1 2 An account of the Money of Asia. Part II 



of the Indians defcended : and therefore for his fatisfacTion, I will ttJJ him in a 

 few words. Her Father, a Perfian by Nation, a man naturally Ambitious, and who 

 in his own Country was no more than a bare Captain of Horfe, without any 

 hopes of riling to any higher preferment, travel'd into the Indus, to ferve the 

 Great Mogul, who was then Geban-guir, with an intention of raifing his For- 

 tune in a Itrange Country. Gehan-guir had then many Enemies, the Kings of 

 Golconda and t^ijapour being in Rebellion againit him, and feveral Rajas having 

 taken their part. So foon as he came to kifs the Kings Hands, the King took 

 a liking to him_, and gave him immediately the Command of five hundred 

 Horfe. And becaufe he was very well skill'd in Aitrology, ( which is a Science 

 to which the Afiatickj are very much addicted ) the King eiteem'd him the 

 more, and in a fhort time made him General of his Army. But afterwards, 

 forgetting his duty, and the benefits he had received, he join'd with Sultan 

 Kofrou, Geban-guir's cldelr. Son ; and having gain'd a great part of the Army, 

 they confpir'd together to depofe the King, and fet up his Son in his itead. 

 There was at that time in the Court, an Eunuch of great wit, who did more 

 mifchief to the Army in his Clofet, than he could have done in the field. 

 This Eunuch, lb foon as intelligence was brought of the Rebellion, told the 

 King, that if his Ma;efty pleas'd, he would deliver Kofrou and the Perfian Ge- 

 neral into his hands in a fhort time, without ib much as ftriking one ftroke, 

 or lofing one man. He was as good as his word in part, for he fo order'd 

 his bufinefs, by his politick contrivances, that the General was brought to the 

 King, who would not presently put him to death. Sultan Kofrou elcap'd that 

 bout,, and continued the War many years againft his Father, who at length took 

 him in Fight, and caus'd his eyes to be pull'd out. The King detaining the 

 General in cuftody, his Wife and his Daughter found a way to lave his life, as 

 you fhall hear. The Daughter of the Perfian General , who was his only 

 Child , was about fourteen years of Age , the molt accomplifh'd Beauty a: 

 that time in all the Kingdom ; me was raoft rarely educated, and could both 

 write and rqpd the Arabian, Perfian, and Indian Languages. The Mother and 

 the Daughter went every day to Court, to hear what would become of the 

 General } and underftanding at length, that the King intended either to put him 

 to death, or to banifh him, they came to the Haram, and calling themfelves 

 at his Majefties feet, they humbly begg'd pardon, the one lor her Husband, 

 t>he other for her Father ; which they eafily obtain'd j the King being furpriz'd 

 at the Beauty of the Virgin, to whom he afterwards furrender'd his Affections. 

 All the Court was aftoniin'd afterwards, how the General and his Wife could 

 keep, fo private, a Daughter that was Co incomparably fair, that it mould not 

 come to the Kings knowledg. At length he lov'd her fo tenderly, that not 

 being able to deny her the liberty of Reigning one whole day in his place, 

 he gave her leave to fhare with him afterwards in the Government. And me 

 it was, that gave motion to all the moft important Aiairs of State; the King 

 excufing himfelf to the Grandee's of his Court, who wonder'd why he let the 

 Queen bear fo great a fway , by telling them that -flie was fit for the Go- 

 vernment, and that it was time for him to take his eafe. 



Ftg. i, and 2. is as all the reft are, the backfide of the Twelve Signs. Fig. 1. 

 is the backfide of the Ram, and Fig. 2. of Cancer. Both of them fignifie the 

 fame thing ; it being the Name of the King, Queen, and City where they were 

 ftamp'd. Thefe two were coin'd at Amadabat. 



The Gold, Silver, and Coffer Money which the Portugals coin in 



the Eaft Indies. 



THe Gold which the Portugals Coin \nGoa is better than our Louijfe's of Gold, 

 and weighs one grain more than our half Piftol. At the time when I was in 

 Goa > this piece was worth four R9ttpi<f t or fix frmtkf* They hold it up at fo 



high 



