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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00549	An East-India colation; or a discourse of travels set forth in sundry obseruations, briefe and delightfull; collected by the author in a voyage he made unto the East-Indies, of almost foure yeares continuance. Written by C.F.	Farewell, Christopher.	1633 (1633)	STC 10687; ESTC S114627	32,033	108

felfe as at other times went againe to him and sitting right before him very neere he eyed me all over talking meane while to his then small company at length bids our Broker aske me concerning the clothes I wore what stuffe it was Where made And other questions to which I answered him In conclusion we took our leave and went home without a word of comfort a while after comes our Broker and tells Master Ald●…orth good tydings from Mocrob C●…an that if he could procure him my Suite wee should forthwith have our goods delivered us no sooner had Master Aldworth moved it unto me as a favour which I may not deny him I told him what ere it were I would grant it the word being spoken I presently brusht up my amiable Suite and sent it my Lord Mocro●… by the hand of our Broker who brought us the same Evening a Warrant under his Signet for our goods which the next morning to our much content I went and cleared our charge being more precious then life and our Reputation above all But what this humorous Lord did with my Suite I cannot tell save by our Brokers coniecture to shew unto his women who for a novelty though a toy was observed to preferre his fancy to halfe a Kingdome for he had seene many as good before and farre better when in his greatest pompe our chiefe Agent with all his Traine in our best bravery presented his Lordship from our Honourable Masters the Governour and Company at our first comming During our abode here we bought sundry Commodities as best liked us for our Returnes and to expell melancholy that it should not domineere being too much occasioned tooke our Recreation off the City Orchards and Fields but above all to observe the Apes in that peaceable habitation of Banians did not a little stirre my blo●…d with their Apish trickes on the Houses leaping from house to house in troupes with their little ones in clusters clutching about them making dayly worke for the Tyler and Mason by pulling out here a Tyle and there a stone till they had uncovered whole houses in quarters and halfe quarter●… and then through the Roofe as ieering the Inhabitants for their silly patience made such moppes and mowes at them such Friscoes and Carieres to and againe now and then letting fall a stone or a tyle upon their bombasted heads and thin shoulders and watching in the fall what became of it with twenty other trickes that it would make a Thiefe as they say slip his Halter and leape over the Gallowes if he might to see the sport and if a stone unlook'd for chanced to come amongst them that they tooke in so high a derision to bee disturb'd in their Worke that they would flye at a man with open mouth as if they meant to swallow him this goodly sight being also to bee seene a great part of the Country thereabout whole Fields alive and the Trees covered with over-growne Apes and Monkies Parrats and Paraquites chattering and leaping from Bough to Bough till come to the top and then shew their teeth and theyr tayles to Passengers for a salutation Thus and thus to and fro changing our wearied thoughts from sadder obiects wee entertained the way in company of Mocrob Chan and his Las●…ar till the third day from Cambaya early in a morning wee entred Amada●…az that great and populous Citie the Metropolis of all those parts of Guizerat famous for Nobility and gentry as also for rich trade in variety Indicoes especially by meanes of a generall confluence of most Nations in the world E●…glish Dutch Portugals Iewes Armenians Arabians Medes and Persians Turkes and Tartarians cum multis alijs in whose Streets through the multiplicity of people all enforce theyr passage by theyr P●…ones or Footmen with their speares and other weapons running before the coach or horse like Absal●… his fifty men 2. Sam. 15. 