'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.' [‎45] (1000/1024)

"Negotiation of the Deputies, &c.
day after my departure, having fet up my tent by a Rivers fide, juft as' I
was going to dinner I fpy’d Beber coming, not could I get rid of him
afterwards till I came to Surat. So that we were forc’d to travel toge
ther 5 though he committed a thoufand Impertinencies by the way.
Among the reft , he put one trick upon the Chief of the Cherajfs or
Bankers at Bramfour, not to be palled over in filence.
In regard the ways were bad > and that he had but one pitiful weak
Chariot 5 and four weak Boys, which with the help of Oxen, were
hardly ftrong enough to help him out when he ftiick in the mire , he fel-
dom came to his journeys end till two or three hours after me.Now upon
the report that ran of the French Ihips being feen out at Sea , and
the general belief that Beber would be one of the Principal Truftees
of the Company, feveral, as I faid before > courted him, and fought to
engage his Friendship. Being arriv’d at Br am four , the Chief of the
Cher off's ^ attended by a dozen of his fervants came to vilit us. Upon the
firft acquaintance^^ told him that he wanted a Fallaqui'ti to go to Su-
rat, whereupon the Chera.ff civ\Wy offered him his, and caus’d it to be
trimm’d up for his better accommodation. Beber thought that trimming
would have bin finilht in one day, when indeed it requir’d three or four.
The next day I order’d my Coach to be got ready, and order’d my PaU
Uquin to be carri’d away. Beber^ who verily believ’d that the Compa
ny's {hips were already in the Road of Surat , began to curfe arid banri
the Cheraff, who prefently came to him and endeavour’d to appeafe hirri
with good words. He told him, it could be no prejudice to him to ftay
a day or two * for by that time the Roads would be better, and he might
travel the fafter. But Beber , being tranfported with pafliori , Was fo
far from taking the cheraffs reafons for fatisfa&iori, that fnatching a
Cudgel out of his Waggoners hands that ftood next to him, he gave
the C three or four good Licks crofs the Ihoulders. The Merchants
and other people that were in the Inn, wereftrangely furpriz’d atfucha
piece of rudenefs, and ran out prelently , fome with Stones, and others
with Cudgels, making a hideous noife, and crying out, that they had
never feen the like. They took it for a moft enormous Crime, toftrike
the Chief of the cheraffs , above fourfcore years old , whofe very age
ought to have bin protection enough from fuch an Affront. Good luck
it was for Beber, after fuch aralh aCtion committed , that I was well
known at Brampour, having been there ten or twelve times, and in fome
of my Travels having dealt for above 200000 Roupies. There were
none of the cheraffs with whom I had not dealt by Letters of Exchange,
and very few Merchants or Brokers who had not had fome bufinefs ot
other upon my accompt. They cry’d out, fpeaking of me 5 See there the
Monfieur Franqui , with whom we have dealt fo often , yet never heard
him give us an ill word. Another good chance he had to meet there
the Cout ev all's Lieutenant, and three Merchants of Surat • and thus be
tween us, having diiingag’d Beber out of the Brabble wherein he had
fofillily bemir’dhimfeft, we made him get into my Coach, andfopackt
him out of the City. I follow’d him two hours after : for had he ftaid
longer in Brawpour ^ I believe the Faquirs and Derviches would have beat
outhis brains. For he was no fooner gone, but a great number of that
fort of rabble came to the Inn, crying out, Where was that Dog of i.
Cafer that had beaten the Cheraff. Thereupon , feeing the Multitude
encreafe, I ftoleoutof the Town, without faying a word, and rid on