io£ Travels in India. Part IT 



TRAVELS 



I N 



INDIA. 



The Second Book. 



Containing an Hiftorical and political Defcription 

 of the Empire of the Great Mogul. 



CHAP. L 



A Relation of the laft Wars of Indolitan ; which gives an infight 

 into the prefent Efiate of the Empire and Court oj the Moguls. 



IHave written this Hiftory in fuch manner, as I knew things to be trans- 

 acted, during my ftay in the Country ; leaving it to the Reader to make his 

 own reflections a he pleafes \ it being fuftkient tor me to make a faith- 

 ful defcription of the Potent Empire of the Moguls . according to M 

 Obfervations I have taken upon the place. 



This great and vaft Emp; : e which contains the greateft part of Indolflan, 

 and which extends from the Mountains on this fide the River Indus, to the 

 Mountains on the other fide of Ganges j borders Eaftward upon the Kingdoms 

 of Aracan, Tpra, and Afia. Toward the Weft upon Perfia, and the Vsbeg Tartars, 

 Southward upon the Kingdoms of Gokonda and Vfapour. Northward it runs 

 up as far as the Mountain Caucafm. North-Eaftward the Kingdom of Bantam, 

 whence comes our Musk, parts it. North- Weitward it borders upon the Coun- 

 try of C begat hay, or the Vsbegs. 



They are call'd Moguls, that is, white of complexion ; for the laft Conque- 

 rors of the Indies were Whites ; the Natives being all Brown, or Olive-colour. 



Amcng-zab, the prefent Emperor, is the eleventh in a dircft line, of the 

 Defcendants from the great Temur-Leng, commonly call'd Tamerlane; the ex- 

 tent and renown of whofe Conquefts, from China to Poland, has exceeded all 

 the actions of the greateft Captains of the former Ages. His Succeffors corn- 

 pleated the Conqueft of all India between the two Rivers, with the deftruftioa 

 of feveral Kings. So that Aureng-z.eb has at this time under his Dominion, 

 the Territories of Gouzerat, Decan-Debly, 'Mutton, Labor, Ka/bemire, Bengal*, 

 and many other Territories ; not to mention feveral Raja's, or petty Kings, who 

 pay him Tribute, and are his Vaflals. The Succeffion of the Kings of India is 

 as follows : 



i. Termur-Leng, that is to fay, the Lame, becaufe one of his Legs was fhorter 

 than the other, lyes buried at Samarkand, in the Country of Cheo-athay, or the 

 Vtbeg Tartars, being the place of his Nativity, 



2. Mir am- 



