very of a defign of the Chriftian 'jApouticvs to have made a general In-
furre&ion, and a particular Confpiracy againft the perfon of the Em-
perour. This Letter he carry'd to a Lord of the Country, intowhofe
favour and confidence he had wrought himfelf, who prelently thought
it to be his duty to give intelligence of fo important a defign to the
Court. 1 ~ 4 f t .
The Prefident inform’d him by what accident the Letter came to his
hands, and gave an account of fueh circumftances, as made his Impo-
fture look with a probable countenance, relating, how that the Hoi-
Unders had taken a Portugd VefTel returning from Japon to Goa^ and that
the Holland Captain having taken this Letter among other Papers, open’d
it, and perceiving of what confequence it was, had fent an Expreis to
the Prefident to proceed as his prudence, and the affection of the Dutch
Company toward the Emperour fhould guide him.^ That the Fortugals,
who were but Subje&s to the Spaniards , had a pernicious Maxim, not to
fuffer any Religon but their own in any place where they had to do,
and that for their own ends they never fpar’d either the Liie or Liberty
of Man 5 that they thought it an acceptable Sacrifice to God, to cut the
Throats’of thofe whom they could not convert. Amdlaftly, that the
Hollanders were a people that accorded with all Nations and Religions,
and minded nothing but their Trade.
The Lord believ'd all thefe fraudulent Calumnies, and fent a Copy
of the Letter to the Emperour, the fubftance whereof was, That the
Spaniards in xho, Philippine Iflands , and the Vortugds in Japon, being m
confederacy with the Chriftians of the Country, had fent to the Gover-
nour of Goa to fend by a time prefix’d eight or ten Vefiels, with Men
and Arms, but efpecialiy a good number of Officers to command the
Revolters, for that then there would be a numerous Army ready, and
that they fhould eafily make themfelves Mafters of Japon.
The Portugals were then under the Dominion of the Spaniard, and
though they would fuffer no Spaniard in their Indian Acquifitions but
the Viceroy, yet feveral of the Religious Orders did flip into japon,
carried thither by a true and real zeal 5 yet this zeal, when once indih
erect, does as much mifehief as covetoufnefs it felf. The Father Path
lip, for fo they call the Jefuits in the Indies, by reafon that their Churcn
in Goa is dedicated to St. Paul • thefe Jefuits I fay, had made a P. ro
grefs, and gain’d great credit among the people, notwithUanding