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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63407	A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ...	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund.	1680 (1680)	Wing T250; ESTC R35212	152,930	194

place where the Mass was said that one of the Fryers just ready to go to the Altar came forth to desire him to leave his blaspheming But Beber's insolence took his admonition so ill that he very rudely beat the Fryer in Mr. Thevenot's presence swearing That had it not been out of respect to him he would have knockt him o' the head The Capuchin being so injuriously us'd came to Me being hardly able to stir his neck by reason of one of the blows that Beber had given him I chaft his neck with Oyl of Coco's and wrapt it up warm but we durst not speak a word of Beber's idle action for fear of exposing our selves to the laughter of the English and Hollanders who would have made good sport with it Besides these Enormities he put away his Servant that had sav'd his Life and kept his Wages After that he went to lye at an Apothecaries house whose Name was Mouillon who came from Goa with a good quantity of Portugal Wine and kept a Tavern at Surat While he lay there he had a great Contest with the Merchant who receiv'd the 24000 Roupies which the King had given him for the loss which he alleadg'd that he and his Chyrurgeon had sustain'd For the Merchant would acknowledge the receipt of no more then 23900 Roupies the other Hundred being deducted for Fees of the Treasury He also maintain'd That the Merchant had receiv'd the 12000 Roupies which the King had allow'd him for the loss of his Blood but it was known that the Grand Treasurer would never pay that Money Thus when he saw that his Cheats were discover'd to all the World he began to bethink himself how to get away and we observ'd that he would fain have quitted Surat without noise But there is such good Order taken both by Land and Sea that no person can go away without the knowledge and leave of the Governour For as the Countrymen that come from the other side of the water cannot return unless they shew a mark in their hands made with red Earth at the Custom-house neither Horse nor Coach can stir without a Note from the Chabander and another for the Radars who lye sometimes two or three Leagues from the Town Beber nevertheless had some assurance from his Vintner that he might get into a Boat by bidding the Boatmen carry him to Reynel a large Town on the other side of the water The Master of the Boat ask'd him for his Ticket but Beber answer'd him with his Cudgel forcing him forward and telling him he was not to demand Billets of such a person as he was As he was got half way the River a great number of Souldiers hollow'd after the Boatmen to row the Strangers back ashoar But Beber laid his hand upon his Sword and compell'd the Boatmen to go forward That evening Beber being return'd the poor Boatmen were apprehended and bastinado'd till they were almost maim'd The people cri'd out that it was the Frangui that ought to be so serv'd and not the poor Watermen who had done nothing but by constraint Thus did this Envoy behave himself both in Persia and India to the great hindrance of the French Nation Now let us see what became of both Boulaye and Beber after all their Extravagancies The Sieur de la Boulaye according to the accompt given by the Hollanders that were at Agra left the Town five or six days after my departure Knowing I went to Surat he had plaid his game so well with me that he got a Hamper of twelve large bottles of Wine for 138 Roupies though they cost me more for which he gave me a Note of his hand that I have still in my custody to be paid at Surat upon the arrival of the French Companies ships From thence he travell'd to Patna where he staid nine or ten days partly with the English partly with the Hollanders from whence he departed for Daca the Residence of the Governour of the Province The Governour of the Province of Bengale was then the Great Mogul's Uncle whose name was Cha-Est-Kan a potent Prince who has always under his Command thirty or forty thousand men At Patna Boulaye had a project that from thence he might easily pass into China and to that purpose he there embarqu'd with some Persian Souldiers who were going to list themselves under Cha-Est-Kan But after that to this hour it never could be certainly known what became of him but by all probable conjectures it is verily believ'd that the Persian Souldiers murder'd him and his little Slave in hopes of some good booty Of the truth whereof the Observation that follows was no small evidence About a quarter of a mile from Daca lies a Town where five several mungrel Portugal Officers belonging to the Governour of Bengale as Canoneers and Carpenters and some of the same Nation that serve in the Cavalry of Cha-Est-Kan There they have also a small Church very well built where an Austin Fryar officiates to whom about three months after Boulaye's departure from Patna a certain Persian in the Habit of a Souldier with two more companions brought two large Books the one in Folio and the other in Quarto to sell The Fryar who was a mungrel also understood no Latin but finding them not to be in the Portugal Language would have stopp'd the Books as stoln from the Hollanders had not the Souldier been too strong for him These Books were thought to have been Boulaye's who to my knowledge had two Chests full well bound in reading whereof he spent the greatest part of his time His Avarice was his Ruine for had he taken a Bark by himself as I did when I went from Patna and had oblig'd the Watermen to give him good security he could have run no hazard For my part I took one with four and twenty men and every one knowing I never spar'd for cost gave me excellent security These Barks are little Galliots which will undertake to carry you to your journey's end and name your own day If you will lye ashoar every evening they will set up your Tents and stop at any Town or City to take in Provisions I never made so pleasant a Voyage in my life nor with less trouble For in these Barks there is a Room where the Sun cannot come in where you may repose in the day time and sit in the cool Air on that side from whence the Breez comes There is another place cover'd for your Kitchin and another little Garderobe for the private deeds of Nature By the way I kill'd great store of large Geese Cranes and Crocodiles which I gave the Watermen who were very glad of them for they sold them in the Towns as they row'd along The people in those quarters are very good natur'd and officious Dyet is little worth as being the place where you may buy a hundred Pullets for a Crown and for three or four Pence you may buy a Fish of a