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A19381	Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... .	Coryate, Thomas, ca. 1577-1617.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1618 (1618)	STC 5809; ESTC S118544	13,789	49

it had beene done The superscription Sent from Azmere the Court of the great and mightiest Monarch of the East called the Great MOGVLL in the Easterne Jndia To be conuaid To my deare and louing Mother Mris Garthered Coriat at her house in the Towne of Euill in Somersetshire I pray you deliuer this letter at Gerards Hall to Christopher Guppie a Carrier if he be yet liuing or else to some other honest trusty Messenger to be conuaid with all conuenient speed to the place aforesaid ❧ Master Thomas Coriats Commendations to his friends in FromAgra the Capitall City of the Dominion of the Great MOGOLL in the Easterne India the last of October 1616. Most deare and welbeloued Mother THough I haue superscribed my letter from Azmere the Court of the greatest Monarch of the East called the Great Magoll in the Eastern India which I did to this end that those that haue the charge of conueiance thereof perceiuing such a title may be the more carefull and diligent to conuey it safely to your hands yet in truth the place from which I wrote this letter is Agra a City in the said Eastern India which is the Metropolitan of the whole Dominion of the foresaid King Mogol 10 daies iourny frō his Court at the said Azmere Frō the same Azmere I departed the 12 day of September An. 1616 after my abode there 12 moneths 60 daies which though I confesse it were a too long time to remaine in one and the selfesame place yet for two principall causes it was very requisite for me to remaine there some reasonable time first to learne the languages of those Countries through which I am to passe betwixt the bounds of the Teritories of this Prince and Christendome namely these three the Persian Turkish and Arab which I haue in some competent measure attained vnto by my labour and industry at the said Kings Court matters as auaileable vnto me as mony in my purse as being the cheifest or rather onely meane to get me mony if I should happen to be destitute a matter very incidentall to a poore Footman Pilgrim as my selfe in these heathen and Mahometan Countries through which I trauell Secondly that by the helpe of one of those languages I meane the Persian I might both procure vnto my selfe accesse vnto the King be able to expresse my mind vnto him about the matter for the which I should haue occasiō to discours with him These were the reasōs that moued me so long to tarry at the Mogols court during which time I abode in the house of the English Merchants my deare Countrimen not spending one little peece of mony either for diet washing lodging or any other thing And as for the Persian tongue which I studied very earnestly I attained to that reasonable skill and that in a fewe moneths that I made an Oration vnto the King before many of his Nobles in that language and after I had ended the same discoursed with his Maiesty also in that tongue very readily familiarly the coppy of which speech though the tong it selfe wil seem to an Englishman very strange vncuth as hauing no kind of affinity with any of our Christian languages I haue for nouelty sake written out in this letter together with the translation thereof in English that you may shew it to some of my lerned friends of the Clergy and also of the temporalty in Euil and elswere who belike wil take some pleasure in reading so rare and vnusuall a tongue as this is The Persian is this that followeth ¶ The Copie of an Oration that I made in the Persian tongue to the great Mogoll before diuers of his Nobles HAzaret Aallum pennah salamet fooker Daruces ve tehaungeshta hastamkemta emadam az wellagets door ganne az mulk Inglizan ke kessanaion pet heē mushacas cardand ke wellagets mazcoor der akers magrub bood ke mader hamma rezzaerts dunmast Sabebbe amadane mari mia boosti char cheez ast auval be dedane mobarreckdeedars Hazaret ke seete caramat ba hamma Trankestan reeseedast ooba tamam mulk Musulmanan der sheenedan awsaffe Hazaret daueeda amadam be deedane astawne akdas musharaf geshtam duum bray deedane feelhay Hazaret kin chunm ianooar der heech mulk ne dedam seu in bray deedane namwer daryaee shumma Gauga ke Serdare hamma daryaha dumiest Chaharum een ast keyec fermawne alishaion amayet fermoyand ke betwanam der wellay●tts Vzbeck raftan ba shahre Samarcand bray Zeerat cardan cabbre mobarrec Saheb crawncah awsaffe tang oo mosachere oo der tamam aallum meshoor ast belkder wellagette Vzbec eencader meshoor neest chunan che der malc Inglisan a st digr bishare eshteeac daram be deedanc mobarrec mesare Saheb crawnca bray een sabeb che awne sama n che focheer de shabr stambol boodam ycaiaeb cohua amarat deedam dermean yecush bawg nasdec shaht mascoor coia che padshaw Eezawiawn che namesh Manuel bood che Saheb crawnca cush mehmannec aseem carda