'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.' [‎30] (985/1024)

fliould partake of the King’s favour as the other two had done. Where
upon the King fentforthe other three Deputies, and having difcours’d
awhile with BouUye , while Father Raphael interpreted between them,
in alhort while he difmilVd them all again, but Father Raphael, with
whom he enter’d into a more jocular Dilcourfe then the former, of the
Colours, Black and White, and of the Beauty of the Women,
the King confeffing that naturally he did not love Brown Women, the
White completion being more agreeable to him, as being that com
plexion which alone compos’d the Beauty of Women. The Father
modeftly made his anfwer, that Beauty confifted only in fancy- for
that the Perfians lov’d thick anddiull Eyebrows, which were not at all
eheem’d in Prance, Then the King cafting his Eyes upon the Box
wherein, the King of Letter lay, he took otat the Letter, and
obferving it to be a fmall piece of Parchment, and not fuch a one as he
had receiv’d from feveral Princes, and Potentates of Europe, nor indeed
like thofe which the Jefttits had brought him formerly from the King
of France himfelf, in a fair piece of Parchment, with a large Seal deep
cut, he gave evident Demonftrationsof his contempt of it, and was
about to have thrown it away. Father Raphael perceiv’d him to be out
of humour, to whom the King in purfuance of his diflike, faid , Ra
phael, Inever receive open Letters without a Seal, take it, and let me
fee it no more, for I do not believe it comes from fo great a King as the
King of France , and at the fame time made him a lign to retire. He
durlt do no otherwife then take the Letter, and fo returning to his place,
he told both Lalin and Mariage what had pafs’d in his Difcourfe be
tween him and the King. Two hours, after that, were fpentin be
holding the Mummeries of their common Dancers, a paftime very
ufual in Perjia, Which being over, the King fent again for Lalin,
Mariage , and the Father ^ and after fome few Queftions, to whith they
gave thebeft Anfwers they could, he again difmifs’d both the Deputies,
retaining only Father Raphael with him. The Father, then taking his
opportunity, told the King, that he had always obferv’d it to be the
cuftom of the Athemadoulet to caufe the Letters, which the European
Princes fent His Majelfy, to be interpreted in his prefence. And
therefore, added the Father, I befeech Your Majefty to permit me to
give the King of Prance’sLzttzt to Khz Athemadoulet , to the end, it may
be truly interpreted to him according to ufual cuftom. Thereupon the
King made a fign to the Father to give it him, and glad he was to be fo
rid of it. The Father obferving the King in a good humour, fpoke to
him in behalf of the other three Deputies, that he would be pleas’d to
admit them to be fent for a fecond time, in regard the others had been
fent for three times. But the King told him, it was enough for him to
fpeak to the Gentlemen, let his Minifters talk with the Merchants.
The Father being then difmifs’d, he fent for alone, for whom he
fhew’d himfelf to have a very great kindnefs and affedion 5 and at the
fame time commanded the Nazar to bring him the next day, together
with Yzxhzx Raphael , and the Genevefe , who was retain’d in his
Service, to Court, for that he intended to be merry with them. Then
he went on,and told Lalin,that fo foon as the French Ships were arriv’d,he
would fend an Embaftadour to the King of France , and make a ftridt
Alliance with him. Lalin reply’d, that His Majefty of France defir’d
nothing more. Why then, reply’d the King, is not my Alliancefuffi-
, cient