'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.' [‎59] (922/1024)

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they find it in Powder^ and that |he Japonefes fetch it in their
VeiTels. He did all he could to difcover the truth, but after
he had travelled two or three days Journey, the People
would let him go no further. For at the end of every three
or four hours travel there are Guards fet, who examine all
Travellers whither they go • neither will they let their own
Countrymen pafs,bnt Inch as go about their Law or to trade.
Moreover he told them, that if they would give him Goods
to trade withall, as Amber, Coral, Looking Glaffes • but
chiefly fome Skins of the Sea Fill], which is rougher than
Seal-skin, he would endeavour to get to the very City it felf
where the Ships ride. Thefe Skins are greatly efteemed by
the Natives to adorn the Scabbards of their
Cutlafles and Swords. For ufually upon the
back of this Fifih you fhall find nine little
Stones, which make a kind of a Rofe, eight
in a Circle and one in the middle, as you
fee thefe nine difpofed in their exaft order.
When the Tortugue^es traded onely to Japonj
it is incredible how dear they fold thele Skins. Fojr if Na
ture had well let thefe Stones at an equal diftance, and even
in bignels, one of thefe Skins would yield above ten thou-
fand Tiafters, and more. This Filli is caught in the ( PeryL?2
Gulph, where I have feen of them, but I faw but very few
fo perfect as that which I have deferib'd, which would in
thole Countries yield ten thoufand Crowns.
But to return to the Story • the Governour gave the
young man what he defired, and lent him going : but the
Chinejes loon after expelling the Hollanders out ofthe Illand,
it was never known what became of the young man.
It may be wondered why Formofa was taken fo foon i
but here were two Reafbns, fir ft the faint-heartednels of the
Governour, and fecondly his breach of word to a French
Souldier of ^ouerij calfd Abraham du Fuys • for he having
lerved out his time of feven years, defifd leave to be gone,
but the Governour, after he had promis'd him fair at firft, at
length abfolutely refufed him. Soon after the Chinefes came
to befiege the place. The Souldier thus difappointed, and
feeing himlelf coop'd up who might have been free, had the
Governour lo plealed, ftudied a fatal revenge upon all his
Countrymen • for being by this means grown defperate,
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