Malek Tocam Got Notice Of
This At A Country House In Which He Occasionally Resided, Whence He Fled
From Rume Khan.
After this Badur came to Diu which he reduced, having
arrived there at the same time with Nuno de
Cuna, when the interview
between the governor and him was proposed; but which Badur only intended
as a feint to ward off the danger which he apprehended from the padishah
of the Moguls; meaning, if he could patch up an agreement with that
sovereign, to break with the Portuguese. But the Mogul recalled his
ambassadors and commenced war upon Bader, of which hereafter.
Those whom we name Moguls call themselves Zagetai, in the same manner
as the Spaniards call themselves Goths. Zagetai is the name of the
province which they inhabited in Great Tartary near Turkestan, and the
nobles do not permit themselves to be called Moguls. According to the
Persians, the Moguls are descended of Magog the grandson of Noah, from
whom they received the worship of the one only God. Wandering through
many provinces, this nation established themselves in Mogalia or
Mongolia, otherwise Mogostan, called Paropamissus by Ptolemy. At
this time they extend farther, and border upon the kingdom of Horacam
or Chorassan, called Aria, or Here by that ancient geographer.
From the extreme north, the Moguls extend to the river Geum or
Jihon, which runs through Bohara or Bucharia, the ancient
Bactria, so named from its capital, the celebrated seat of learning
from the time of Zoroaster, and where Avicenna acquired the
knowledge which made him so famous. Bucharia, or Bactria borders
upon Quiximir or Cashmire and Mount Caucasus, which divides India
from the provinces of Tartary in the north. This kingdom of the Moguls
now reaches to the mountainous regions of Parveti and Bagous which
they call Angou [199]. As in this dominion there ace great mountains,
so there are likewise very large and fruitful plains, watered by five
rivers which compose the Indus. These are the Bet, Satinague, Chanao,
Rave, and Rea[200]. The cities of this country are numerous and, the
men courageous.
[Footnote 199: De Faria becomes here unintelligible, unless he here
means the range of mountains which bound Hindostan, particularly on the
north-west, including Cashmir and Cabul; which seems probable as
immediately followed in the text by the Punjab, or country on the
five rivers composing the Indus. - E.]
[Footnote 200: These rivers are so strangely perverted in their
orthography as hardly to be recognisable, and some of them not at all.
The true Punjab or five rivers is entirely on the east of the Indus,
Sinde or Nilab. Its five rivers are the Behut or Hydaspes, Chunab or
Acesinas, Rauvee or Hydraotes, Setlege or Hesudrus, and a tributary
stream of the last named the Hyphasis by the ancients. These two last
are the Beyah and Setlege of the moderns. The Kameh and Comul run into
the Indus to the west of the Punjab - E.]
The Moguls are of the Mahometan religion, using the Turkish and Persian
languages.
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