bood baad as gristane Sulten Baiasetra as iange aseem che shuda bood nas dec shahre Bursa coimache Saheb crawn Sultan Baiasetra de Zenicera tellaio bestand oo der cafes nahadondeen char chees meera as mulche man ium baneed tamia as mulc Room oo Arrac peeada geshta as door der een mulc reseedam che char hasar pharsang raw darad beshare derd oo mohuet casheedam che heech ches der een dunnia een cader mohuet ne casheedast bray deeaune mobarrec dedare Haseretet awn roos che be tacte shaugh ne shaughee m●sharaf fermoodand The English of it is this LOrd Protector of the world all haile to you I am a poore Traueller and world seer which am come hither from a farre country namely England which auncient Historians thought to haue been scituated in the farthest bounds of the West and which is the Queene of all the Ilands in the world The cause of my comming hither is for foure respects First to see the blessed face of your Maiesty whose wonderfull fame hath resounded ouer all Europe the Mahometan Countries Whē I heard of the fame of your Maiesty I hastened hither with speed and trauelled very cherefully to see your glorious Court Secondly to see your Maiesties Elephants which kind of beasts I haue not seen in any other country Thirdly to see your famous Riuer Ganges which is the Captaine of all the Rieuer of the world The fourth is this to intreat your Maiesty that you would vouchsafe to grant mee your gracious Passe that I may trauell into the Country of Tartaria to the Citty of Samarcand to visit the blessed Sepulcher of the Lord of the Corners this is a title that is giuen to Tamberlaine in this Country in that Persian language and wheras they call him the Lord of the Corners by that they meane that he was Lord of the corners of the world that is the highest and supreme Monarch of the Vniuerse whose fame

by reason of his warres and victories is published ouer the whole world perhaps he is not altogether so famous in his own Country of Tartaria as in England Moreouer I haue a great desire to see the blessed Toombe of the Lord of the Corners for this cause for that when I was at Constantinople I saw a notable old building in a pleasant garden neer the said City where the Christian Emperor that was called Emanuell made a sumptuous great Banquet to the Lord of the Corners after he had taken Sultan Batazet in a great battell that was fought neere the City of Bursia where the Lord of the Corners bound Sultan Batazet in fetters of Gold and put him in a cage of Iron These 4 causes moued me to come out of my natiue Country thus farre hauing trauelled a foote through Turky and Persia so farre haue I traced the world into this Country that my pilgrimage hath accomplished three thousand miles wherin I haue sustained much labour and toile the like wherof no mortall man in this World did euer performe to see the blessed face of your Maiesty since the first day that you were inaugurated in your glorious Monarchall throne After I had ended my speech I had some short discourse with him in the Persian tongue who amongst other things told me that concerning my trauell to the City of Samarcand he was not able to doe me any good because there was no great amity betwixt the Tartarian Princes and himselfe so that his commendatory letters would doe me no good Also he added that the Tartars did so deadly hate all Christians that they would certainely kill them when they came into their Country So that he earnestly diswaded me frō the iourny if I loued my life and welfare at last he concluded his discourse with me by a sum of mony that he threw downe from a windowe through which he looked out into a sheete tied vp by the foure corners and hanging very neer the ground a hundred peeces of siluer each worth two shillings sterling which coūteruailed ten pounds of our English mony this busines I carried so secretly by the help of my Persian that neither our English Ambassador nor any other of my Countrimen sauing one speciall priuate intrinsical friend had the least inkling of it till I had throughly accomplished my designe for I well knew that our Ambassador would haue stopped and Barracadocd all my proceeding therein if he might haue had any notice thereof as indeed he signified vnto me after I had effected my proiect aleaging this forsooth for his reason why he would haue hindered me because it would redound some what to the dishonour of our Nation that one of our Countrey should present himselfe in that beggarly and poore fashion to the King out of an insinuating humor to craue mony of him but I answered our Ambassador in that stout resolute manner after I had ended my busines that he was contented to cease nibling at me neuer had I more need of mony in all my life then at that time for in truth I had but twenty shillings sterling left in my purse by reason of a mischance I had in one of the Turkes Cities called Emert in the country of Mesopotamia where a miscreant Turke stripped me of almost all my monies according