i2o Travels in India. Part H 



to force the Palace, and after they had put all the Royal Family to the Sword, to 

 proclaim him King of Arakan. But this Plot being difcover'd the day it fhould 

 have been executed, Sultan St.jab, and Sultan Bangui his Son, had no other way 

 to fave themfclves, but by Might into the Kingdom of Pegu. But their way lying 

 over Mountains almoft impaiiable, and through thick Forrefts full of Tigers and 

 Lions, and being alfb clolely purfu'd, their flight avaiPd them little or nothings 

 Sultan Bangi'.c however being behind, to keep the Purfuers in play while his Fa- 

 ther and his Family gaind ground, ftoutly defended himfelf againft the firft Af- 

 failants, but at length being overpower'd by number, he was taken together with 

 his two little Brothers, his Mother and his Sifters ; who were all put in Priibn, 

 where they were very ill-us'd. But fome time after, the King having a defire to 

 marry theeldeft Sifter of Sultan Bangue 3 they had a little more liberty allow'd 

 them. However they enjoy'd it not long, for the young Prince being of a tur- 

 bulent and ambitious fpirit, plotted new treasons againft the King, which being 

 difcover'd, the King immediately caus'd the whole Family to be put to death, not 

 fparing the young Princefs his Wife, though (he were big with Child. 



As for Sultan Snjah t who was formoft among thole that fled, it is moft generally 

 thought that either he was (lain by the Souldiers who were lent to apprehend 

 him, or that he was torn in pieces by the Tigers and Lions ■, of which thole For- 

 feits are full. 



C K A P. VII. 



Of the foginnivg afAurcng-zcbV Reign, and the Qu&h of €ha-}ehan 



his Father. 



SOme days before he afcended the Throne, he fent to his Father to fend him 

 fbme of his Jewels, to the end he might appear before his people with the 

 fame magnificence as his Predeceflbrs had done. Cba-jeban taking this requeft 

 of his Sons for an affront put upon him in Prifbn, fell into fuch a rage that he con- 

 tinu'd mad for fome days, and had like to have dy'd upon it. In the excels of his 

 vexation he call'd feveral times for a Morter and a Fettle, threatning to beat all his 

 Jewels to powder, before his Son fhould have them. But Begum-Saheb i his eldeft 

 Daughter, never forfook him, throwing her felf at his feet, and by vertue of that 

 criminal power which (he had over him, as being both his Daughter and his 

 Wife, kept him from ufing that extremity ; more out of a defign to preferve the 

 Jewels for her felf than for her Brother, to whom fhe had always been a mortal 

 enemy. For this reafon, when Au.reng-z.eb afcended the Throne, he had no more 

 than one Jewel upon his Bonnet : This Bonnet cannot be call'd a Grown $ and by 

 confequence neither C3n the Ceremony be call'd a Coronation. 



At the time that Attreng-z-eb took poffefTion of the Throne, he would not eat 

 any wheaten- bread, nor meat, nor fiih, but fed upon barly-bread, herbs and iwcet- 

 meats, which was a kind of Penance that he impas'd upon himfelf for Co many 

 crimes. 



When Aureng-z.eb was fettl'd in the Empire, feveral Embaffadors came to fchar 

 nabat to congratulate him, on the behalf of the Kings their Mafters, as from the 

 King of the Vsbeckjartars, the Sheriif of Mecca, the Prince of Balfara, and the 

 Kings of Arabia Felix, and Ethiopia. The Hollanders alfb fent Menbeir Adricau, 

 ..chief of their Factory in Surat, who was kindly received, and firft difpatch'd. For 

 'tis a piece of State, to keep the Embaffadors a good while at Court before they 

 have Audience. All thefe Embaffadors prefented Aureng-z~eb with the rarities of 

 their Countrey j who to get himfelf a good name in Afia, fent them away very 

 well fatisfi'd. 



Some months before the death of Cha-jehan t Au.reng-z.cb fent an Embaflador 

 into Perfia, who was magnificently receiv'd. For a month together he was nothing 

 but feafred and carefs'd with all manner of divertifements. The day that he was 



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