2n 8 %he Persian Travels • / Book V 



"was all of Gold, and he had fo much Gold in his Coffers, that when he went 

 to the Great Mogul he would not accept of any thing for his maintenance 

 but contented himfelf with one of the higheft Dignities in the Empire* 

 which he enjoy'd till his death. At fetfanabad he built a molt neat Houfe, with 

 a fair Garden upon the River. 



He a oi his wealth in fome meafure, for the greateft part came by Inhe- 

 ritance^ by the great advantages which he made of the Caravans that then 

 pafs'd oft'ner through Candabar then they do now adays. For by delaying 

 the Merchants at the Cultome-houfe, and by treating them himlelf, and re- 

 ceiving treatments from them again, he caus'd them to fpeni their Provifi- 

 ons, which they were fore'dto recruit again at C.i-jJi'j tr. 



The Grand. Sha Abb. is left the peaceable Polleflion of Candahar to Shi* 

 Sefi his Grand-child. In whole time AUmsrdan-Ka* delivered it up to the 

 Great Mo'ul. Sha Abbas the Second retook it' in the year i6ro. Where- 

 upon Sba-gehan lent his eldeft Son to drive him out. But though his Army 

 confifted of three hundred thouland men, yet the place was fo well defend- 

 ed that he bit the belt part of his Army before it. The next year Sb*- 

 jehan fent another Army under the Command of SjritaK*Snjah , but lie had 

 no better fiiccels then his Brother. Thereupon Begum Sahib, Sha~\eki>?s el- 

 deft Daughter, and paflionately belov'd by him even to Inceft, bearing the 

 greateft fway in the Kingdom, and having a valt Treafure, rais'd an Army 

 at her own charges, and made Anrengz.eb Commander of it. After many af- 

 faults, Aur:ngz.eb dilcourfing with his Generals one day who fhould have the 

 honour if he took the City , and being told that his Sifter would have the 

 honour in regard (lie had rais'd the Army, the Prince cither jealous of his 

 Sifter, or elfe not loath to give occafion of being envy'd by his Brothers , af- 

 faulted it no more, and when the rains came, rais'd his fiege. 



A. The Principal Citadel. 



B. Another Citadel. 



C. The Mountain that reach'd to the next Citadel, which Sha Ssfi cut away after 

 he took the City. 



D. The Governours Houfe. 



E. The Lodgings for the Officers and Souldiers. 



F. The Piazjm of the City. 



G. The great ftreet. 



II. The two Caufeys that lead tj the City. 



/. The Path that leads from the Merjh to the City. 



K. The lefler wav that leads from the City to the Citadel. 



Thus I have fininYd the molt conhderable Obfervations as well in reference 

 to Turkic as to Perjia. I have been curious to underftand things, and have lookt 

 with a itrich eye upon them : and I am oblig'd to inform the Reader, that he 

 muft not travel into Afia, in expe&ation of mending his experience in any of the 

 nobler Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Goldimiths work, or Turning. As for the 

 Coverlets, Embroideries, Tiflues of Gold and Silver,- which are made in Perjia, 

 and which we admir'd formerly in France, all thefe give place to our new' 

 manufactures. Infomuch that the Perfians themfelvcs admire the rich goods of 

 Europe, and wshen we carry any thither, they are immediately bought up by 

 the King and the Nobility. They neither underftand any thing of Architecture: 

 nor is there any thing in all Afia that equalls the Riches ' and Beauty of the 

 Lour j y or of any other of the Kings houfesin France, which infinitely excell in 

 workmanfhip all the magnificence of the Eaftern Monarchs. Which has made 

 me with aftoniffiment admire that fo many Travellers have afcrib'd to Perfia 

 and other Regions of Afia, thofe beauties for which they were never beholding 

 either to Art or Nature. For if all they have laid had been true, thofe won- 

 ders could never have efcaped my fight j and I dare afTure the Reader that I have 

 defcrib'd the naked truth of things as really they are. 



The End of the Relations of Perfia : and of 

 the fir ft Part of Allan Travels. 



