12 An account of the Money of Asia. Part II. 



of the Indians defcended : nnd therefore for his fàtisfaction, I will tell him in a 

 few words. Her Father,, a Perjianby 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, travefd into the Indies, to ferve the 

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

 tune in a ftrange Country. Gehan-gmr had then many Enemies, the Kings of 

 Golconda and Fifapour being in Rebellion againft him, and lèverai Raja's 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 rhe Command of five hundred 

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

 ro which the AJtatkks are very much addicted ) the King efteem'd him the 

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

 forgetting his duty, and the benefits he had received, he joh 7.' with Sultan 

 Kofrou, Gehan-guir's eldeft Son ; and having gain'd a great part *if the Army, 

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

 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, fo foon as intelligence was brought of the Rebellion, told the 

 King, that if his Majefty pleas'd, he would deliver Kcfrou and the Perjian Ge- 

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

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

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

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

 bout, and continu'd 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 làve his life, as 

 you (hall hear. The Daughter of the Perjian General , who was his only 

 Child, was about fourteen years of Age, the moft accomplifh'd Beauty at 

 that time in all the Kingdom ; fhe was moft rarely educated, and could both 

 write and read the Arabian, Perjian, and Indian Languages. The Mother and 

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

 General 5 and underftanding at length, that the King intended either to put him 

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

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

 the other for her Father ; which they eafily obtain'd ; the King being furpriz'd 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 it was, that gave motion to all the moft important Affairs 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 fhe was fit for the Go-^ 

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



Fig. 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. Thefè two were eoin'd at Amadabat. 



The Gold, Silver, and Copper Money which the Portugais coin in 



the Eaft Indies. 



THe Gold which the Portugais Coin in Goa is better than our Lomjfes of Gold, 

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

 6oa 9 this piece was worth four Roupits, or fix Franks, They hold it up at fo 



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