'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.' [‎37] (708/1024)

articular Events:
OR,
The moft confiderable Paflfages after the War for
Five Y ears, or thereabout, in the Empire of the
Great Moo'd l.
HE War being ended, the ‘Tartars of Vsbec entertained thoughts of fend
ing Ambafladors to Aureng-Zebe. They had feen him fight in theirCoun-
trey, when he was yet a young Prince i Chah-Jeban having fent him to
JiL command the Succors, which the Kan of Samarkand had defired of him
againft the Kan of Ball^ They had experienced his Conduft and Valor
on many occalions, and they confider’d with themfelves, that he could not but remem
ber the Affront they did him, when he was juft taking the Capital Town of the
Enemy: For the two Kans agreed together , and obliged him to retreat, alledging"
That theyapprehended he might render himfelf Mafter of their whole State, juft as ?
Efyar had formerly done of the Kingdom of Kachimere. Befides, they had certain
intelligence of all he had done in Indoflan, of his Battels, Fortune, and Advantages s
whence they might fufficiently eftimate, that though Chab-Jehan was yet living, yet
Aureng-Zeb^ was Mafter, and the only Perfon that was to be owned King of the Indies.
Whether then they feared his juft refentments, or whether it was, that their inbred
Avarice and Sordidnefs made them hope for fome confiderable Prefent, the two Kans
fent to him their Ambaftadors to offer him their Service, and to Congratulate him up
on the happy beginning of his Reign. Aureng-Zebe faw very well, that the War bong
at an end, this offer was out of feafon, and that it was nothing but fear or hope, as
wefaid, that had brought them. Yet for all this, he received them honourably j
and, fince I was prefent at their Audience, l can relate the Particulars of it with cer
tainty.
They made their Pceverence at a confiderable diftance from him, after the Indian
cuftom, putting thrice their hands upon their heads, and as often letting them down to
the ground. Then they approached fo near , that Aureng-Zebe himfelf might very
well have taken their Letters immediately from their hands j but yet it was an Omrab
that took and open’d them, and gave them to him. He forthwith read them with a
very grave countenance y and afterwards commanded, there fhould be given to each of
them an embroider’d Veft, a Turbant, and a Girdle of Silk in Embroidery , which is
that which they call that is, an Habit from head to foot. After this, their
Prefents were call’d for, which confifted in fome Boxes of choice Lapis Lazulus^ divers
Camels with long hair, feveral gallant Horfes, fotne Camel-loads of frcfh Fruit, as
Apples, Pears, Raifins and Melons > ( for S tis chieflyTYkc that furnifhes thefe forts
°f fruit, eaten at Debit all the Winter-long y ) and in many Loads of dry Fruit, as
Prunes of Bokjra^ Aprecocks, Railrns without any ftones that appeared, and two other
forts of Raifins, black and white, very large and very good.
Aureng-Zebe was not wanting to declare, how much he was fatisfied with the Ge-
nerofity of the Kans^ and much commended the Beauty and Ftarity of the Fruit,Hor
fes, and Camels y and after he had a little entertain’d them of the ftate of the Acade
my of Samarkdtnd^ and of'the Fertility of their Couhtrey, abounding in fo many rar6
and excellent things, he defired them to go and repofe themfelves, intimating with-
all, that he fhould be very glad to fee them often.
They came away from their Audience full of contentment and joy, not being much
troubled, that they had been obliged to matte their Pteverence after the Indian cuftom,
though it have fomcthing of flaVHh in it y nor much refenting jt, that the King had 1