'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎166] (211/506)

166 A Relation of Cmatvck-Comtry.
Letter IV". ted to their own Ruin ; for they are To jealous one of another th
without that inbred Difpofition it were impoflible to keep'th
under. ^ f 11
They make After this Confpiracy every one betook himfelf to^is Gov
King^'and are ment there being notnore to pofTefs themfelves of; the imprufi
Curbed by the King having given all away, even to his Perfon, which they fc
pled not to Violate, Extinguifliing the very Lineagg, or leavin
them fo undefenceable, that they are only faid to be a petty
in the Plain, and thereby eafily prevented to afpire to their Lawf^
• Sovereignty ; the Supremacy being eftablilhed in their own Hanrk
and (hared to their mutual Contents, they took upon them with
controul the Regal Dignity and Title of Fedejham, and exerciW
their Fundtions very Amicably fome Years > and fo Ions thev In r
themfelves fafe enough from the Moguls, who began to make Inroadc
into their Country, without any notable Succefs, till thev fotmH
means to make them break with who maintained th
Frontiers againft them ; for all that, he was befet afore and aban
doned behind, he held them play a long while; though by dcere«
the Moguls from without, and the perverfe remifsnefs of his own
at home, reduced him to that part of the enti-e Cnn
queft of which the prefent Auren Zeeh finilhed (though unhand
. fomely) he having been Hofpitably receiv'd when he came undc- Co
lour of a Fakier,znd a Banifhed Man from theCourt at Je»eah ■ w!;^
I faw the Ruins of a fumptucus Ereded for th,
prefent Emperor of the Moguls The Reward which he gratified
him with, was the Extirpation of the Royal Race of theM/U
faws ; whofe peftru^ion the remaining Two may at leifure repent
being thereby incapacitated to make Head againft the M f ul, maugre
all thur Forces ; when before, m/harn/haw alone could withftind
On the f,,, of thc/have^uLh'toT tot I ■ A h mie ; ^ bUt fincehis downfai
Mjbamjbntht > ;' aN t " do 'o Guard themfelves. The Rajah's fthe
luy, Defert, moftf owerful of whom fubfcnbed to his Jurifdidtion J beginning
to fet up for themfelves ; fo that the Two Kings of
^ as they Wh 11 Ief£ al0ne t0 endure the brunt ' the ^ coming
For ali that what is left of Dwm * under the King of is
flill a fpacious Kingdom, reaching North to leneah South to Peru
unLttled and ill Governed, whereby it is often diftreffed • but when
for then iht Mj./iorns iiu ArnVon h m S''" m" '' i" t
underhand • thn.-nh i!„ • on h,n ? or M ony he helps him to
MnnitPc AmV fi i ' ls /^'Shtily awed by the Mogul, fuffering the
Mogul s Ambaffador to refide at Court in quality of a Supervifor - who
Se," S taLrK c "" "
tions vettTs fenfiM^ J ^ S ^ Ul<aed and Se ^d by his Fmpofi.
the fl'outeft Bulwark n ,1" rj u 2e Ducc£ "'> Gulconda would lofe
which tah —
and Rajas to difturb the Forces, other-whiles
flopping