1. Crying Poyce Poyce give way there who serve as well for like necessities as for State being in number more or fewer according to the qualitie and abilitie or the pleasure of the person which none of credit are or dare be without Here we tooke a house and setled a Factory applyed our selves to our businesse as seasons and occasions were offered meane while for our better proceeding we visite the Governour Abdala ●…han and present him signifie the cause of our comming desiring his leave and Noble favour in whatsoever case of Iustice we might have cause to use him for which we should be ready at all times most Noble Festus to shew our selves gratefull unto his Lordship Our suit was accepted together with our Present Our selves bid welcome and a place appointed us where to sit being in a spacious and princely Court in the middest of a great multitude of Chans and Beagues or Lords and Gentlemen that twice a day morning and Evening duely came to visite him this being th●…t I take it which is spoken of in Scripture as of Iob in the East and of other great men sitting in the Gate or in publike to heare Causes and do Iustice every one taking his place according to his degree or at this great Viceroyes appoyntment having first given him a Salam or low Congee and all Crosse-legged on Turky Carpets spread on the ground curiously paved or playstered with playster of Pallas as likewise theyr walles shining like Alablaster whereon they tread with their bare feet as also in their Churches leaving their slip-shooes at the doore or aloofe off at the edge of the Entrance like a Shoomakers well furnisht Shop or Warehouse All rich or brightly attyred as I have sayd according to the season himselfe with a few of the principals sitting somewhat apart on a little higher ascent at his Pallace doore big enough for his corpulent body and no more with no lesse Maiesty me thought in all but that and the Capateria or Shoe-makers ware then might well beseeme the greatest Prince in the World Drums beating Souldiers guarding Noble Gentlemens Servants aloofe off in Troupes attending and Coaches at the Court Gate in thicke heapes wayting the dissolution of this great Assembly sitting sometimes heere sometimes removing but ever in a place presenting both State and delight for magnificent buildings beautifull Ponds and Water-workes pleasant Orchards and the like and in this honorable presēce euery new Moone the common women of the City in their long sloppes and short Coates present themselues by turnes with Timbrels and Dances wanton Songs and antique gestures for their sport and recreation so continuing till the Viceroy please to dismisse them all this in generall besides their particular Solemnities as I have sayd before in the Night seasons wherewith my Story end●… and welcome Gentlemen to a short Colation with thanks for your gentle patience in taking penance at so homely a pittance and my well-wishings of good refreshings to you all FINIS Gentle Reader AS I haue invited thee so let me now aduise or

rather intreat thee that having read mee thou wilt not rashly censure me my intent throughout was to giue content not to some but all which in one respect or other I hope answers my d●…sire onely herei●… lyes all my doubt least offence might be taken heere and there at my seeming Osten tation but leave that to GOD whilest my heart I am sure condemnes me not perhaps there may be Cause and then to boast is wisdome both in the Opinion and practise of the wis●…st what I haue done hath beene with as much respect to thy good as my owne in removing my Candle frō vnder a Bushell to set it fairly on a Candlestick to the end that with the light there of I may see and be seene of all for of all things I abhorre ●…o sit in darkenesse Great is the benefit of Light by it Confusion is banished Co●…trarieties are knowne and distinguisht dangers declined and good things embraced It is the eye-sight of knowledge from whence proceeds the due estimation we yeeld vnto men as all things else but chiefly for their proper and most essentiall or intellectuall parts euen Wisdome thereafter to use or refuse them And now Gentle Reader for the writing of Bookes so in generall aword or two vnder Correction in some defence thereof I hope will not f●…ll amisse prouided that neither Church nor State be dishonoured or any particular person thereby iustly offended True it is and none but the vnwise can den●…it that S●…ollers for their rare guists of 〈◊〉 are most sit to write for publike vse hauing a thousand times wisht my selfe a Scholler for the singular benefits that haue their confluence to a man by Academicall well managed Arts yet that all others should be excluded or not any that will of vnderstanding and honest life vpon good occasion the Premisses considered should be allowed of I know not yet one reason of many me thinkes to the contrary to ratisie that opinion for if wee consider the many benefits for one inconvenience thereupon ensuing that stand up to plead for a generall tolleration not one of a hundred I suppose even of Schollers themselues but will ioyne with them in theyr ready approbation For first of all is not