"مجموعات لرحلات عبر تركيا إلى بلاد فارس، وجزر الهند الشرقية. تقدم تقريراً عن الوضع الحالي لهذه الدول، وكذلك الرواية الكاملة لحرب السنوات الخمس بين أورنكزيب وإخوته في حياة والدهم، بشأن الخلافة. والرحلة البحرية التي قام بها سلطان الامبراطورية المغولية الأكبر (أورنكزيب) مع جيشه من دلهي إلى لاهور، ومن لاهور إلى بيمبر، ومنها إلى مملكة كشمير، والتي يطلق عليها المغول جنة جزر الهند. كما تحتوي أيضاً على سرد لمملكة اليابان وتونكين، وعن سلوكياتهم الخاصة وتجارتهم. يضاف إليها وصفاً جديداً إلى سراي السيجنيور الأكبر، وكذلك لكافة الممالك التي تضم البحر الأسود وبحر قزوين، والتي كان يسافر إليها مونسير تافيرنييه بيرنييه، وغيره من الرجال العظام." [‎٣] (١٠٢٤/١٤)

MfWwaiaMgAid
Where he gloves a brief Relation of his the
befi parts 0/Europe as far as Conftantinople.
F the effe<5l of Education may be liken’d to a fecoad
Birth, I may truly fay, that I came into the World
with a defire to travel. The daily difcourfes which fe«
verai Learned men had with my Father upon Geogra
phical fubjedis, which my Father had the reputation
of underftanding very well, and to which, though v\ rv
young, I was with much delighf attentive, inipix'd u
betimes with a defign to fee fome part of thole CountrieSjWhich were reprt
fented to me in the Maps, from which I never could keep off my Eves*
By two and twenty years of Age,therefore I had feen the faireft Regions of
Europe, France, England E\\z Low Countries,Gtrmany, Switzerland, Poland 9
Hungary and Italy ; and I fpeak indifferently w^eli the Languages mofl
neceffary and moft generally fpoken.
My firft faiiy was into England, where at that time Reigned King
ames ; from thence I paisd into Flanders to lee Antwerp, my Father’s
Native Country, and fo into the Low Countries, where my inelinatiori
to travel became the ftronger, by reafon of the great Concourfc of Stran
gers which I met at that crouded thither from all parts o
the World 1
Having feen wnat w r as mofl confiderable in the united Provii ce* >
I^ pafsd into Germany, and when I came to Etorimbergh, by the way of
Frankfort and Aufpurgh, the noife of the Armies that were marching
into Bohemia to retake Prague, inftilFd into me a delire to go to the
\Vars, where I might learn fomething, that might,be uleful to me in the
feries of my travels. I was not above a days journey from Normlergf$.
when I met a Colonel of Horfe, whofb name was Hans Brener >> the
Son of Philip Brener, QoMtxnonic of Vienna, who engag'd metof ow
him into Bohemia, Sometime after I bore the fame Colonel comp ny
to I i erina, who prefen ted me to the Governour of Raah , his ! ! ncie,
then Viceroy oiHungary alfo ; who receiv’d me into his Family as one
oi his Pages, for it is a ufual thing in Germany for Gentlencns Sons
to ferye in that quality ’till, five and twenty years of age, and feldom
to quit that lervice, till they have a Commiffion for a Cornet, or
Enfigns place. Four years and a half I ferv’d the Viceroy, when the.
Prince of Mantua came to Vienna , to engage the perour l. certain
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