'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.' [‎191] (520/1024)

Book III* Travelf in India.
any fuch defign, he puts them to death. And one of them had his head latelv
(truck off for his Ambition.
Thefe Bonz.es wear yellow, with a little red Cloth about their Wafts; like
a Girdle. Outwardly they are very modeft,and are never feen to be angry
About four in the morning, upon the tolling of their Bells, they rife to their
prayers, which they repeat again toward evening. There are fome days in
the year when they retire from all converfe, with men. Some of them live
by Alms * others have Houfes with good Revenues. While they wear the Ha
bit of they muft not marry ^ for if they do, they muft lay their Ha
bit afide. They are generally very ignorant, not knowing what they believe.
Yet they hold the tranfmigration of Souls into feveral Bodies. They are for
bid to kill any Creature ^ yet they will make no fcruple to eat what others
kill, or that which dies of it felf. They fay that the God of the Chriftians
and theirs were Brothers; but that theirs was the eldeft. If you ask them
where their God is, they fay, he vanifh’d away, and they know not where he
is.
The chief ftrength of the Kingdom is their Infantry,which is indifferent good *
the Soldiers are us’d to hardfhip, going all quite naked, except their private
parts; all the reft of their body, looking as if it had been cupt, is carv’d into
feveral lhapes of beaftsand flowers. When they have cut their skins, and
ftanch’d the blood, they rub the cut-work with fuch colours as they think
molt proper. So that afar off you would think they were clad in fome kind
of flower’d Satin or other; for the colours never rub out. Their Weapons
are Bows and Arrows, Pike and Musket, and an AzjigAy<t y or Staff between
five and fix foot long, with a long Iron Spike at the end, which they very
dextroufly dart at the Enemy. '
In the year 1665, there was at SUmz Neapolitan Jefrnte who was call’d
Father Thomas ; he caus’d the Town and the Kings Palace to be fortifi’d with
very good Bulwarks, according to Art; fpr which reafon the King gave him
leave to live in the City, where he has a Houfe and a little Church.
CHAP. XIX. ;
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Of the Kingdom ^/Macaflar; and the Emlaffadors which the
Hollanders fent into China.
JT H E Kingdom of Macajfar, otherwife call’d the JJle of Celebes, begins
at the fifteenth Degree of Southern Latitude. The heats are exceflive
all the day ; but the nights are temperate enough. And for the Soil, it is
very fertile; but the people have not the art of building. The Capital City
bears the name of the Kingdom, and is fituated upon the Sea. The Port is f ree 5
for the Veflels that bring great quantities of goods from the Adjacent I Hands,
pay no Cuftoms. The Illanders have a cuftom to poyfon their Arrows; and
the molt dangerous poyfon which they ufe, is the juice of certain Trees in the
hiand of Borneo ; which they will temper fo as to work fwift or flow, as they
pieafe. They hold that the King has only the fecret Receit to take away the
force of it; who boafts that he has the molt effectual poyfon in the world,
which there is no remedy can prevent.
One day an Englijh man in heat of blood had kill’d one of the Kings of
Mtcajfars Subjects; and though the King had pardon’d him, yet both Englijh 7
olUnders, and Fortugals fearing if the Englijh man fhould go unpunifh’d, left
-^ an ders (hould revenge themfelves upon fome of them, befought the King
put him to death ; which with much ado being confented to, the King un-
wiiling t° put Him to a lingring death,and defirous to (hew the effect of his poyfon,
j^olv a to fhoot the Criminal himfelf; whereupon he took a long Trunk, and
ol him exactly into the great Toe of the right foot, the place particularly
imeiat. Two Chirurgeons, one an Englijh man, and the otter a Hollander,
pro-