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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

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