as I wrote vnto you in a very large letter the last yeer which I sent from the Court of this mighty Monarch by one of my Countrimen that went home by Sea in an English shippe laden with the commodities of this India which letter I hope came to your hands long since After I had been with the King I went to a certaine noble generous Christian of the Armeniā race 2 daies iourny frō the Mogols court to the end to obserue certain remarkable matters in the same place to whom by means of my Persian tongue I was so welcome that hee entertained me with very ciuill and courteous complement and at my departure gaue mee very bountifully twenty peeces of such kind of mony as the King had done before coūteruailing 40 shillings sterling About ten daies after that I departed frō Azmere the court of the Mogol Prince to the end to begin my Pilgrimage after my long rest of fourteen moneths back againe into Persia at what time our Ambassador gaue mee a peece of Gold of this Kings Coine worth foure and twenty shillings which I will saue if it be possible till my ariuall in England so that I haue receiued for beneuolences since I came into this country twenty markes sterling sauing two shillings eight pence by the way vppon the confines of Persia alitle before I came into this country three and thirty shillings foure pence in Persian mony of my Lady Sherly at this present I haue in the City of Agra where hence I wrote this letter about twelue pounds sterling which according to my maner of liuing vppon the way at two-pence sterling a day for with that proportion I can liue pretty well such is the cheapnes of all eatable things in Asia drinkable things costing nothing for seldome doe I drinke in my pilgrimage any other liquor then pure water will mainetaine mee very competently three yeeres in my trauell with meate drinke and clothes Of these gratuities which haue been giuen me willingly would I send you some part as a demonstration of the filiall loue and affection which euery child bred in ciuility and humility ought to performe to his louing and good mother but the distance of space betwixt this place and England the hazard of mens liues in so long a ioureny and also the infidelity of many men who though they liue to come home are vnwilling to render an account of the things they haue receiued doe not a little discourage me to send any precious token vnto you but if I liue to come one day to Constantinople againe for thither doe I resolue to goe once more by the grace of Christ and therehence to take my passage by land into Christendom ouer renouned Greece I wil make choice of some substantial faithfull Countriman by whom I will send some prety token as an expression of my dutifull and obedient respect vnto you I haue not had the oppertunity to see the King of Persia as yet since I came into this country but I haue resolued to goe to him when I come next into his Territories and to search him out wheresoeuer I can find him in his Kingdome for seeing I can discourse with him in his Persian tongue I doubt not but that going vnto him in the forme of a Pilgrime he will not onely entertaine me with good words but also bestow some worthy reward vpon me beseeming his dignity and person for which cause I am prouided before hand with an excellent thing written in the Persian tongue that I meane to present vnto him and thus I hope to get beneuolences of worthy persons to maintaine me in a competent

maner in my whole pilgrimage till I come into England which I hold to be as laudable a more secure course then if I did continually carry store of mony about mee In the letter which I wrote vnto you by an English ship the last yeere I made relation vnto you both of my iourny from the once holy Hierusalem hither and of the state of this Kings Court and the Customes of this Country therfore I hold it superfluous to repeat the same things againe but what the countryes are that I meane to see betwixt this and Christendome and how long time I will spend in each country I am vnwilling to aduertise you of at this present desiring rather to signify that vnto you after I haue performed my designe then before howbeit in few words I will tell you of certaine Cities of great renown in former times but now partly ruined that I resolue by Gods help to see in Asia where I now am namely ancient Babilon Nymrods Tower some few miles from Niniue in the same the Sepulcher of the Prophet Ionas spacious goodly Caire in Egypt heretofore Memphis vpō the famous Riuer Nilus where Moises Aron the children of Israel liued with king Pharaoh whose ruined Palace is shewed there til this day a world of other mouable things as memorable as any City of the whole world yeeldeth sauing only Ierusalem but in none of these or any other Cities of note do I determin to linger as I haue done in other places as in Constantinople and Azmere in this Easterne India onely some few daies will I tarry in a principall city of fame to obserue euery principal matter