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'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.' [‎135] (806/1024)

The record is made up of 1 volume (898 pages). It was created in 1684. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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I he Paradifeof Indoftan.
who by order ef Chah-Jeban gave him powerful fuccours, and put to death or flight
aH the other pretenders, and left this man in the pofliffion of the Country on cond:
tiOn of an annual Tribute to be paid in Cryftal, Musk and Wool. This petty King could
not forbear coming to fee Aimng-Zebe, bringing with him a prefent of thofe things i
juft now named j but he had fo pitiful a Train,That I ftiould never have taken him for
what he was. My Navah entertained him at dinner, that he might receive the better
information concerning thofe Mountains. I heard him fay, that his Country on the
Eaft fide did confine with great Tibet b that it was about 30 or 40 leagues broad j tha^
there was indeed fome little Cryftal, Musk, and Wool, but for the reft very poor i and
that there were no Gold Mines as was faid that in fome places there was very good
fruit, efpecially Melons i that they had very hard Winters,and very troubleiome, becaufe
of the deep Snows 5 and that the people, which formerly had been Heathen, wasalmoft
all become Mahometan, as himfelf, namely, of that Sed called Cbia, which is that of
all Perfia. Befides, that fevenieen or eighteen years ago Cbah^yehan had attempted to
make himfelf Mailer of the Kingdom of the Great Tibet, as formerly alfo had done the
Kings of Kacbemire^ i that his Army after fixteen days difficult march, always among
Mountains, did beliege a Gallic which they took ? that there remain’d no more for him
to do, than to pafs aPuver, which is famous and very rapid, and thereupon to march
dire&Iy to the Capital Town, which he would have eafily carried, the whole Kingdom
being in a panick terrour s but that the feafon being far fpent, theGovernour of Ka-
chemire, who was the General of that Army, did apprehend he ffiould be furprized by
the Snow, and fo returned, leaving in that Gaftle a Garrifon, which, whether it was
from fear of the Enemy, or from want of Efficient provifion, he could not fay, foon a-
bandon’d it j which broke the defign the Governour had of returning thither the next
Spring.
Now that the King of this Great Tibet knows, that Aureng-Zebe is at Kacbemire, and
threatens him with War, he hath Cent to him an Ambaftador, with Prefents of the
Countrey, as Chryftal, and thofe dear White Cow-tails, byway of ornament faften’d
to the ears of Elephants, as alfo Musk, and a Stone of Jacbenoi great price, becaufe of
an extraordinary bignefs. This Jachen is a blewifti Stone with white veins fo hard that
it is wrought with nothing elfe but the Powder of Diamond, highly efteemed in the
Court of the Megol. They make Cups of it and other velfels, of which I have fome
richly wrought with threads of Gold, of very curious Workmanffiip. The Train of
this Ambaffador did confift of three or four Cavaliers, and ten or twelve tall men, dry
and lean, having three or four hairs in their beards like the Cbinefe, and plain red Bon
nets upon their heads like our Seamen, the reft of their Garments fuitable. I think
there were four or five of them with S words, but the reft marched behind the Ambafla-
dor without any rod or ftick. He treated with Aureng-Zebe in his Mafters name, pro
fiting that he would fuffer a Mofque to be built in the Capital City, wherein Prayers
mould be made after the Mahometan way •, that the Money, henceforth to be coined,
ffiould on the one fide have the Imprefs of Aureng-Zebe, and that he would pay him a
‘-’ertain annual Tribute. But’tis believedj that as foon as this King ffiall know that
Aureng-Zebe is gone from Kacbemire, he will laugh at all this Treaty, as he did formerly
at that, which he had made with Chab-Jehan>
This Ambaftador had in his fuit a Phyfician, which was faid £0 be of the Kingdom
ofLajfa, and o£ the Tribe Lamy or Lama, which is that of the men of the Law in that
Country, as the Brahmans are in the Indies with this difference, that the Brahmans
have no Caliph, or high-Pneft, but the Lamians have one that is not only ackpawledged
°r fuchby the Kingdom of Laffa, but alfo by all Tartary, and who is honourfd- and re
ferenced like a divine perfon. This Phyfician had a Book of Receipts, which he would
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was fo
>or Do
ctor. He was much wedded to the Metempfycbofis or Tranfmigration of Souls, and was
f H of admirable ftories of it > among the reft he related of his great Lama, that when
f was old and ready to die, he aftembled his Council, and declared to them, that now
oc was palling into the Body of a little Child, lately born, that this Child was bred up
with great care, and when it was about fix or feven years old, they brought to it ftore
f houffioid-ftuff pel mel with his own, and that the Child was able to diftinguiffi thofe,
ffiat were or had been his from that of others: Which was, aid thisDodfor, an au-
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sever iell to me j tne writing of it feem’d, at a diftance, fomewhat like ours
tnadehim begin to write the Alphabet, but he w^ote fo flowly, and his writing
in refpedt of that in his Book, that we foon fudged, this muft needs be a pc

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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.

Author: John-Baptist Tavernier

Publication details: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's Churchyard, MDCLXXXIV [1864].

Physical description: Pagination. Vol. 1: [18], 184, 195-264, [2]; [2], 214; [6], 94, [6], 101-113, [1] p., [23] leaves of plates (1 folded). Vol. 2: [8], 154; [12], 14, [2], 15-46, 47-87, [3]; 66 p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded).

Misprinted page numbers. Vol. 1, part I: 176 instead of 169; 169 instead of 176; 201 instead of 209; 202 instead of 210. Vol. 1, part II: 56 instead of 58; 61 instead of 63; 178 instead of 187. Vol. 1, part III: 13 instead of 30; 49 instead of 48. Vol. 2, part II: 93 instead of 39.

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1 volume (898 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references which covers all four books within the volume. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles anf page references. There is an alphabetic index at the end of Books I and II and a separate alphabetic index of place names which accompanies the map at the beginning of book IV.

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'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.' [‎135] (806/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187081.0x000007> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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