ï?artIIL Trawls into the IN DIE S. 551 ' 
the Air. This little Kingdom is very populous, hath feveral Towns , and The beauty of 
a great many Bourgs. It is full of lovely Plains, which are here and there 
intercepted by pleafaht little Hills, and delighttul Waters; Fruits it hath in 
abandance, with agreeable Verdures. The Mountains which are all Inha- 
bited on the fides , afford fo lovely a profpc6t by the great variety of 
Trees, aipongft which ftand Mofques, Palaces, and other Strudures , that 
it is impoffible perfpedivc can furnifli a more lovely Landskip. The Great 
Mogul hath a Houfe of Pleafure there, wtih a ftately Garden, and the Mag- 
nificence of all is fo much the greater, that the King w'ho built it , adorned 
it with the fpoils of the Gentiles Temples, amongft which there are a great 
many prêtions Things. 
King Ecbar fubdued this Kingdom , which was before poffeft by â King K.;ng Echar 
m.mtajttfiaf-)can: He being Vi£toi:ious in all places, wrote to this Prince fubdued c«<-y&- 
that there was no Appearance he could maintain a War againft the Empe- 
rbur of the Indies jio whom all othei: Princes fubmitted -, that he adviled him ^f^"/-*^"». 
to do as they had done -, and that he piromifed him,if he would fubmit wil- ^'"| °^ 
lingly, witfioiit trying the fortune ofWar, he would ufe him better than 
he had done the reft; and that his Potver inftead of being leffened,ftouJd be 
' encreafed , feeing he was refolved to deny him nothing that he Ihould ask. 
yaftaf-cah (who was a peaceable Prince ) thinking it enough to leave his 
Son in his Kingdom , came to wait upon the Great Mogul at the Town of La- 
bors , trufting to his word : He paved him Hommage -, and the Emperour 
having confirmed the Promife which he made to him in his Letters, trea- 
ted him with all civility. 
In the mean time Prince Jacoh'i^ Infiafs Soh, would not flop there : For be- facth, the Son 
ing excited by the greateft part of the People of the Kingdom, who looked o^fufiaf-ean. 
upon the Dominion of the Moguls as the moft terrible thing imaginable j 
he caufed hiirifelf to be proclaimed King , made all neceflfary preparations 
in theCouhtrey , and at the fame timefecufed the PafTes and Entries into 
it -, which was not hard to be done, becaufe there is no coming to it , but by 
ftreights and narrow paffes \vhicn a few Men may defend. His Conduo: • 
highly difplcafed the Great Mogul, who thought at firft that there was In- 
telligence betwixt the Father and Son \ but he found at length, that there 
was none : And without offering any bad ufage to the Father, he fent an Ar- 
my againft Cachmir , wherein he employed feveral great Lords and Officers 
of War , who had followed Juftaf~can. He had fo gained them by his Ci- 
vilities and Promifcs , that they were more devoted to him , than to their 
own Prince ; and they being perfedly well acquainted with the ftreights cadmirian 
and avenues of the Mountains , introduced the Moguls into the Kingdom , Officers intrc- 
fome through Places that belong to them, and others by By-ways that could ^uce the Mo- 
iiot poffibly have been found, without the condud of thofe who knew the ^"'^^ 
Countrey exadly. They fucceeded in their Defign the more eafily, that 
King Jacob thought of nothing but guarding the moft dangerous places , and 
efpecially the Pais of Bambsr , which is the eafieft way for entring into 
Cachmir. • 
The Moguls having left patt of their Army at Bamber , to amufe Prince BamitK 
Jacob^znd his Forces marched towards the higheft Mountains, whither the 
Omras of Cachmir led them : There they found fmall paffages amongft the 
Rocks , that were not at all to be miftrufted : By thele places they entred 
one after another, and at length, meeting in a place where theRendez-vous 
was appointed -, they had Men enough to make a Body fufficiently able to 
furprize (as theydid.in the Night-time) the Capital City which wanted 
Walls , where j^<îw^C<ïw was taken. Nevertheleis Ecbar pardoned him, 
and allowed Him and his Father , each of them a Penfion for their fubfi- 
ftence : But he made fure of the Kingdom which he reduced into a ProtincCi 
He annexed it to the Empire oî Mogoliflan^ and his Succeffours have enjoyed 
it to this prefent , as the pleafanteft Country in all their Empire. It yields The yearly Re- 
not the Great Mogul yearly jabove fiye or fix hundred thoufandf French Livres, venue of cath- 
mir. 
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