'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.' [‎1] (672/1024)

THE
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TORY
OF THE
Late Revolution
OF THE
DOMINIONS
O F T H E
GREAT MOGOL.
HE defire of feeing the World having made me Travel into Pale-
ftina and Egypt, would not let me flop there 5 it put me upon a
refolution to fee the Red Sea from one end to the other. I went
from Grand Cairo, after I had ftaid there above a year i and in two
and thirty hours, going the Caravan-\>ace , I arrived at ^ Suez,
where I Embarked in a Gaily, which in feventeen days carry’d me,
always in fight of Land, to the Port of Gidda, which is half a days
Tourney from Mecca. There I was conftrained ( contrary to my
hopes, and the promife which the Beig of the Red Sea had made me ) to go afhore on
that pretended Holy Land of Mahomet, where a Ghriftian, that is not a Slave, dares not
fet his foot* I ftaid there four and thirty days i and then I Embarked m a (mall Velfel,
which in fifteen days carried me along the Coaft of Arabia the Happy to Moka, near the
Streight of Babel-mandel. Irefolvedto pafs thence to thelfleof Mafowa and Arkki,
to get as far as Gouder, the Capital Town of theCountrey of Akbech, or the Kingdom
of JEthiopia j but I received certain information, that, fince the Portugmfes had been
killed there by the intrigue of the Queen-Mother, or expelled, together with the Jeluit
Patriarch, whom they had brought thither from Goa, the Roman Cathohcks were not
fafe there •, a poor Capuchin having loft his head at Suakn, for having attempted to en
ter into that Kingdom : That indeed, by going under the name of a Greek, or an Ar
menian, I did not run fo great hazard, and that even the King himfelr, when he ihoujd
know, that I could do him fervice, would give me Land to Till by Slaves, which I tnignt
buy if I had money j but that undoubtedly they would forthwith oblige me to ^ rr y>
as they had lately done a certain Frier, who had palfed there under the name of a Greek
Phyfitian, and that they would never fuft'er me to come away again.
Thefe conliderations, among others, induced me to change my refolution. wen
aboard of an Indian Veffeh I paffed thofe Streights, and in two and twenty days I ar
rived at Suratte in Indoftan, the Empire of the Great Mogol,jn the Year 1055.
i found, that he who then Reigned there, was call’d CW-jfete, thatis to fay, Kingo
the World*, who, according to the Hiftory of that Countrey, was Son otjehan-Gnyre,
which fignifieth Conqueror of the World, Grandchild of Ekbar, w ic is ^ ^
that thus afcending by Hotimayons, or the Fortunate, Father of Ek^-> an is 0 er
Predeceffors, he was the ienth of thofe that were defcended from that Jimur-Lengue,
which fignifieth the ^me Prince, commonly and corruptly call’d T«r/jw, forenowne
tor his Conquefts *, who married his near Kinfwoman, the only Daughter or the rinc ^^
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