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MAY, 1906.) THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL). 137
I was peent when they were prented to ye Magull, who Comanded yo sword to be broken & stampt to poother & burnt, And sent ye horsses to seuerall Christian doores where theire heads were Cutt of & they burnt wth all theire Ornaments, And the Ashes of them & theire furniture throwne into ye River.39
Shaw Bash Dyed, [26th August 1666], Soe ye Magull wthdrew his army sayinge he would not disturbe a Child in his sorrowes for his father, nor should other princes say he took advantages not honorbloc
Mad The Magull, at his first comeinge to y Crowne, tooke all base advantages, but now setled & fixt in y. Empire, he is a mighty honnorado.
In the yeare 1669, the Magull marcht wth a great Army towards Candabor wth three yeares pertions [? rations]. & swore by his beard hee would never leave it, till he had taken it, wch vndoubtedly he will, And then he hath an inlett into Pertia, for there is noe other way by reason of the Mountans, Nor ought to hinder his march to Ispawhawne save the Pertian Army, wch now is devided into 3 three parts, vizt One against the Turke at Bossara [Basrah), the 24 second against a Collony of Hutterritts, 1 & kind of Christians consisting of about 10000, And this prince, tho small, Texes him by Sea for he hath bat a verry small Isleland, And Generally his wife, Children and all his people aboard his Vessells, wch are small & runs vnder ye pertian vessells. And his way is to Jand his people on yo Pertion shore & take away whole Townes of people & plunder & Carrie them aboard his shipps, & if they can redeeme themselues, he accepts of ransome & ye goods he carries to his Isleland, woh yo Pertian cannot come at for yo reason aboue, his vessells being small & y pertians great, gets vnder them and sinks them by some art they haue.
Att the tyme I was at Ispawhawne, this Chiefe of ye Hutteretts gent 4 of his Chiefe men to Shaw Sollymon, now Kinge of Pertia, as Embassador, to desire he would give them a peece of land and be theire ptecter and they would doe him homage. But ye Kinge beheaded them all 4 ;, wch makes them doe all the mischeife they can in his Contrey, vol is great, on those townes weh lie on the Sea Coast. Att one tyme they tooke & kild 1500.
Johnabadd, 1668. In the yeare 1609 or there abouts, Jogeern [Jahangir], Emperrer of Industion," had to his Councell in Chiefe Allan Cown" who got vnder y Empergreate Riches, yo emperor warringe wth ye Gentues & conquerd them wth theire pedegoge (pagoilas), and before his Death caused it to be buried in his howse Cald Old Dilley (Delhi) in John a Badd. After his death, the then Emperor made greate serch, knoweing he had vast Riches, But not fyndinge it, It hath ca[u] sed continuall serch to this day, 1670, There haueinge beene, since Jogeeres tyme, Saiahan Empero & Now Oram Zebb.
Mdd yt Jogeere (Jahangir], by pnnnishinge some of Alla Caws Generation, mad a discovery, yo he gott Six Ollyfante Load of Tresure, wch was esteemed worth 3000000 Thirty hundred thowsand pounds sterling money, wch hath Caused a Jealosy (suspicion] to this day great tresure is yet in that how se.
Ma Thatt Allam Cawne, second to Jogeere Emperor, in Año 1507 [? 1607), was imployed by ye Emperor in his warts wth y Gentues who weere many petty Nations. Great riches they had, The Dymond Mines and other Jewells beinge found in theire Contreys, And ye great pride of ye Gentues is to adorne theire pagodays, theire gods & places where the[y] put them, some beinge a Cow,
* Compare Bernier's account of the reception of the present: Constable's ed. pp. 146-151. ** This statement is supported by contemporary writers.
+1 The writer refers to the trouble which was given to Shah 'Abbas and Salimän by the Kodarite Arab pirates of Al-Kadar on the Eastern side of the Persian Gulf and on the Shatt-al-Arab mouths of the Tigris and Euplustes. These are referred to by Chardin, Coronation of Solyman III., 1691, p. 1. It is not likely that there were may Christians amongst them, though there might have been Muha 12 Jabangir nscended the throne in Oct. 1805.
s ? a mistake for Asaf Khan.