that Noble Science of PRINTING made the more to flourish Doe not the Masters and Artificers thereof become able not onely for their private Families but also Common-wealths men When their Presses through a generall supply of Coppies never want worke Are not Shops the better furnisht with Bookes and kept open by a frequent concourse of all sorts of Buyers through the variety and choyce of matter there to bee had for a small piece of mony to profit themselves by other mens labours of an incomparable value Doth not the reading of a few harmelesse lines entertayne divers from worse exercises whom else perhaps better things would scarce content 〈◊〉 had it not beene profitable for many to have exercised themselves in writing of some Manuscript whilest Idlenesse and ill-Company have beene their utter bane and ruine And how many have improved theyr parts and vacant times unto a good sufficiency of doing Service both in Church and Common-weale wherein to the honor and profit of both they have lived by applying themselves to vertuous studie●… and writing their Observations that never perhap●… eate bread in a Vniversitie Or why doth our State at present in a sort allow of or connive at this tolleration under the foresayd Provisoes but for these or the like godly and civill policies no doubt Besides other reasons which I leave to others but if none of these will passe for current yet could I wish Gentle Reader that Travellers in due honor to their Travailes may have a place though the lowest in this honourable Priviledge with Schollers and Poets even for their experience ●…ake A man that hath travelled sayth wise Strach knoweth many things and hee that hath much experience will declare Wisedome he that hath no experience knoweth little but he that hath travayled is or should be full of Prudence to wit a man of Counsell and Action of discourse and resolution Eccles 34. 9. 10. For they commonly see and conceive more abroad the●… others sitting at home as being deeper engaged upon strange Occurrents having their senses exercised their bodyes and minds hardened by sundry difficulties and surviving many dangers diving into the different dispositions of m●…n and observing from a selfe-knowing knowledge the good and the evill among all sorts of people wisedome also insinuating it selfe there after a more familiar fashion then elsewhere and thenceforth disposing them oft times with small helps and due incouragements unto the weightiest aff●…res in whose short lines may b●…e read large Observations of the Divine Power and Providence to the Glory of God and the publike good by the right use which ingenuous minds make of all things and to which ends onely they ought to be written When I travailed I saw many things and I understand mo●…e then I can expresse I was oft times in danger of death yet was I delivered because of these things Eccles. 34. 11. 12. To communicate experience therefore is as commendable as profitable being that which in all ages hath ever been allowed of required and practised by the wisest Wis. 7. 13. Eccles. 39. 8. Psal. 40. 10. For experienc●… that is hid and treasure that i●… hoarded up what profit or not prejudice rather is in eyther And better is he that hideth his folly then a man that hideth his wisedome or Experience be it never so little upon least occasion of doing good therewith Eccles. 20. 30. 31. As appeares by that slothfull Servant who hiding his Talent instead of Modesty incurr'd a censure of folly Mat. 25. 24. 25. 26. Thus Gentle Reader hauing satisfied thee I hope in my best wishes I commend thee as my selfe to the protection of the Almighty and bid thee heartily fare-well in CHRIST CHR. FAREWELL Eccles. 6. 14. 15. A faithfull Friend is a strong defen●…e and he that hath found such a one hath found a Treasure Nothing doth countervaile a faythfull Friend for his Ex●…ellency is v●…valuable I. PET. 1. Adde to your Faith Vertue or Industrie ANd now to shut up 〈◊〉 Indian Discourse with a word or two of Spaine being n●…xt unto 〈◊〉 in Portugal on Christian shore my first and onely place of forraigne residence where if I may not seeme to praise my selfe having little else to boast of in the short Catalogue of my good workes there save onely the releasing of an English Marchant out of Prison I would willingly entertaine anew my Courteous Reader with a short Storie of an accident wherein God made mee the Instrument of much good unto another but the wise I hope will eyther discerne a cause of my boasting or ●…t the worst will ascribe it to the common humour of Travailers who love to tell of things they have seene and done abroad in the world and so at least to excuse me