House he had free Access Here he viewed several parts of Greece and in the Hellespont and of those two Castles directly opposite to each other called Sestos and Abidos on the Banks of that narrow Sea famous for the Story of Hero and Leander He much desired to see those seven Churches of Asia which lye now in ruins only Smyrna is still famous for Trade but not Religion and Ephesus with some others retain their names though they have lost the profession of their Faith with the rest He saw the Ruins of Great Troy once so populous as if sown with people but now with standing Corn the very ruins being almost gone to ruine there only remaining part of an exceeding great House supposed part of the Famous Palace of Great King Priam From Smyrna he went to Gran Cairo in Egypt anciently called Memphis and observed the remains of the once famed Pyramids Returning thence to Alexandria with another Englishman they passed by Sea to Ioppa and met some going to Ierusalem with whom joining they travelled through a Solitary Rocky way full of danger from the Wild Arabs who Rob Travellers Arriving at Ierusalem they saw and heard all wherewith Pilgrims are usually treated of which you have a full Account in a small Book called Two Iourneys to Ierusalem c. Here our Traveller had the Arms of Ierusalem made upon his left Arm and on his Right a single Cross like that whereon our Saviour suffered on the sides of which were written Via Veritas Vita The way Truth and Life and on the foot three Nails like those which fastened our Saviour to it done so artificially and indelibly by a Black Powder as if drawn by some accurate Pencil upon Parchment The poor man would much glory in beholding these Characters applying the words of St. Paul to himself I bear in my Body the Marks of the Lord Iesus Gal. 6. 17. Hence they went to the Dead Sea the River Iordan Sidon Alexandretta Scanderoon and Aleppo where he was kindly received by the English Consul staying some time there for the Caravan which consists of a mixt multitude from divers parts who travel together to prevent Theives and Murderers With these setting forward they came to the City of Nineveh in Assâ—…ria which in Ionahs time was three days Journey but now so mean and obscure that Passengers cannot say this is Nineveh having lost its name and called now Mozel From thence they journeyed to Babylon in Chaldea upon the River Euphrates once for its magnitude called a Countrey now much contracted and named Bagdat From hence they pro ceeded through both the Armenias where our Traveller saw Mount Ararat whereon the Ark rested after Noahs Flood They went thence to Ispahan in Persia and after that to Sushan where King Ahasuerus kept his Court in Esthers time from thence to Candahor the first Province North-East under the Great Mogol and so to Lahore the second City of this Empire a place of great Trade Wealth and Delight more temperate than any other of his great Cities At length he arrived at Agra the Mogols Metropolis from Lahore to Agra is 400 English Miles the Countrey rich even and pleasant and the Road on both sides planted with great Trees clothed all the year with Leaves of exceeding benefit to Travellers in that hot Clime It is called The Long Walk full of Villages and Towns convenient for supply of Travellers At Agra our Traveller was kindly entertained by the English Factory and there learned the Turkish Arabian Persian and Indostan Tongues which was very advantagious to him in his Travels through the Mogols Territories he wearing the habit and speakking the Language of that Nation He made an Oration to the Great Mogol in the Persian Tongue ' bringing in the Story of the Queen of Sheba 1 King 10. In which parts of the Sacred Scripture the Mahometans have some knowledge and told the King That as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the Fame of King Solomon came from far to visit him and confessed that she had not been told half of what she now saw concerning the Wisdom Greatness Retinue and Riches of Solomon so said our Orator I had heard much of your Majesty before I had the honour of your sight when I was very â—…far off in my own Countrey but what I now behold exceedingly surmounts all the reports thereof Intermixing other slatteries therewith which pleased the Mogol who gave him an hundred Roâ—…pies being about twelve pound tâ—…n Shillings in our money looking on him as a Dervise Prophet or Pilgrim as he called him who in that Countrey value not money which might be the reason he did not reward him more liberally He after got the Vulgar Language and a Woman belonging to the English Ambassador there having such freedom of Speech that she would rail from Morning to Night Coryat one day undertook her in her own Dialect and by eight a Clock in the Morning so silenced her that she had not one word more to speak At the four Corners of their Mosquets or Churches in this Countrey there are high round small Turrets into the top of these their reists ascend five times every day whence they proclaim aloud these Arabian words La alla illa alla Mahomet Resul-alla that is There is no God but one God and Mahomet the Messenger from God This is instead of Bells which they use not in their Churches One time Tom. Coryat