'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎63] (84/448)

I '
The Moguls Pilgrimage.EaJlAndia. <5>
fion; Having intrufted that important Garrifon with Zimet P ad ft aw > a Captain of £c-
hars Army formerly, but fledtothe Radgee upon difcontent ^ Zimct makes many in-roads
into Gujurat, to let Echar know how little he valued his force in thofe quarters. Echar
glad of theoccafion, haftens with fifty thoufand Horfe againft him. Some months he
Ipent in befieging this place*, but fo fruitlefly, that he rather attempts the conqueft an
unufual way, undermining the Fort, and to the terrour ofthe befieged, blows the trains
up with Powder ^ caufing fuch a breach, as himfelf and twenty thoufand men immedi
ately entred pel-mel, with fuch hafte that the Rebel perceiving treaty of no value
gathering in one his Family confumed himfelf and them in flames, to prevent the tor
tures provided for him by Ecbar and Mardont his enraged Mafter. In this fort this fa
mous Fort was taken, which Aladin by twelve years fiege could not do; A vidory fo
great, that Ecbar caufes it to be expreft in fculpture at Agra. He had no time to forfeit
of this vidory, receiving Letters from Rajea Bagwander Viceroy of Lahore-, that Mirz.a
Mamet Hapee his brother with thirty thoufand Horfe out of Kabul, had attempted to
prey upon Lahore: Echar delays no time, but with his Army prefents himfelf fo fudden-
ly to the Enemy, that without any refiftance Mahomet flies away leaving his Camp to the
mercy of Ecbar s Army.
This occafion drew the King to view other places of defence, which he both bettered
by his eye, and gave in charge to fuch as he could truft. He alfo takes a furvcy of Pang-
Ob j out of which he is foon called by Letters from his mother then in Agra acquaint
ing him with the Rebellion of Badnr-kam, Ally-Kooli-kawn and Zemaen wiio were lent
that fpring againft the Patanians, whom in Doab they put to flight; atSambel alio, and
at Lachnom got a greater vidory *, and three weeks after, at Joonpore utterly defeated
them, fubduing to the Mogul all liich Provinces as lie ingirt 'twixt Ganges and Tfatfa *,
conqueits of lb great note, that they grew efflated beyond meafure, conceiting all
Induflan under like poffibility, and which they refolvedto make trial of. Butthe re
ward and deltiny due toTraytors overtakes them : for Ecbar by fwift marches, long
before the Rebels expeded him pitches his Tents on the Eaft or Jeminy (the River at
Agra :) which ftruck the adverfe part with liich amazement, that as men ftruck with
guilt, forfeiting the memory of their pafled vidories, they betook themfelves to a
Ipeedy and fhameful flight', after whom Ecbar eagerly purfues, and after long purfuit,
the heads are taken: Allyculi-cawn alfo was trodden under foot by the Horle, and Badnr^
cum (by Ecbars command and in his light) was itrangled. This done, Ganganna is lent
to Joonpore againft MirutSulyman, and the King retreats to Agra : where he fancies
a pilgrimage to Afineer albeit a hundred and thirty courfe or two hundred Englijh miles jfmeer .
diftant thence*, fancying, that by invocation of Mandee a reverent Hodges or Dilciple
of Mahomet y he ftiould obtain fome ilfue mafculine. Accordingly, after much foot-toil,
(at every miles end a fair ftone being pitcht to reft upon, which as yet remain,) he gets
thither where bare-foot very devoutly entreats dead Mandee for Children. This is a
Prophet of great fame in thofe parts, and through the liberality of fome devoted Prin
ces there intombed in a ftately monument, graced with three fair Courts, each of
which is paved with ftone, the outfide Fabrick (after the Per pan mode) being parget-
ted or plaiftered, and poliihed in Mofaick order. Afmeer, is under 25 degr^ i5min.
North Latitude, the Caftle feated upon a high Mount, the greater part of the City be
ing below, much after the fimilitude of Dover-, the houfes well built but of fmail ftrength
albeit moated with a dry "gi afF, and walled about with folid ftone. Not far from which
place is Godah, once the feat of the valiant Kajhboot Princes: the Countrey is cham-
paigne and fruitful, in many places affording the ruines of antique magnificence, which
by time and war are exceedingly obfcured: Thele Ecbar coupled to the reft of his Em
pire ; and by this having made an end of his oblations, in his return he vifits a holy
Derxvis-, Siet Selym by name, of great repute amongft the People; who took it for fo
great a favour, that (by what skill I know not) he foretold the Mogul, how that e're
long he ihould be Father of three Men-children; which proved fo, and upon which ac-
compt his firft-born was called Selym, (he who afterwards was Shaw Selym the great
Mogul, when Sir Thomas Roe had Audience at Agra in the quality of Ambailador ;) the
other two were named Chan Morad or Amurath, and D'haen-jha or Daniel : ^A Prophecy
fo grateful to Ecbar, that in gratitude there he ereded a very magnificent Mofque, walled
the old Town Tiickerin, or Sycary as fome pronounce it, and from this occafion new-
names it Fetmore, which fignifies a place of pleafure ^ yea, grewfo affeded to it, that Fettqore
he adorned it with a Palace for himfelf, and a Buzzer for Trade fcarce out-vied by
any other in the Orient *, yea had made it the Metropolis and ufual refidence of the
Court, had the River affeded him, by whole unwholibmnefs he foribok it^, from
whence
i