'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.' [‎92] (641/1024)

C}2 A Relation of the Grand Settlors S e r:a g li o-
CHAR XX.
Of the Princes who follow the Mahumetan Religion^
in Europe, A fa, and Africa.
THE P PRINCIPAL HEADS.
General Laws for all the Mahumetan Setls. A Curious Rentar\
concerning the TLntperour of Java s So?i. Kings^ who follow
the Do&rine <?/Hali. ihe Royal Prefent fent from the Great
Mogul to Media, fhe federal ways, by which the Mahume-
tans come to their Prophets Pomh. Proublefome Defarts to
be pajjed through in their way to the Sepulchre of Hali. A
Miraculous Channel of Water, of the continuance of Eighteen
days Journey. Phe Burnt - 0jfering of a Weather.
General taws
for all the Ma-
humetan
Se^s,
I Have fo often had ocafion, In the prefent Relation have made of the Grand
Seignor’s Seraglio, to fpeak of the Mahometan Religion^, that I am content
before I put a period to this Work, to make it appear, how far it
extends into the three parts of our great Continent: Mahumetifme having not
yet fee footing into that which has been difeover’d but two Ages fince. I
meddle not at all with the Dodrinc of it, of which I am fufficiently aflur’d
that many perfons have written: and 1 fhall only entertain the Reader with
a Geographical Chart of all the Countries of Europe^ and Africa^ which
are under the dominion of the followers of Mahomet.
Though the Opinions of their Dodtors be different, as to what £onecrns
the Explication of the Law, and that there are principally two great^ Seek,
that of Mahomet , which is the Stock ; and that ot Halt , one of his principal
SuccefTors : Yet thofe two general Sedts, and the particular ones, which are
derivable thence, are all concordant in the fundamental Points, which every
Mahumetan is oblig’d, in Confcicnce, to obferve and pradfife. Of thofe I gave an
account, when I made mention of the Prayers or Devotions, which the
are bound to perform five times a day, and the Pilgrimage of Mecha h one of
thofe principal Articles. I have alfo laid fomething of them, in the Chapters
treating of the Prefent, which the Grand Seignor fends thither every Year; and
in this Lift, I fhall endeavour to exprefs my Telf fully as to that matter.
In Europe, we have no Mahumetan Princes but the Emperonr of the TW^and
the Cham of the Leffcr ‘Tartary : But in Jfia there are many of them, who are
powerful, and poflefs’d of great Dominions. The Grand Seignor extends his
Jurifdidh'on, In this part, beyond the Sources of the River Tigris, and beyond the
mouths, by which it falls , into the Sea, and towards the North, as far as the
Territories of the Mengrehans. To go thence from the Weft to the haft, next
the Grand Seignor, we muff count the Princes of the Three Arabia's, with fcvcr.il
of whom I have often fpqken, in Two of-my Voyages, wherein J have been
oblig’d to pais through the Defarts. The Kina; of Perfia, the Great Mogul, the
King of Vifapour, the King of GAconda, the Kings on the Coaff of Malabar , of
whom the moil: confide rable is that of Comorin-, the Great Cham of Tart ary, apa
the Kings of the Mountains, to the North fide of the fame T^tarj',\vho are got
into China • All thefe Kings, I fay, follow the Mahumetan, Religion.