'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.' [‎156] (483/1024)

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fotne people believing that Mphc^whkh is the biggeiijis in a maner join’d to
thfe firm Latid^s that Region of all * 4 fia that yields the greateft quantity of Gold:
Though othfers believe it is found in the Wand of Formfa, and carri’d theneeto
Jupn. for as long as the Hollanders have had the Iftand, they could never
yet tell w hat is the Trade of that Coaft* whence they belive the Gold comes.
There conies alfo Gold from Cb/^,which the Chinefes exchange for the Silver
Which is brought them. For price for price, they love Silver better than Gold;
becaufe they have no Silver-Mines. Yet it is the coarfeft metal of all the Jfm«
21^ Gold.
The Ifland of Celebes ox Macajfar produces Gold alfo, which is drawn put of
the Rivers* where it rowls among the Sand. > 1 1
In the Ifland of ulchenox SHmatra^Pxex the rainy feafon,when the Torrents are
wafted; they find veins of Gold in the Flints, which the waters Walh down from
the Mountains that lyetoward the North-eaft. Upon the Weft-fide of theilfond,
When the Hollanders come to lade their Pepper* the Natives bring them great
ftore of Gold, but very coarfe metal, if not worfe than that of China.
Toward the Thibet^ which is the ancient Caucafnsjn the Territories of zRafi
beyond the Kingdom of ChachemirfihQxe are three Mountains clofe one by another
one of which produces excellent Gold* the other Granats, and the third Laps*
I There is Gold alfo comes from the Kingdom of Tipra, but it is coarfe,almoft
as bad as that ofCfe^ ; and thefe are all the places in fifia that produce Gold.
^y fomething of the GoM of 4/w^and the places where it is found
in^greateft quantities.
Obferve by the way^ that the Vice-Roy of Mozambique has under his Com
mand the Governors of S of ala and Chepon-Goura. The firft of thefe two^ Go
vernments lies upon the River Sene y lixty leagues from the Mouth of the River;
and the other ten leagues higher. From the Mouth of the River to thofe very
places on each fide of the River, great numbers of Negro’s inhabit, which are all
commanded by one VortugHez^e. The Vonnguezjes have been Mailers of this
Countrey for many years, where they take upon them like Lords, and make War
one upon another for the flighteft occafions in the World; fome of them having
under them five-thoufand C^/m, which are their Slaves. The Governor of
furnilhes them with Calicuts, and all other necefiary Commodities
which they want* which he fells them at his own rates. When he enters upon
his Government ne carries with him great quantities of all forts of Commodities,
efpecially Calicuts dy’d black. His Correfpondents alfo in Goa fend him every
year two.Veflels, which he fends to Sofala y Chepon-Goura, and even as far as the
City of Monomotopa, the chief City of a Kingdom of the fame name, otherwife
call’d Fouvebaran^ diftant from Chepon-Gonra fifty leagues, or there-abouts. He
that commands all that Gountrey, affumes the name of Emperor of Monmotopa y
extending his Dominions as far as the Confines of Prefer Johns Countrey. From
this Country of Monomtopa it is, that the molt pure and finelt Gold of all Jftca
comes .* where they dig it with eafe out of the earth, not being put to labour
above two or three foot deep. In fome places of that Countrey which are not
inhabited by reafon of the fcarcity of water, the people find great pieces ofGoM,
of feveral forms and weights, upon the furface of the earth; ihme of which
weigh an ounce. One I have by me that weighs an ounce and a half, or there
abouts. RSng'at Surat, I wenttovifit the Embafiadour of the King oi tne
Abyjfms. He fiiew’d us the Prefent which his Mailer had fent to the Great Mo*
confifting of fourteen ftately Horfes, the remainder of 30, the reft dy in § /
But what was mou
the way ; and a great number of Slaves of both Sexes.
remark**