'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.' [‎34] (989/1024)

• afterwards a Prefent, which was a Shame both to the Nation and the
Company , that pretended to fuch great and high things 5 and endea
vour’d to fix an opinion of their Wealth and Grandeur among Strangers.
For they fent him only a Tin Cup Enamel’d , and eight little Gales of
Perfpe&ives, or Looking-Glaffes, the whole not amounting to above
40 Crowns. They alfo made much fuch another Prefent, but meaner
to the Mirzdteker , confifting of about a Dozen Pair of Gilt Sciflars
for Women. Wemuft fpeak the Truth : For they were not a little
laught at for their ridiculous Prefents, which were the Scorn and
Contempt of thofe that receiv'd them, when the Deputies were
gone.
To Father Raphael they prefented a Purfe, with 40 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , or Six
Hundred Crowns in it, believing that he would never accept of it*
and indeed he refus'd it with {corn 5 not a little angry with them , that
they fhould have fuch mean thoughts of him 3 as to believe him
Mercenary.
Two days after 5 the gave notice to the Father, that the King
had granted the their Demands 5 and had order’d every one of
them a Ca/aat, or a Veft-Royal, and in refpedlof Superiority, a Horfe
for Monfieur La/in. That the Kings Anfwer and the Grant were both
ready for the Dire&ors of the Company , according to their defire.
The King was then onward upon a journey to Afazandran ^ three
days Travel from Ifpahan, at one of his Palaces, call’d Tajahat. A
Pleafant Situation, in the mid’ff of a great Valley 3 fiiaded with Trees
and full of Villages.
The Ninth of came a Letter from the Nazar ^ to Father Ra
phael, fignifyiug the King's Pleafure, that both he and the Deputies
fhould repair to Tajabat with all fpeed. Thereupon the Father and they
made fuch haft, that in lefs than three days they got to Taj ah at , where
the order’d them to lye in the Houfe of an Armenian Renegado.
The King fent them immediately eight or ten bottles of Wine, with
four Gold Dilhes, full of lovely Fruits, and Tapiftries for their
Dining Room. But thefe Prefents occafion’d new Quarrels 5 For there
being two Fa&ions, and both living apart, there was a great difpute
who fliould have this prefent. Father Raphael, having done all
that poffible he could to reconcile the bufinefs, and not being able to
perfuade them, in a juft Paffion, bid them take their Swords and Piftols,
and go and decide the Quarrel in the Field. Till now, faid he, I have
done all I could to conceal your deteftable divifions from the Court,
which neverthelefs, isbut too well acquainted therewith : Is it your
defign to publifii your own Ignominy, and to make not only your /elves,
but the whole Nation of the French ridiculous to the Perfians ? At length
they were fo far reconcil'd , that one Room ferv’d them to Feed, and
con/equently the fame Furniture. For the Fathers reproofs had put
them a little out of Countenance.
. The Seventeenth of Ottober , the Mehemander came to the Deputies
Lodgings, and brought five Royal Vefts- The Richeft, which was of
Tiftiieof Gold, was for Monfieur Lalin^ the next, not altogether fo
rich, for Monfieur Boulaye- and the other three of a lower price, for
the Merchants • The value of the whole might amount to 600 Crowns,
for which the French Deputies moft generoufly gave the Officers that
brought them *5 or 30 Crowns, as a Gratuity. The Officers of the
Stable