there and so be gone In this City of Agra where I am now I am to remaine about six weekes longer to the end to expect an excellent oportunity which then will offer it selfe vnto me to goe to the famous Riuer Ganges about fiue daies iourny from this to see a memorable meeting of the gentle people of this country called Baieans whereof about foure hundred thousand people go thither of purpose to bathe and shaue themselues in the Riuer and to sacrifice a world of gold to the same Riuer partly in stamped mony partly in massy great lumpes and wedges throwing it into the Riuer as a sacrifice and doing other strange Ceremonies most worthy the obseruation such a notable spectacle it is that no part of all Asia neither this which is called the great Asia nor the lesser which is now called Natolia the like is to be seen this shew doe they make once euery yeere comming thither from places almost a thousand miles off and honour their Riuer as their God Creator and Sauiour superstition and impiety most abominable in the highest degree of these brutish Ethnicks that are aliens from Christ the common-wealth of Israel After I haue seen this shew I wil with all expedition repaire to the city of Lahore twenty daies iourny from this and so into Persia by the helpe of my blessed Christ Thus haue I imported vnto you some good accidents that happened vnto me since I wrote a letter vnto you the last yeere from the Kings Court some litle part of my resolution for the disposing of a part of my time of abode in Asia Therefore now I will draw to a conclusion the time I cannot limit when I shall come home but as my mercifull God and Sauiour shall dispose of it A long rabble of commēdations like to that which I wrote in my last letter to you I hold not so requisite to make at this present Therefore with remembrance of some fewe friends names I will shut vp my present Epistle I pray you recommend me first in Odcombe to Master Gollop and euery good body of his family if he liueth yet to Master Berib his wife and all his Family to all the Knights William Chunt Iohn Selly Hugh Donne and their wiues to Master Atkins his wife at Norton I pray commend me in Euill to these to old Mr Seward if he liueth his wife and children the poore Widow Darby old Master Dyer and his Sonne Iohn Master Ewins old and young with their wiues Master Phelpes and his wife Master Starre and his wife with the rest of my good friends there I had almost forgotten your husband to him also to Ned Barber and his wife to William Ienings commend me also I pray you that with respectfull and dutifull termes to the godly and reuerent fraternitie of Preachers that euery second Friday meet at a religious exercise at Euill at the least if that exercise doth continue pray read this letter to them for I thinke they wil be well pleased with it by reason of the nouelties of things And so finally I commit you and all them to the blessed protection of Almighty God From Agra the Capitall of the Dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India the last of October 1616. Your dutifull louing and obedient Sonne now a desolate Pilgrim in the World THOMAS CORIAT ❧ The Copy of a speech that J made to a Mahometan in the Italian tongue THe Coppy of a speech that I made extempore in the Italian tongue to a Mahometan at a Citie called Moltan in the Easterne India two daies iourny beyond the famous Riuer Indus which I haue passed against Mahomet and his accursed Religion vpon the occasiō of a discurtesie offered vnto mee by the said Mahometan in calling me Gtaur that is infidell by reason that I was a Christian the reason why I spake to him in Italian was because he vnderstood it hauing been taken slaue for many yeeres since by certaine Florentines in a Gally wherein hee passed from Constantinople towards Alexandra but being by them interrupted by the way he was carried to a Citie called Ligorne in the Duke of Florences Dominions where after two yeeres he had learned good Italian but he was an Indian borne and brought vp in the Mahometan Religion I pronounced the speech before an hundred people whereof none vnderstood it but himselfe but hee afterward told the meaning of some part of it as far as he could remember it to some of the others also If I had spoken thus much in Turky or Persia against Mahomet they would haue rosted me vpon a spitt but in the Mogols Dominions a Christian may speake much more freely then hee can in any other Mahometan Country in the world The speech was this as I afterward translated it into English But I pray thee tell me thou Mahometan dost thou in sadnes call me Giaur that I doe quoth he then quoth I in very sobersadnes I retort that shamefull word in thy throate and tell thee plainly that I am a Musulman and thou art a Giaur For by that Arab word Musulman thou dost vnderstand that which cannot be properly applied to a Mahometan but onely to a Christian so that I doe consequently inferre that there are two kindes of Muselmen the one an