Part III. Travels into ^ I N D I E S. 5 
After his death, his Grandfon BouUoquoy Reigned about Three Months, Bui/oquoy. 
but he was ftrangled by Order of Sultan Corom, a Rebel Son of Gehanguir^ Coram, 
who having made fure of the Empire, took to iiimfelf the Name of Cha- cha^ehan. 
geban in the Year 1628. 
Seeing Blood and Rebellion raifed him to the Throne, he had experi- 
ence of the fame diforders amongft his Children, which he had caufed to 
his Father^ for through their jealoufiehis Empire was almoft always in 
confulion, and at length fell into the hands of Auranub the Third of his yiuranzeh. 
Four Sons, who Reigns at prefent. 
In mounting to the Throne, this Prince imitated the crimes of his Fa- 
ther -, for he put to death Dara his Eldell: Brother, imprifoned Mourad his 
other Brother v/ho confided in him, and clapt up his own Father in Prifon, The death of 
who died Five or Six Years after, about the end of the Year 1666. chagehan. 
The Great Mogul is certainly a moll: Powerful Prince, as we may Judge The Power of 
by his Riches, Armies, and the number of People that are within the ^^^^ i^^ogul. 
extent of his Empire. His yearly Revenues, they fay, mount to above : 
Three hundred and thirty French Millions. The Canon Name^ which is a TheRcgiflred 
Regifter containing a Lift of his Forces, makes it appear, that that Prince Forces of the 
entertains Three hundred thoufand Horfe, of which betwixt Th irty and 
Thirty five thouland, with ten thoufand Foot are for a Guard to his Per- 
fon both in time of Peace and W ar, and are commonlv quartered in thofe 
places where he keeps his Court. This Empire extends from Eaft to Weft 
above Four hundred Leagues, and from North to South above Five hun- 
dred, and that vaft fpace, (excepting ibme Mountains and Deferts,) is lb 
full of Towns, Caftles, Burroughs and Villages, and by confequence of 
Inhabitants who till the Land, or emprove it by manufa6tures, and the 
commerce which that Country affords, that it is eafie to judge of the Power 
of the King who is Mafter thereof. 
The true bounds of his Empire are to the Weft, Macran or Sinde and The Bounds of 
Candahar ; to the Eaft, it reaches beyond the Ganges \ to the South it is li- MoguUflan, 
mited by Decan, the great Sea and the Gulf of Bengale-, and to the North 
by the Tartars. The exagération of many Travellers, concerning the ex- 
tent of the Countries of this great King of the Tndies,w^s the caufe that 1 made 
it my bufinefs to confult the moft knowing Men, that I might learn what 
they thought of thegreatnefsof it, and what now I write is their Opinion. 
They affirm not as feme do, that when the Mogul makes War, he fends Theirue For- 
Three hundred thoufand Horfe into the field. They fay, indeed, that he "^^^^^^ "^'^^ 
pays fo many but feeing the chief Revenues, or to fay better, the rewards ^" ' 
of the Great Men, confift particularly in the pay which they have for more 
or fewer Troopers, it is certain that they hardly keep on Foot one half of 
the Men they are appointed to have -, fo, that when the Great Mogul marches 
upon any expedition of War, his Army exceeds not an Hundred and fifty 
thoufand Horfe, with very few Foot, though he have betwixt Three and 
four hundred thoufand Mouths in the Army. 
Befides, I was informed by any Indian who pretends to know the Map of 
his Country, that they reckon no more but twenty Provinces within the 
extent of Mogulifian in the Indies, and that they who have reckoned more, 
have not been well informed of their number, fince of one Province they 
have made two or three. 
This Indian had a lift of the Princes Revenues calculated for the twenty 
Provinces, and I made no doubt of the truth of his Syftem -, but I had ra- Twenty Pro- 
ther call them Governments, and fay that every Government contains fe- ^'""^ ^^"^ 
veral Provinces. I fhall obfervethe Revenues of the Governments, in the ^^^T^/Xw" 
difcription I give of them, and fhall call each Government a Province, that 
I may not vary from the mémoires which I have -, and as I entered the In- 
dies by the Province of Guzerat^io I (hall defcribe it before the others. 
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