'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.' [‎56] (375/1024)

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the Sea flowing up higher then Daca. Cha-Ett-Kan y Uncle to JUmT^T—
&eb} the prefent Moguls and the bell Head-piece that ever was in all his T ^
ries, found out a way to corrupt feveral of the King of AracarPs Captain f t0v
of a fudden forty Galeafles, commanded by came and join’d tl^ n^
with him. To engage more firmly all this new multitude to his few* 65
gave a larger pay to all the Pow/^Z-Officers, and to the Souldiers pronnrt tVile
bly : But thofe of the Country had no more than their ordinary pavV u ^
’Tis an incredible thing to fee how fwiftly thefe Galeafles cut their way in f°h ’
ter. Some are fo long that they carry fifty Oars of a fide * but they Jr!! 3 *
two men to an Oare There are fome very curioufly painted and l-?
there is no. colt of Gold and Azure fpar’d. The Hollanders have fome of
own to tranfport their Goods ^ and fometimes they are forc’d to hire th
whereby many people get a good livelihood. 0Uiers >
The next day after my arrival at Daca, which was the i^th oi January T w
to wait upon the Nahab •, and prefented him with a Garment of Cloath off ^
lac’d with a Gold-needle-work Lace of Point of Sfain ^ with a Scarf of rii
and Silver, of the fame Point ^ and a very fair Lmrald-Jewel. Toward eye^° ^
being return’d to the Houfe,where 1 lodg’d, the Nahab fent me C™
nates, Cfc-Oranges, two Pcr/^-Melons, and three forts of Pears. a "
The fifteenth, 1 Ihewed him my Goods,and prefented tlie Prince with a WatrK
in a Gold-Enamell’d-Cafe; with a pair of little Piflols inlaid with Silver aid ’’
very fair Profpedive-Glafs. What I gave to the Father and. the Son a VoiT
Lord, about ten years old, flood me in above five thoufantl Livres. * J S
The fifteenth,I treated with him about the Prizes of my Goods * and at lenpflt'
I went to his Steward to take my Letter of Exchange to be paid at Cafen-Baur
Not but that lie would have paid me my Mony at Daca ; but the.Hollanders, who
underftood things better than I did,told me it was very dangerous to carry Mony m
Cafen-Bazar, Whither there was no going,but over the 6^ by watenthe way by
land being full of Bpgs and Fens.And to go by water is no lefs dangerous,by reafon
that the Boats which they ufe, are very apt to tip over upon the leafl: ftorm • And
when the Mariners perceive that you carry Money along with you, ’tis an eafy
thing for them to overfet the Boat, and afterwards to come and takeiro the
Money that lies but at the bottom of the River. 1
. twentieth, I took leave of the who defir’d me to come and fee
him again, and causd a Pafs to be deliver d me, wherein he gave me the title of
one of the Gentlemen of his houfe, which he had done before, when he was Go
vernor of when I went to him, to the Army, in the Province of Decan,
into which the Raja King -feva-gi was enter’d, as I ihall relate in another place. By ver-
£ue of thefe Paflbs I could travel over all the Countries of the great^/, as
being one of his Houfliould. & * >
The one and twentieth, the Hollanders made a great Feaft for my fakey to
which they invited the English, and fbmc Bortagaefe^s together with the 'AuBn*
Friers of the fame Nation. *
The two and twentieth, I made a Vifitto the EngliJh y whofc Prefidentthen was
Mr. Prat.
From the twenty-third to the twenty-ninth, I brought up Goods, to the value
of iiooo Roupies} and after I had embark’d them, I took my leave.
. The twenty-ninth, in the evening, I departed from Daca,the Hollanders hew
jngrnie company for two leagues, with their little Barques Arm'd: Nor did we
fpare the SpamJh-\Mine all that time. Having been upon the River from the
twenty-ninth qi January to the eleventh of February, 1 left my Goods and Ser-
yants at the Barque at Acer at j where I took a Boat that earn’d me t© a great
Village call d Mirdapur.
The next day I hirdanHorfe for my felf, but not finding another for my Lug**
^ was fore d to hire two Women, who earn’d it for me. That evening I ar-
ny d at C afen-Bafar,whereX was welcom’d by Menheir Arnold Fan Wachmndonk,
^'Tik 5 theHoUand-h adtories in Bengala,who invited me to lie at his Houfe.
The fourteenth, Menhtir W^ichttendonk return’d to Ouguely, where is the Gene^
fal Faaory. The iame day one of my Servants brought me word that my
eopie and Goods, which I had left behinde in the Barque, had been in very
gre