'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.' [‎44] (999/1024)

a horfe, and did nothing but run to and fro 5 to know the King’s pieafure
touching the fettlement of Trade. But the Nahal? either laugh’d at him
or took little notice of what he faid. For indeed by Bebers outward
appearance, and deportment, no man could make any other judgment
of him, but that he was a poor fpirited fellow, and one that knew not
what it was to live. For all the Europeans that travel into Perfia and the
Indies are always richly habited , nor would any of them keep Be her
company, who by his Habit look’d rather like a Footman, than a Depu
ty of a Royal Company of Trade. At length a whim took him to
makehimfelf a fuit of painted Calicut, after the Fm^Fafbion, the
like whereof had never been feen in the Country. the whole Suit not
Handing him in above 13 Livresznd 13 Sous. For the trimming of his
new Suit he took off the Ribbands of his old Cloaths, which he was two
days lathering, and fmoothing with a Taylers Goofe. When he had
got this rare Habit upon his back, he went to vifit theiV*^ who was
then attended by the Principal Lords of the Court. Who when they
faw him enter, fell all a gazing upon him, and ask’d one another whe
ther that Frangui were turn’d Faquir , or a Dervich of Hoffen Mamout
which they ufually call the ragged Saint. For you muft know, that all
the Faquirs or Derviches that are of this Order, never apparel themfelves
but with fuchrags as they pick up in theftreets, and if they meet with
any pieces better than other , they make of them a kind of Galoon to
trim the reft. They alio carry half Pikes, with a great company of
Tatters faften’d to the end of them, to make a ihew of their beggery. Be-
^/s Habit very much furpriz’d the Nahab y and all others that beheld
him fo ridiculoufly accoutei’d. As he pafs’d one morning by my win
dow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. , I bid him good morrow, telling him withal, that he look’d more
fpruce and gay than he usd to do. He reply’d , that he had reafon fo to
do, for that he had receivd Letters from Surat, by which he had advice,
that the Country people upon the Coaft of Gape St. John had decry’d
four Veffels out atSca, which they could not make to be either
or Hollanders, from whence he concluded that they were the Companies
(hips 5 and that he was going to the Nahab with the News. But I pre
vented him at that time,telling him that I had often obferv’d that rafcally
fort of people to come both to the Englijh and Hollanders,with fuch kind of
Intelligence, onpurpofe to get Money-, when indeed they had never
feen any fuch fight, and admonilhing him not to believe Reports upon
fuch flight foundations. I ask’d him what date his Letters bore? he
told me, thirty days ago. Then, hid I, if the difeovery had bin true,
the Nahab would have had notice of it in fourteen 5 and then he would
certainly have told you of it,or my felf 5 for it is but two days fincel took
my leave of him. Thereupon he took my counfel and refolv’d for Surat
in a few days.
Three days after that the Chirurgeon had given in his Bill for the
Cheft of Medicaments that he had loft among Beber’s Baggage, he was
fo touch’d in Confcience, that he fell fick, and dy’d in two days. Upon
his death-bed he ask’d pardon of God for the Cheat which he had con-
fen ted to, to ask 4000 Roupies for that which was really worth but four
hundred 5 200 of which he had receiv’d from the Charity of thef^-
guis, the reft upon the fale of a Horfe.
For my part, finding that Beber was refolv’d for Surat y I made what
haft I could out of Agra , to be quit of his company. But the fecond
day