'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.' [‎83] (402/1024)

Book I.
Travels in India.
oneday what he had done. I bid him haye a care of going there any more
for fear of raining himfelf and all the French men in that City. But he contrary
to my advice went thither two or three times after that 5 till at length he was dif-
cover’d by one of the women of the Bath that took care of the Linnen, and
dry them without, upon Perches as high as the top of the Arch, to which
they get up by a little Ladder. The v^pman feeing a man lying *11 along upon
his belly, feiz’d upon his Hat, and began to cry out. But Mar eft to get him-
feifout of the mire, and to hinder the woman from making more noife, put
two Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , into her hand. When he return’d to the Inn,I perceiv’d him to’look
as if he had been fear’d, and conjeduring that feme ill accident had befall’n
him, I prefs’d him to confefs what was the matter. He was loath at firft, but
at length he confefs’d how he had been difeover’d by a woman, and how he had
Hop’d her mouth with money. Thereupon I told him, that there was a necehity
for him to fly,for that the danger was far greater than he imagin’d. The Batch
Prefident alfo, to whom I thought it convenient to tell what had pafs’d, was of
the fame opinion} upon which we gave him a Mule, and as much money as was
neceflary for him, ordering him to go to Bander, and thence by Sea to Surat.
I gave him a Letter of Recommendation to the Englift Prelident, who was my
Friend ^ whom I alfo defir’d to let him have two hundred Crowns, if he had oc-
cafion for them. I wrote very much in his commendation ^ and mention’d the
proffer which the Butch Prelident at Iff ah an had made him, to fend him with
Letters to the General, who would not fail to employ him according to bis
merit. For indeed at that time that the Hollanders had War with the Portuguefes
in Ceylan, any perfon of wit, and courage, like the Sieur Bes Marefts, was very
acceptable to them. Which made them very earnefl with him, to take an em
ployment anong them ; and to that end, they carefs’d him, and prefented him
very nobly during his ftay at Ifpahan. But he told them,that not being of their
Religion, he was unwilling to ferve them again# the Portuguefes ^ which was
the only reafon that hinder’d him from accepting the offers which I had made
him. Theft particulars I wrote in his behalf to the Engltfh Prefident at Surat \
fo that the Sieur Bes Marefts being defirous to go to Goa to ferve the Portu-
gals, the Prefident wrote in his behalf to the Vice-Roy, by whom he was very
much belov’d, relating to him, befides, what the Hollanders had proffer’d him,
that his recommendation might be the more acceptable. Thereupon the Vice-
Roy made him very welcome } and upon the Sieur Marefts defire to be em
ploy’d in Ceylan in the Portugal Army, he fent him away with the fir# oppor
tunity, with Letters of Recommendation to Don Philif de Mafcaregnas, who
was then Governour of Ceylan, and all thofe places that belong’d to it under
the jurifdidtion of the Portuguefes . It happen’d three days after, that they loft
Nagmbe, and when they retook it, the Sieur Marefts was one of thofe that
receiv’d molt wounds, and won moft honour in the A [faults. He it was that
afterwards was moft inftrumental in faving Don Philif from being drown’d ^ fo
that when Don Philif came to be Vice-Roy of GoA i he could not think he de-
ferv’d a lefs reward than the Command of his Guards *, in which employment he
dy’d within three or four Months. He was very much lamented by the Vice-
Roy,by whom he was entirely bdov’d. But he left his Eftate to a Prieft, with
whom he had contraded a particular friendfhip; upon condition that he fhould
°nly pay me two hundred and fifty Crowns that I had lent him; which how
ever 1 had much ado to get out of the Prieffs Clutches.
While I flay’d at Goa,\ was told a pretty flory concerning a Caravel, or
orr^/ Veflfel, which arriv’d there but a little before, and came from Lisbon.
When flie was about to make the Cafe of good Hofe, there happen’d fuch a
violent fempeft, as lafled five or fix hours, and put the Marriners to fuch a
nomas^ that they knew not were they were. At length they fell into a Bay,
F ^ aw ^ vera * Inhabitantsand as foon as they came to an Anchor,they
oeneld the fhore cov er’d with men, women, and children, that teflify’d aflrange
rna?ement to fee white people, and fuch kind of people as the Caravel. The
ilcnjei was, that they could not underfland one another, but by figns. But
Fortli ^ s bad giv’n thofe Cafres Tobacco, Bisket, and Water, the next
7 the people brought them a great quantity of young Oftriches, and other
* M 2 * - Fowl