hearing Priest a thus crying got upon a high place directly opposite to him 〈◊〉 thus contradicted him La alla illa alla â—…asaret Eesa Benalla that is No God but one God and the Lord Christ the Son of God and say'd that Mahomet was an Impostor All this he uttered in their own Language as loud as possible in the Ears of many Mahometans present but it may be questioned whether the discretion of our Pilgrim were to be commended for if this had been acted in many other places of Asia it would have cost him his Life with as much torture as cruelty could have invented But being here taken for a madman he was let alone haply since every one there has liberty to profess his own Religion freely and may argue against theirs without danger as Tom Coryat did another time with a Moola The question was which of them was the Musselman or true Believer After much heat on both sides Coryat made this Learned distinction That himself was the Orthodox Musselman or True Believer and the Priest the Pseudo Musselman or False True Believer He was a man of a coveting Eye never satisfied with seeing as Solomon speaks and took as much pleasure therein as others in injoying great and rare things He had the mastery of many hard Languages besides Greek and Latin which he brought from England and had he had Wisdom to manage them as he had skill to speak them he had deserved more Fame in his Generation but his Attainments made him ignorant ef
a heap of Ashes there provided sticks the Branch of a Tree and drinking water out of a Bason spouts it upon the Branch and then daubeth his Face with the Ashes after which the Devil out of the Tree gives answer to the Kings questions The Nobility likewise adore certain Trees esteeming them Oracles and they report the Devil sometimes appears to them like a black Dog and otherwhile answers them without any visible apparition Some worship a Bird called Pittoie spotted and painted as it were with Stars and resembleth the voice of a Bull To hear this Bird low in their Journey is reckoned a good Omen they saying their Fetisso promises them good Fortune and so they set a Vessel of Water and Wheat in the place where they hear it And as the Earth and Air yield them Deities so the Sea yields certain Fishes whom they Canonize upon this account they never take the Tunny Fish the Swordfish they eat but dry the Sword on his back which is held in great Veneration Yea the Mountains are not without honour and if they did not pacifie their Anger by setting daily Presents of Meat and Drink thereon they believe they would bend their sullen Brows and as their High Tops threaten to scale Heaven would overwhelm the Earth and destroy them all Neither has Nature alone this priviledge but Art likewise is concerned in making Gods composed sometimes of filthy things as of a piece of putrified Earth anointed with Suet Grease and Oil of Palms with five or six Parrot Feathers upright in the middle to which morning and night they pay their Devotions when it Thunders Rains hard or the wind blows strong there is not one to be seen in the Streets all hide themselves in their Houses and cry The Gods of the Whites are angry The Devil is so dreadful to them they tremble at naming him and say he beats them and makes them do evil things for their Fetisso which every one carries about him some are only the ends of Horns filled with Dung others as the heads of some Creature and the like which their Priests sell them at their own price and pretend they found them under the Fetiche Tree When any one Dies they make a new Fetisso or Ring of Straw and conjure it to keep company and protect the dead in their Journey to the other World They lay the Corps on a Matt upon the ground wrapt in Woollen with a Stool covered with a Goat-skin under the head the body is then strowed with Ashes the Arms laid by its side and the Eyes open'd this continues half a day the best beloved Wife sitting by the Husband as the Husband doth by his first Wife crying Aury and wiping her Face with a wisp of Straw Other Women go round the House and Corps singing and beating on Basons The Eldest Morini or Gentleman goes from House to House with a Bason into which every one puts the value of Twelve Pence in Gold with this they buy a Cow with whole Blood the Fittessero or Priest appeaseth the Fetisso The Friends and Kindred assembling prepare a Hen and then seating themselves in a corner of the dead mans House they place all his Fetisso's or Gods on a row the greatest in the midst adorning them with Garlands of Pease and Beans and then sprinkle them with the Blood of the Hen and hang a Chain or Garland of Herbs about their Necks after this the Hen being boyl'd the VVomen set it in the midst of his Fetisso's and the Priest taking water into his Mouth amidst his Charms spits it out on the Fetisso's and plucking the Herbs from his Neck he makes a Ball of them wherewith he besmears his Face which Ball hereby is made a Fetisso and the Party deceased is now at rest In the mean time the dearest of his VVives fills all the House with Mourning the Neighbours and Friends assisting with Songs and Dances At length they take up the Corps and carry it to the Grave which is about four foot deep and covered with Stakes that nothing