'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.' [‎36] (991/1024)

Neither would L’Eftoile permit his Son 5 to whom he allow'd 20 Tomms
a Year , to return to the Court, choofing rather to fend him to Bander
with the other three. Whereupon, the Seventeenth of November^ they
fet forward upon their Journey.
DuPont, without doubt, was the moft folid and judicious of all the
Merchants, but he took it fo to heart, to fee the dif-union among them,
that he fell into a languifhing Difeafe at Ifpahan , and dy’d not far from
S chi rat.
As for Lalin and Manage , they left Ispahan the Fifteenth of Decern-
her, and arriv’d at Court foon after, where they lay a long time neg-
le&ed , their Divifions ftill continuing, which made them contempti
ble to the Perfians , and ruin'd the Affairs of the Company. One
Evening, the Nazar fent them a Flow’r, advifing them, that as that
Elow’r never chang’d 5 fo it became them not to vary in their Refolutions.
After a long and tedious ftay , Manage obtain’d fome few impertinent
Alterations in his Patent 5 and permiflion to make Wine at Sclnrus, as
the Engliflj , Hollanders , and Portuguefes had.
With thefe Alterations they both leave the Court 5 and Manage
would certainly have accompany’d Lalin , who had an intention to lee
Araevil ^ Tauris, and Kom , had he not been folicited to return to Zal
pha, by a Young D alii ah , that had fmittenhis heart. For by the means
of anold Woman, the Mother of one of his Lacqueys, he had de
bauch’d a young Armenian Virgin, whom he kept privately to himfelf;
yet not fo privately , butthenoife thereof was quickly fpread all over
Zidpha. Alhhe Armenians were fcandaliz’d at it, and lent to feize the
Baud, to punilhher, by their Laws, as fhe deferv’d. Mariage adver
tiz’d thereof, flew out of his Lodging to her affiftance, and to prote<5l
her from Juft ice. But feeing the People in an uproar, and finding the
Stones to flye too thick about his Ears, he was forc’d to mind his own
fafety, and to feekfor fhelter in the next Houle where he could be ad
mitted. But the Bufinefs was not fo put up, for the Armenians , won-
dring to fee that a Deputy of an Illuftrious Company, who was come
to the Court of Perfia upon fo ferious an Affair, fhould do fo much wrong
to his Nation, by publickly appearing info fhameful an A&ion, and fo
unworthy of a Perfon in public Employment, that they refolv’d to profe-
cute him all manner of ways. They were refolv’d, to that end, to have
fent into Prance zx\ Exprefs , to have Complain d to the King of his ill
Management and bad Behaviour. But Manage at length reffor’d the
^Armenian Girl which he had kept clofe lock'd up 5 after which time the
AmeniAtos look’d upon him but with fcorn and contempt.
Lalin being return’d to Ijpahan , departed thence the 22th of Novem-
her, 1666. for Bander , with a Refolution, to Travel into the Indies.
But he fell lick at Bander , and thinking to return to Schiras , for the
Air’s fake, he dy’d by the way at a Village call’d Bend-Ali. A Gen
tleman endow d with noble Qualities, and whole Gentile and Generous
behaviour was an honour to his Nation.
The Thirtieth of the fame 3 Manage alfo left ijpahan, and
departed for Bander, with one Father Mercier, a jefuite, whom he
took along with him as his Almoner, and Lems V Eftoile , his Kalmaehi,
or Interpreter: There he flay’d four Months for the arrival of the Ships,
^ noneGo rahig, and the heats encreafing, he refolv’d to fpend the
reft of the Year at Schiras, As for the jej'uit, and young V Efimle,
becaufe