'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.' [‎3] (14/1024)

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Where he gloves a brief Relation of his the
befi parts 0/Europe as far as Conftantinople.
F the effe<5l of Education may be liken’d to a fecoad
Birth, I may truly fay, that I came into the World
with a defire to travel. The daily difcourfes which fe«
verai Learned men had with my Father upon Geogra
phical fubjedis, which my Father had the reputation
of underftanding very well, and to which, though v\ rv
young, I was with much delighf attentive, inipix'd u
betimes with a defign to fee fome part of thole CountrieSjWhich were reprt
fented to me in the Maps, from which I never could keep off my Eves*
By two and twenty years of Age,therefore I had feen the faireft Regions of
Europe, France, England E\\z Low Countries,Gtrmany, Switzerland, Poland 9
Hungary and Italy ; and I fpeak indifferently w^eli the Languages mofl
neceffary and moft generally fpoken.
My firft faiiy was into England, where at that time Reigned King
ames ; from thence I paisd into Flanders to lee Antwerp, my Father’s
Native Country, and fo into the Low Countries, where my inelinatiori
to travel became the ftronger, by reafon of the great Concourfc of Stran
gers which I met at that crouded thither from all parts o
the World 1
Having feen wnat w r as mofl confiderable in the united Provii ce* >
I^ pafsd into Germany, and when I came to Etorimbergh, by the way of
Frankfort and Aufpurgh, the noife of the Armies that were marching
into Bohemia to retake Prague, inftilFd into me a delire to go to the
\Vars, where I might learn fomething, that might,be uleful to me in the
feries of my travels. I was not above a days journey from Normlergf$.
when I met a Colonel of Horfe, whofb name was Hans Brener >> the
Son of Philip Brener, QoMtxnonic of Vienna, who engag'd metof ow
him into Bohemia, Sometime after I bore the fame Colonel comp ny
to I i erina, who prefen ted me to the Governour of Raah , his ! ! ncie,
then Viceroy oiHungary alfo ; who receiv’d me into his Family as one
oi his Pages, for it is a ufual thing in Germany for Gentlencns Sons
to ferye in that quality ’till, five and twenty years of age, and feldom
to quit that lervice, till they have a Commiffion for a Cornet, or
Enfigns place. Four years and a half I ferv’d the Viceroy, when the.
Prince of Mantua came to Vienna , to engage the perour l. certain
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