may fall therein The VVomen come about the Sepulchre and expostulate thus with him in a pitiful and lamenting voice Alas why didst thou dye Thou hadst so much VVheat so much Maiz thou wast beloved of thy Family and they had great care of thy Person why wouldst thou dye what have we deserved wherein have we offended thee what discontent have we ever given thee to oblige thee to leave us If he be a man they add Thou wert so valiant so generous thou hast overthrown so many Enemies thou hast behaved thy self gallently in so many Fights who shall now defend us from our Adversaries Wherefore then wouldst thou dye Others cry He is dead that brave Huntsman that excellent Fisherman that valiant Warriour that great destroyer of Portugals that generous Defender of our Countrey he is departed this VVorld Then they throw on a little Earth but none can get into the Corps for he hath with him his Houshold Stuff Armour and whatsoever he used in his life time and VVine too if he loved it to drink in the other VVorld Lastly they cover the Sepulchre with a Roof to defend all from Rain If the King dyes greater Solemnity is used yea his Nobles thinking so great a Personage ought to have Attendants one offers to him a Servant another a VVife a third his Son or Daughter even many of both Sexes to wait upon him all whom are suddenly slain and their Bloody Carcasses buried with him yea the Kings VVives who loved him best refuse not this last and everlasting Service but are willing to dye that they may again live with him The Heads of the Slain are set upon Poles round about the Sepulchre Meat Drink Cloths Arms and other Utensils are buried with them After the Funeral they go to the Sea and there use other Ceremonies some washing while others play on Basons and Instruments where the VViddow or VViddower is laid backward on the water with divers words of complaint at last they return back to the dead Mans House where they drink themselves drunk and wash away all further sorrow IV. Dickeys Cove THis Fort hath Ten Guns very good Saker and Minion It lies on the Southern Part of Guinea and hath four Palankers strongly built of Lime and Stone VVith a Garrison of Thirty white men besides Blacks and Mulattoes There is a Place called Cape Miserado by the Portugals either because it is incompassed with Rocks that lye under water and would inevitably destroy any Vessel which should come nearer than half a League or because the French who were formerly Massacred here cryed out Misericorde Misericorde Mercy Mercy Besides the Natives of this place being very cruel they have denominated the River and called it Duro as being hard and fatal to the Europeans The Government of this Countrey is absolute and unlimited Monarchy so that the King is the only and sole Judge in all Causes and though he
sick he should not have his Head cut off In the Boat which they took there was one Musket saved that was not discharged which his Master some time after brought to him to know the use of Watts endeavoured to keep him in ignorance but being threatned at length was forced to shoot it off but the Negro's who expected some delightful thing were frustrated and at the sudden noise and flash of Fire which they much dread ran from him affrighted but hearing no more noise came up again and commanded him to do the like he told them he had no Powder which caused the noise but this would not satisfie these Barbarians who were about to murder him for refusal haâ—…â—…ot his Master prevented it After in discourse his Master told him that the People were naturally civil and simply honest but it provoked full of Revenge and that this cruelty toward him and his Friends was occasioned by the unhandsome carrying away some Native without their leave about a year before they resolving if any came 〈◊〉 they should never go off alive He had not been above seven Weeks in the Countrey but his Master presented him to the King whose name was Efme King of the Buckamores who immediately gave him to his Daughter Onijah When the King went abroad he atâ—…ended him as his Page throughout the whole Circuit of his Dominions which was not above twelve miles yet boasting exceedingly of his Power and Strength and glorying extreamly that he had a White to attend him whom he imployed to carry his Bow and Arrows At several places remote from the Seaside some of the People would run away from him for fear others fell down and seem'd to worship him using those Actions they do to their Gods Their Progress was never so long but they could return home at Night yet never without a full Dose of the Creature During all the time Watts was a Slave he never knew him go abroad and come home sober They drink the best Palm-wine and another Liquor called Penrore The Englishman knew how to humour this profound Prince and if any of the Natives abused him upon his complaint he had Redress as once by striving with a Negro his Arm was broke which by providence more than skill was set again After some Months the King of Calanach called Mancha hearing of this beautiful White courted his Neighbour Prince to sell him and at length he was sold for a Cow and a Goat This King was sober free from the Treacheries and Mischiefs the other was subject to and would oft inquire