'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.' [‎54] (89/1024)

the Persian travels
Book II.
In the morning we caft Anchor, and went-aOicar. It b a good half Le a g ue
'from the Road where the Con fills and Merchants,both Englijh, H ollanders^ French
live in a very pitiful Village. However there is a little Monaflcry of Capuchins,
officiate in the Chapel of the French Conlul*, and another of Religious Italians
that depend upon the Guardian of Jerufalem. We (laid but two days at Lmeco'-
the Captain having nothing to do but to inform himfelf what bufmefs they rr.ig^
have for him at his return *, it being ufual then to take in i'pun and unfpun Cottons,
together with courfe Wool for Mattreffes.
From Larneca*tW\ we came in view of the Coaft of Syri^ we had the Wind very
favourable; but at length coming to prove a little contrary, infleadof carrying Us
to AUxandretta, it cait usto the Northward, two or three Leagues higher, upon
the Coaft of Ctlicia, toward a Town call’d Paiajfes. Half a League from that City
lyes a vaftRock, and between that Rock and the Land runs a very high Sea: And
here it was that the people of the Country believe that the Whale call upj 0w
again; though the common Opinion reports it to have been done near Jo^k
Paleftine. All along that Coaft from Alexandretta to Paiaffes , and farther, the
way is fo narrow and ftraiten’d by the Mountain, that in home parts the Camels and •
Horfes muft dip their Feet in the Sea : and yet you muft pafs that way of neceflity,
hom Syria to Confiantinofle, Between Alexandretta and Paiajfes it was,
that the Chevalier Paul, in a Veftel that carry’d only three hundred Men, mifs’d but
little of furprifing the Caravan that every Year carries the Tribute of Egypt toCra.
flantinofley wffiich fmee hath never been Cent by Sea for fear of the Maltefi. This
Knight had landed his Men, and laid them in Ambufcade; but unfortunately his
Defign was difeover’d, fothat the Caravan^ that might have been eafily furpriz’d,
flood upon their Guard. • ' /
We were near the Coaft, when we difeover’d a Skiff with fifteen or fixteen
Turks, that were fent by him that commanded four Galleys of Rhodes to demand the
Cuftomary Prefent from our Captain. Thofe Galleys then anchor’d at Paujfes }
and had there difeharg’d therr.felves of their Provifions of War for Bagdat, which
the Grand Signer was going to befiege. And it is the cuftom, that when the Great
Turk's Galleys are out at Sea, that whatever ftrange VefTd paffes by them mi
fend them a Prefent, either willingly or by force. When the Bajha oftheSea,
who is the Admiral of the Turks, is in Perfon at Sea, the Veflcl which he meets
is not excus’d for 2000 Crowns: fo that when he fets out UomConflantinople tocruife,
the Veflelsof the Franks do all they can to avoid him. There are Tome that will
feek to efcape in fight of the Galleys, but it has coft them dear. And if happen’d, 1
that one day the Wind fiackning, they boarded a Veflel of Marfeilles, the Captain
and Notary whereof were both feiz’d , and drub’d Till their Bodies were aboil:
bruis’d to a Geliy, and they had like to have dy’d upon it, without being thebettq;
in their Purfes; for the rudenefs of the Chaftifement did not excufe them from
paying the Money which was demanded. Whether our Captain knew any thing
of this Example, or whether it were out of his natural heat of Valour, he laugh’d
at the Skiff-men, bidding them be gone, and telling them he had no PrefentsfoE
them but Cannon-Bullets. Thereupon the Men return'd to their Galleys, who foon
deliver’d us from the true fear we were in, that the gallantry of the Captain had
drawn us into an inconvenience. For while we kept the Sea cl'ofe by the Coaft, to
obferve the Countenances of the Turks, they weigh’d Anchor, and turn’d their
Prows toward Rhodes. However, before they left us they fent us a Broad fide, and
oiir Captain, whatever we could fay, fent them another, which render’d us more
guilty. For the Turks pretend that when their Navy is at Sea, or only one Squadron,
and that a ftrange Veflel is in fight, (he is bound to come as near as the Wind will
permit her without being hal’d, for which they will otherwife make the Commander
pay very feverely. TheConfuIs and Merchants of Aleppo underftanding what had
pafs’d . very much blam’d the Captain, fearing a worfe confequepce of the bufinefc?
But by good fortune the mifcarmge was ftifl’d and never went farther.
The fame day the Wind veering to the Weft-North- Weft, we fail’d into the
Road of Alexandretta, where we came to an Anchor, about a quarter of a League
from the Land. Upon the advice which they have out of Chriftendom, fo foon as
they of Alexandretta difeover a Veflel, and know what Colours (he carries, the
Vice-Conful of the Nation to which the Veflel belongs, fails not to advertne the