'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.' [‎28] (699/1024)

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The Ht (lory of the Late Revolution
made great promiCes, and fwore Fidelity. But Sujab, who feared Auren^Zebezud
Emir- fcmlTs fnares, could not truft him, having always an Eyj upon his Ad ions,
wTthout giving him any confiderable Commands which he fo difgufted, that tor^
months after, not knowing what would become of him, he left Sultan Sujab and re-
turned to Ewir, who received him well enough, alluring him, that he would write in
his behalf to Aunng-Zebe, and do his utmoll to make him forget that fault.
I think fit here to take notice, on the by, of what many have told mz viz. That
this Efcapc of Sultan Mahmoud was altogether made by the Artifices of Auren^Zebe,
who cared not much to hazard this Son of his to try to deffroy ^, and who was
glad enough, that whatever the Event were, he might have a fpecious pretence to put
him in a place of furety. However it be, he afterwards fhewM hunfelf much diffatif-
bed with him, and wrote to him a fevere Letter, in which he enjoin d him to return to
Vehli, but giving order in the mean time, that he fhould not tar. tor he no
fooner had paffed the River Ganges, hut he met with Troops that ftopthim, and put
him up in a fmall Chair, C as was done to Morad-Bakph J and carried him to Gouakor,
whence ’tis thought he will never be fet at liberty : Aureng-Zebe by this means freeing
himfetf from great perplexity •, who then alfo let his fecond Son, Suit an Mtzum,
know, that the point of Reigning is fo delicate a thing, that Kings muft be jealous even
of their own fhadow i adding, that if he be not difcreet, the like may befall him what
had befallen his Brother, and that he ought to thmkAurmg-Zebe was not a Man, that
would fuffer that to be done to himfelf, what Cbahjekan did toms Father jam-
Guyre, and what he had alfo lately feen done to Chah-Jeham - ^ .
And indeed we may on this occafion fay, that if this Son continue to behave him
felf as he hath done hitherto, Aureng-Zebe will have no caufeto fufped him, and ro be
diffatished with him: For noSlavecanbe more tradable, and Aureng-Zebe hme
never appear’d more carelefs of Greatnefs, nor more given to Devotion than he: let
1 have known Men of Parts, who believed, that he is not fo in good earnu , at } u
perlative policy and craft, like that of his Father, which we may have the prooi o in
Whilft all thefe things were thus tranfaded in Bengale, and that Sultan Sujab xMd
the heft he could the Forces of Emir-Jemla, palling now on one fide °t the River
Ganges, of a Channel, or fome other River, ( for thatCountrey is full of them; t en
on the other i Aureng-Zebe kept himfelf about Agra, going to andtro i and at ieugt ,
after he had alfo fent to Goualeor, he came to Debit, where in goo ear
neft he took upon him publickly to ad the King, giving order for all Affairs ot the
Kingdom, and efpecially thinking on means to catch Dara, and to get him out ot -u-
zarutte, which was a very hard thing, for the Reafons already mentioned. ut tne
great good Fortune, and the lingular dexterity of Aureng-Zebe foondrew himtnencc,
which now follows next to be related. . c
jejfomfeigne, who had retired himfelf to his Countrey, and made the beftot wnac
he had taken in the Battel of Kadjoue, raifed a ftrong Army, and wrote to Vara, uat
he (houldcometo Agra as foon as he could, and that he would join with his r orces.
Vara, who had by tjiis time fet on foot a pretty numerous Army, ( though it conlil c ,
for the moll: part, but of gathered people J and who hoped, that approacniog to -•
gra, many of his old Friends, feeing him with Jeffomfeigne, wouldmot fail to join wit
him alfo, immediately leaveth Amadevad, and marcheth with great fpeed to^ pnm,
feven or eight days journey from Agra. But jejfomfeigne kept not his word with !m *
The Ka)a Jeffeigne interpoied to make his peace with Aureng-Zebe, and to fallen nim to
his Party, or, at leaft, to hinder his defign, which was capable to ruinehimieit, an
to make all the Raja King 's rife j and wrote to him feveral Letters, giving him to under an
the great danger he went to expofe himfelf to, by efpoufmg a Party in that Extrem
ty as that of Varas was i that he fhould well confider what he was going to do, t a
he 5 went about wholly to deftroy himfelf, and all his whole Family S that Aureng-
would never forgive him \ that he was a Raja King as himfelf i that he fhould thin a on pa
ring the blood of the Ragipous b that if he thought to draw the Raja King 's to his ^ h
he would find thofe that would hinder him from it. In a word, that it was a u in ,
which concern’d all the Gentry of tndojan, and excofed them to danger, if wf J
given to kindle a Fire, which would not be extinguifb’d at pleafure. And lamyV ^
would leave Vara to himfelf, Aureng-Zebe would forget ail that had palled, an P ^