of him concerning his King and Countrey and whether his Kingdoms were bigger than his own whose whole Dominions were not above twenty five miles in length and fifteen in breadth The Englishman told as much as he thought convenient keeping within the bounds of modesty yet relating as much as possible to the honour and dignity of his Soveraign first informing him of the greatness of one of his Kingdoms the several Shires and Counties it contained with the number of its Cities Towns and Castles and the strength of each the infinite Inhabitants and valour of his Subjects One of these sufficiently amazed this petty Governour that he need mention no more of His Majesties Glory and Dignity It put him into such a profound Consternation that he resolved to find out some way to tender his respects to this Mighty Prince and could study none more convenient than that if he could find a passage he would let him go to England to inform King Charles the II. of the great favour and respect he had for him This did not a little rejoice our Englishman He also told him that he would send him a Present which should be two Cabareets or Goats which they there value at a high rate this King having himself not above seventeen or eighteen He tells the King that the King of England had many thousand Subjects under the degree of Gentlemen who had a thousand Sheep apieâ—…e the Flesh of which they valued at a much higher rate than Goats Though our Captive lived happily with this King yet his desires and hopes were still to return to his Native Countrey at length he promised him that the first English Ship which came into the Road should have liberty to release or purchase him This much rejoiced his Heart now he thought every day a year till he could hear of or see some English Ship arrived Oft did he walk down to the Sea-side earnestly expecting the winds of Providence would blow some in thither which being observed by one Iaga the chiefest Wizard in those parts and much admired by the People though they have a multitude of others this man came to him one day and inquired why he went so often to the Sea shore he told him to see if he could discover any English Vessel come in there and knowing he was a Wizard though not acquainted with his great Fame nor willing to credit his Divinations yet to please him askt when he did believe there would one come in Iaga instantly told him That the fifteenth day after an English Ship would câ—…me into the Road. He then demanded whether that Ship should carry him away he answered doubtfully but said he should be offered to the Master of the Ship and if they did not agree but he should come ashore again and not be sold he would soon dye of grief These fifteen days seemed very long many a look did he cast on the Sea with an aking Heart the fourteenth day he went to an high hill but he could discover nothing next Morning he went again two or three times but saw none about two or three hours after some of the Moors came running to the King telling him there was a Canoe coming so they call our Ships at which our Englishman rejoiced hoping to be releast yet durst not shew it for fear of punishment or death for though he lived better now than with his first Master yet his Service was far worse than the Slaves in Turkey and their Diet worse than Dogs meat The Ship came in and he runs to Iaga to know if it were an English Ship who assured him it was and so it happened one Captain Royden being Commander who hastned to dispatch his business took in his Negro's and was ready to Sail our Captive not hearing a word what should become of him the King never offering to sell him This made him resolve to endeavour an escape he had prepared a piece of Timber and drawn it toward the water-side on which he intended to paddle to the Ship which lay about a League off Just by the Sea-side as he was about to lanch his floating stick he espied a great Alligator which will devour a man at a mouthful this altered his mind resolving rather to live with Infidels than be accessary to his own death But next day it pleased God to move the Kings Heart to let him go sending him in a Canoe
tracks of 〈◊〉 â—…ne Rivers as they ran over this Quarter of the Island which hath so wasted the ground â—…ond recovery that nothing can be made to grow there but Broom A View of the Bay of Souldania near the Cape of Good Hope on the Coast of Africa where the Ships of the Honourable East-India-Company used formerly to refresh in their Indian Voyages With an Account of the Natives Birds and Beasts of that Countrey now called Cafaria and Monomopata or the Countrey of the Hottentots With some Accidents happening there BEfore we arrive at the East-Indies I cannot but divert once more to the Bay of Souldania lying in thirty four degrees and an half of South Latitude about twelve Leagues short of the Cape of Good Hope in a sweet Climate full of fragrant Herbs which the Soil produceth of it self pleasing to the sense Where the Honourable East-India Companies ships used formerly to refresh and arriving there very weak and feeble with that Sea disease the Scurvey have often found very great relief and it is observable if any be not too much overgone with this malady as soon as they come to enjoy