'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.' [‎7] (962/1024)

their continual peiTecutions, according as the Ilords ol tfe'Co^'ntsry
verc vveii 01 ill affedted towards therh. Their number therefore
encreas d, and the new Converts had thisadvafitage,.tha$lihc.yjentli^h’d
them!eives by Trading with the PoringaU , who had ii^ade pohtive
Agreement not to Trade with the Bw&i. , ThisdprovQj^d
againd tliem, and the multitude of the Chriilians io fan ^ugm^nte'd
the Empeioui s jealoufies and fears 5 that in a .foort time .they prodUiC'd
the efFeds of open rage and cruelty.-
The jejmts had converted to the Faith a great Lord of thq .Kingdom,
who hv d mo ft c o m m on 1 y a t Bug sn, in the Illandof Xitm v a per] bn of
great Intereft and Power in the I {land. He hid four SbtWy tAMer of
which liv’d with him, and following his Example,, had
Catholick Faith. The Father was Baptis’d by the name of i
the eldeft: of the two was call’d Framfc , and the youngelpC/^?:^;> the
two eldeft: Sons were at Court in great favour with the Emperour. The
younger of the two that had embrac’d the. Chriftian Bieligiorii^ ad,
di^ed himfelf wholly; to the ftudy of the Scripture , and retir’d with
the ‘Jefuzts to their Seminary. His Example had wrought with a great
number of young Lords, and as he was eloquent befic|s§., fee wa? of
great ufe to the leftists in preaching the Gofpel, and reclaiming the people
from the groffnefs of their Errors.
The Japonaers are naturally endow’d with a noble mind;, andgreat
inclination to Learning 5 fo that there is nothing wanting in that FTajtioi*
but able Teachers. Not but that they have Dolors of thek own > |he
Dairy's Court is full of them 5 where they prefcrve the Annals of tfrek
Country, and pretend that Printing and Artillery were in uft among
them before they were known m Europe. From this Court come all
their Books, in regard the perfons that attend upon this Prince apply
themfelves only to their Studies. It is reported, that they learnt all tftefe
things by their frequent Commerce with thecfowefes , and that they are
alfo originally defeended from them. And in truth, the greateft Pro
vince ol the Iftand of Niphon is call’d Qjgmto y according, to the name
of the Sea-Coaft part of china, where lies the greateft Traffick be
tween the Japomers znd chznefes. Moreover, if there be any credit to
be given to the chine [e Htftories, they fay it was but a I’m all part of their
vaft Empire, which extended it felf from North toSouth 56 Degrees:
of Latitude, from the Frozen Sea to the Equinodial Line , ^ing, boun
ded to the Weft by the Cafyian Sea 5 and extending E aft ward over all
the Southern America to New spam.
Father Thomas Barr , a Portugmfe y has often told me when I was at
jgra , a capital City of the Great Mogul \ where the Jefuits have a very
fair Houfe, that this and feverai other young Lords improv’d
themfelves fo far in ftx or feven years, that they were as Learned as their
Makers thcmfelves , and that they were more zealous in converting
tnofe of their Nation. Now the lefrits at that time had no Houfe for
thelnftrudion of Youth and Profelytes, and therefore they deftr’d this
young Lord to lend them one of his. Thereupon he.having four very
fair ones, with great Revenues belonging to them, gave that which
was neareft to the City to his Converters, A while after, the youngefo
of his Sons fell fick , and was carried to this Houle for the Aufo fake >
where he recover’d by the care of the Fathers, and the Prayers of the
Chriftians * but his Father did not long enjoy the pleafure of fo great