'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.' [‎53] (724/1024)

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(boner than ufually* and they being exceffive in thofe parts, and overflowing all the
Countrey, except fuch Villages as hand on raifed ground, the Emir was much em-
baraffed. For the Raja King made his people of the Mountains come down from all .pam
thereabout, and to carry away all the provifions of the Field j whereby the£/»z> 5 s Ar
my ( as rich as 5 twas ) before the end of the rains fell into great heights, without
being able to go forward or backward. It could not advance, by reafon of the Moun
tains very difficult to pafs, and continually pelier’d with great Rains j nor retreat be-
caufe of the like Rains and deep wayes i the Raja King alfo having caufed the way to be
digged up as far as to Cbamdara: So that the Emir was forced to remain in that
wretched condition during the whole time of the Rain i after which, when he found
his Army diftafted, tired out, and half ftarved, he was neceffitated'to give over the
Defign he had of advancing, and to return the fame way he was come. But this Re
treat was made with fo much pains, and fb great inconveniencies, by reafon of the
dirt, the want of Vi&uals, and the purfuit of the falling on the R.ear,that every
body (but he) that had not known how to remedy the diforder of fuch a March, nor
had the patience to be fometimes five or fix hours at one pafTage to make the Soul-
diery get over it without confufion, would have utterly perifh’d, himfelf, Army, and
all j yet he, notwithftanding all thefe difficulties and obftacles, made a fhift to come
back with great honour and vaft riches. He defign’d to return thither again the next
year, and to purfue his undertaking, fuppofing that Azo^ which he had fortified, and
where he left a flrong Garrifon, would be able to hold out the reft of the year againft
the Raja King . But he was no fooner arrived there , but Fluxes began to rage in his
Army : Neither had himfelf a body of Steel more than the reft i he fell ftek and died,
whereby Fortune ended the juftapprehenfions of Aureng-Zebe. I fay, the Jujl appre-
henfions; for there was none of thofe that knew this great man, and the ftate of the
affairs of Indoftan^ who did not fay, Tis this day that Aureng-Zebe is King of Bengdle.
And himfelf could not forbear to exprefs feme fuch thing j for he publickly fa id to
Mahmet-Emir-kan--> You have loft your Father, and I the greateft and the moft dan
gerous Friend I had j yet notwithftanding he comforted this Son, and withal affured
him, that he would ever be a Father to him. And whereas ’twas thought, that he
would at leaft cut off his Salary, and make Inquifition into hisTreafury, he confirmed
him in his Office of Bakchit, augmented his Penfion to a thoufand Rupies a month,
and left him Heir of all the Eftate of his Father, although the Cuftom of the Country
empower’d him to feizc on all.
The third is concerning Cbah-be(l-kan y whom Aureng-Zebe made firft Governour
of Agra^ when he went out to the Battel of Kadjom againft Sultan Sujah i and after
ward, Governour and General of the Army in Decan j and at laft, after the death of
Emir-Jemla^ Governour and General of the Army in Bengale , together with the
charge of Mirul Omrah which Emir-Jemla had poffeffed. This Cbab-bejRkan is he,
whom in our Hiftory we have mention’d as Uncle to Aureng-Zebe, and one that hath
fo much contributed to his happinefs by his eloquent and skilful pen, as well as by
bis intrigues and counfels. It would be injurious to his Renown alfo, to be filent
of the important enterprife, which he undertook prefently when he entred upon his
Government i and that the rather, becaufe Emir-Jemla, whether out of Policy, or
for anothercaufe, had no mind to tempt him , as alfo, becaufe the particularities,
which I am going to relate, will ffiew not only the paffed and prefent ftate of the
Kingdoms of Bengale and Raban, which hitherto hath not been well deferibed to us
by any j but alfo fome other things that are worth knowing.
To the end therefore that the importance of Cbah-heft-tyiri’s attempt may be well
underftood, and a good Idea be had of what paffeth about the Gulf of Bengalee we
are to know, that thefe many years there have always been in the Kingdom of Rakan
°r Moy, fome Portuguefes, and with them a great number of their Cbriftian Slaves, and
other Erangm, gather’d from all parts, ‘that was the refuge of the Run-aways
from Goa* Ceil an. Cochin, Malague, and all thofe other places, which the Portuguefes
formerly held in the Indies j and they were fuch as had abandoned their Monafteries,
men that had been twice or thrice Married, Murtherers: In a word, fuch as had de-
fervedthe Pvope, were moft welcome and moft efteem’d there, leading in that Coun
try a life that was very deteftable , and altogether unworthy of Chriftians , info-
much that they impunely butchered and poifoned one another, and affaftinared their
own