the fresh Air on any shore with fresh Water and fresh Victuals they presently recover but if the Sâ—…urvey has overmuch prevailâ—…d they instantly dye as soon as they set their foot on Shore Here is a most delicious Brook of sweet Water arising out of a mighty Hill hard by called for its form The Table neer which is another Hill exceeding high like a Pyramid and called by Europeans the Sugar-loaf here are great store of Cattel as little Cows called by the barbarous Inhabitants Boos and Sheep which they name Baas who bear a short course hairy Wooll and seem to have been never shorn These Boos and Baas as they term them were formerly bought in great plenty for small quantities of Kettle-brass and Iron Hoops taken off our empty Cask which for this long Voyage to the Indies are hoop't with Iron These Salvages had the Cattel we bought of them at very great Command for with a call they would presently run to them and when they had sold a Bullock to us for a little piece of Brass if we did not presently knock him down they would by the same call make the poor creature break from us and run to them again and then there was no getting them but by giving more Brass thus they sell the same beast two or three times by the covetousness and deceit of this brutish People Of all Metals they love Bâ—…ass best it may be for the rankness of the smell wearing great Rings thereof about their Arms so that if you lay before them a piece of Gold worth 40s and a peice of Brass worth Two pence they will leave the Gold and take the Brass On this shoar are excellent small Roots for Sallads and store of large fat Mullets This remote part of Africa is mountainous and overun with Lyons Tygers Wolves and many other Beasts of Prey which in the night discover themselves by their noise and roaring To the Teeth and Jaws of which cruel creatures the Natives here expose their old people when they grow decrepâ—…t and troublesome laying them forth in some open place in the night when the Wild Beasts and Lyons roar after their Prey One poor Old wretch was thus exposed when some English Ships were there and by his pitiful cries discovered by our Court of Guard ashoar by whom he was delivered from Death And they asking Cooree one of the Natives why they did so he replied It was their Custom when People had lived so long that they knew not what to do with them thus to be rid of them They saw in this Bay of Souldania many Whales party-coloured Fowls and Ostriches The Soil about the Bay seems good but the Sun shines not upon a People more Barbarous than those which possess it being rather Beasts in the Skins of men than Men in the Skins of Beasts for by their Igâ—…rance Habit Language Diet and other things they appear absolutely brutish For generally all People as well Heathen as Christian acknowledge the great God of Heaven and Earth but they as Cooree told us own no God at all Their speech seems rather an inarticulate noise than a Language like the clucking of Hens or Gabling of Turkies sounding like the word Hott-en-tot from whence they are so called As they walk about they make a strange confused noise if there be two three ten twenty or more in company they walk in rank one after another in small paths they have made by going thus as Cows do when they come home to the pail or as Wild Geese flying in Ranks make a noise so these walking together gabble from the first to the last as if all spake and none answered Their Habits are Sheep Skins undrest thonged together which cover their bodies to the middle with a little flap tyed before them being naked downward when it is cold they put the Woolley and when hot the Fleshy side next their Body Their Ornaments are Bullocks or Sheeps guts full of Excrements about their Necks and when we bought their Cattel they would take their Skins Guts and Garbage which plentifully furnish't them with that stinking attire When they are hungry they sit down and shaking some of that filthy pudding out of the Guts bow down their Mouths to their hands almost as low as their knees and like hungry Dogs gnaw and eat the Raw Guts The Women are adorned habited and dieted in the same manner only they wear more about their lower parts than the men They carry their sucking Infants under their Skins upon their backs and their Breasts hanging down like â—…agpipes they put them up with their hands that they may suck them over their Shoulders Both Sexes make coverings for their heads of Cow-dung mingled with a little stinking Grease and besmear their Faces therewith which makes their Company insufferable if they get the Wind of you They eat rotten mouldy Biskets fit for nothing but the dunghill yea they will devour what a hungry Dog in England would refuse A couple of them had found on the Shoar a large peice of a dead Fish the Sea had cast up which stunk intolerably they made a little fire with dry Cow-dung warmd and then eat it with as much appetite as an hungry man would feed upon a Savoury Dish which makes one believe they have but three senses wanting both smelling and tasting These Brutes devote themselves to Idleness for they neither spin nor dig They are streight and well limb'd though not very Tall their Faces are ill favoured most of their Noses flat have little or no beard the hair on their heads short black and curled their Skins very tawny swift they are of foâ—…t and wiâ—…l throw Darts and shoot Arrows very dangerously In 1615 an East-India Ship returning thence and arriving at this Harbor when she was ready to Sail having two of these Salvages
