"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." [‎٤] (١٠٢٤/٩٥٩)

his impatience was fuch, that after he had fray’d awhile, not finding
the other to come, he ripp’d up his own Bowels for very vexation.
Upon which the people crowding about him , ask’d him the reafon of
his killing himfelf^ to which they could draw no other anfwer but this
ex /cowardly Ratkal bds affronted, me. By and by the other comes, makes
way through the throng, and furpriz’d with what he beheld; Poor
Creature , laid he, thou need'ft not have doubted my being at good a* my word
this Dagger ffall affurethee of it: And fo faying, he kill’d himfelf upon
the place, and fell by the others fide.
There is no Nation under Heaven that fears Death lefsthan this, or
that is more enclin’d to cruelty. If any Prince or great Lord makes a
Feafr for his Friends, at the end of the Feaft he calls his principal Offi
cers , and asks ’em, if there be any that has fo much love for him as to
kill himfelf before the Guefts for his fake. Prefently there arifes a
difpute among them who fhali have the Honour; and who ever the
Prince is pleas’d to name , rips up his Belly with a Gric, which i$ a kind
of Dagger, the poynt whereof is Poyfon’d. This cuftom is alfo
practis’d upon the Death of their Mafters, or when they lay the Foun
dations of any Palace-, forthey are fo fuperftitious as to believe, that
thefe Victims are necefrary to render both the Owners of the Building ,
and the Habitation fortunate.
They puniffi all manner of Theft with Death. ’Tis alfo a capital
Crime among them to play for Money. Adultery is only puniffi J d in
the Women: But Coynage of falfe Money, fetting Houles on Fire,
Deflowring andRaviflfingof Virgins,are not only puniffi’d in the perfons
of the Criminals, but allb of thofe who are next of kin to them. The
Women live retir’d, and are very faithful to their Husbands. The
Emperour having put to Death one of the Lords of his Court, out of
hopesto.enjoy his Wife; flie fearing violence, befought the Emperour
to give her time to confider, which was granted for fome few days.
At the end whereof fhe ffiu't her felf up in a Room with her Children •*
and after ffie had delivered a Paper to one of her Servants to carry to the
Emperour, ihe let the Chamber a Fire, and burnt both her felf and her
Children. The Emperour met with nothing eife in the Paper but
reproaches of his Tyranny, and atteftations of joy from the Lady, that
ffie had the opportunity to Sacrifice her felf to the memory of her Huf-
band. Several other frories I have heard, which make me believe,
that this Nation is not uncapable of doing addons worthy z Roman
Vertue. V ... ;:
The Portugals were the firft people of Europe that difeover’d the Iflands
of C japcn. They were thrown upon the Coaft by a violent Storm, in
the year 1542 , and underftanding that there was great ft@re of Gold
and Silver in the Country, they return’d with a defoliation to fettle them-
lelves. The firft place where they thought to fix was neer
City, which Hands about four Leagues from the Sea: But becaufe there
■is but one Road, &nd that not very fecure neither for Shipping, they
remain d there not above five years. At length they took poflefrion of
a little forfaken 111 and call’d Kifma , which they peopl’d afterward’s 5
but fince the lafr Perfeeution of the Chriftians, the Portugals were forc'd
to abandon itdiaving no more Commerce with the Japonners. How the
Hollanders came to ered their Fadories there, I tail tell the Reader in
another part of this Relation.
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