'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.' [‎50] (599/1024)

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T , f In thole Cofters they have, for thefe many years, laid up all that v/m"
?nitty of L " expended upon the Publick account, of the great Revenues of the 0«m«-MoDaX
Empemr and lo it may be call’d his Private Exchequer, into which there is nothin# if’
Ararat. Gold has entrance, all the Silver being carried into the other Treafury 1 °?
thence taken out again and dil'pos’d of, as occafion requir’d. After the death"
/f. TL.i in rhp TTnronp fnnnrl in rl-^r £ i
Amurat^ Ibrahim, his Succcffor in the Throne, found in that Tfdfury four thoufan]
Bags, which they call Kzzej-, and every bag contains fifteen thouiand Ducats of
Gold, which amount to thirty thoufand Crowns, and thole reduc’d to ourPnm^
’Twoc flip fomr* , u . nds
come to thirty Millions Sterling. ’Twas the fame Amurat ( a prudent and valiant
Pi iace, a man of great Parfimony, and as great conduft in Military i\ff a i rs q l
whom I have often had occafion to make mention) who enter’d into a \/V ar
againft the King of Perfra, and befieg’d Bagdet, or Babylon, which he took on the
Twenty Second of December, 1638*. I remember, that I was then but Five
Days journey from that place, in the Peferts of Arabia, as having 'left
Aleppo, in order to my going to Baljara, and that of the Threefcore andTve
daves, which the Caravan fpent in that Journey, for nine of them, we Were
deftituce of Water, which muff needs prefs very hard, both on the Men and the
Camels. •; ' ■ '
Ibrahim Ibrahim f therefore, at his coming to the Crown, found, in the fecret Treafury, that
charg'd ^ prodigious quantity of Gold, whereto he could not make any augmentations j
If Trmfury. u ^7 iome 6 on the contrary, are of opinion, That he Was'forc’d to ufe fome
part of it, through his ill Condudt of the Warr oj Candia. True it Is, That the
long continuance of that Warre made a great hole in the Revenues of the Empire 5,
but there are Two great Rea Ions, which divert- me from giving abfolute credit,
to fuch as affirm. That thofe Exigencies reach’d the Secret Trealury, For, in
fhort, it is as kwere a fundamental Law among them, That, before any thing
is taking out thence, it isrequifite, the Empire fhould be in imminent danger of
mine; And it is manifeft, That though the Turks could not reduce Cank
under their Jurifdidtion , yet their Empire was jo far from being near its
decadence, that it hill continu’d powerful. Befides, it is to be obferv’d, That
When the Grand Seignor lobes a Battel, it is a difadvantage to his provinces, upon
the fcore of their being thereby depopulated, and To much the lefs cultivated j
but that it is an advantage to his Coffers,^ in regard there’s fo much the lefs
comes out of them. The reafon of it is evident, becaufe he pays the Veteranes,
or Souldiers of long handing, feven or .eight Afpers a day, and that thofe ol
the new-rais’d Forces do not hand him in above one and a half, or two at tke
moh; their pay augmenting with the time, anfwerably to their fervices, and
the Prince’s good Pleafure. Whereto it is to be added, That when an Em*
perour dies, his Succehor augments the pay of the Janizaries, by an After,
of two, per diem* v ' * ■ ^ : " 1
It muh be acknowledg’d indeed, That there died a great number d 1 'urly
In the Warr of Candia: but it is certain alfo, That jf we confide! the great
number of Kingdoms and Provinces, whereof the Empire yonfihs, among which
there are fbme very fertile, and very well peopled, it.is an eane matter to
raife numerous Armies,, and to recruit them, when they, have been weakned,
" by a Defeat, or by fome Sickhefs, which often fiappens among them. Upon thde
two grounds, I cannot be induced to believe, that Ibrahim was oblig’d to make any
diminution of the Secret Treafury : but I am very apt to believe, that he made
not any great additions thereto, becaufe he had not either the good Concilia, or
good Fortune' of Amurat, and ordinarily, the one avails not much without me
‘' other. , ... . . , ' ' i ’ - . ;
All the Gold that lies interr’d under that Vault is in. Leather-bags, every Dag
containing.Fifteen thoufend. Ducats, that is Seven thonland five hundred pounos
Sterling : and ’tis with his own hand that the Grand Seignorpurs his Seal to t e j
Which is the fame that his PredeceffofS had us’d before him, five only the nam ,
which muff be that of the Prince then reigning. Amurat’s Seal had tneie 0 ^
lift Grand graven Upon ft Nafrum min allabi abdihil melekjl Mourath. Which UgUl
Seignor sPre- Afftilance of Gcd is upon his Servant the Emperour Amiirath. . r rr. ■j,
Security ^of hi ^ ° ls ^ 1G manner how the Bags of Gold is brought into the Sea et *■
" fifty. All the Gold and Silver which come into the Seragbe, « te® c:irliedl S 7 e
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