Men but Two lost Savagi now Acts as King and secures himself in the mountains where the Mogol is not able to attack him Caambaia is 3 Miles from the River Indus and about 3 Miles in Compass one of the neatest and best Built Citys in all the East and called the Indian Grand Cairo for its Greatness Traffick and Fertility of soil and so populous as to contain an hundred and thirty thousand Families Here they cut the Agats that come from other Countreys into several sorts of shapes and in the Suburbs they make Indico Here the East-India Company had a Factory the tydes are so swift that a Horse at full speed cannot keep pace with the Waves but the Sea and the Trade is fallen away from it Swalley is more South and about a Mile from the Sea but gives name to a large Capacious Bay where the Ships ride that Trade to Surat from which it is about ten Mile distant Maslipatan MAslipatan or Metchlapatam is a great City the Houses whereof are only Wood Built at a distance from each other It stands by the Sea and the Honourable East-India Company have a Factory here This being the most famous Road for Ships in the Bay of Bengal from whence they Sail to Pegu Siam Ormus Sumatra and other Places of Traffick This City is in Golkonda but the Great Mogol is so much dreaded there that his Commissioner is Master thereof buying selling bringing in and sending abroad his Merchants Ships none daring to contradict him in any thing nor to demand any Customs of him Paâ—…ania is a City South from Siam and was governed many years by a Queen In 1612. Some English Men came hither with a Letter from Q. Elizabeth and a Present from the Merchants of 600 Rials of Eight The Letter was carried in great state being lay'd in a Bason of Gold lay'd on an Elephant adorned with little Flaggs Lances and Minstrils They then obtained a Grant to Trade there upon the same conditions as the Hollanders and there was an English Factory which is now removed Siam is a Kingdom The chiefest part lying between the Gulf of Siam and Bengale the Countrey is plentiful in Rice and Fruits The Forrests stored with Deer Elephants Tyâ—…ers Rhinocero's and Apes Here grew store of large Bamboo Canes under the knots of them are Ants or Emmets Nests as big as a Mans head where they preserve themselves during the Rains which continue 4 or 5 Months The King of Siam was accounted a very Rich Prince and stiled himself King of Heaven and Earth though he be tributary to the Kings of China There were Idols in his Temples Seaven foot high all of massy Gold When the King appeared all the Doors and Windows of the Houses must be shut All the People prostrating themselves on the ground not daring to look up And because no Person was to be in an higher Place then the King they within doors were bound to keep their lowest Rooms He would suffer no Barbar to come near him one of his Wives cutting his hair for him One part of his magnificence consists in his Train of 200 Elephants among which one was White which he valued so highly as to stile himself King of the white Elephant He passionately admires them accounting them his Favourites and the Ornaments of his Kingdom If an Elephant dyed he was burned with the same Funeral Pomp as a Nobleman The English had a Factory formerly in this Kingdom as well as at Armagon As for Ballasore Hugli Chuttanetti Daca Rajamell the present Honourable East India Company have Factorys in all those Places of which little more can be say'd then what has been spoken of others At the famous Port of Bombay Island the English have Built a strong â—…ort and here they Coin both Silver Copper and Tin which passes among themselves and the Villages along the Coast. The Empire and Government of the Great Mogol HAving given some account of the Forts and Factrys of the Honourable East India Company I shall subjoine a breif Relation of the Empire and Government of that Mighty Monarch The name of India is now given to the Empire of the Great Mogol and to the two Peninsula's one on this side and the other beyond Ganges with the Islands scattered in the Indian Sea which are all comprehended under the general Name of the East-Indies yea some Authors take in all the Oriental Part of Asia It is recorded that the Old Inhabitants consisted in 122 several Nations originally descended from the Sons of Noah before their Journey to the Valley of Shinaar and their attempt in Building the Tower of Babel That it was first invaded by the famous Queen Seinramis with an Army of above four Millions whom Staurobates an Indian King opposed with equal forces who overcame and slew her That the next Invasion was by Bacchus the Son of Iupiter and Hercules who by policy and force subdued them and taught them the use of Wine Oyl and the Art of Architecture After this India was invaded by Alexander the Great He vanquishing first Clophae Queen of Magaza and then King Porus both whom he took Prisoners But restoring them again their Liberty and Kingdom returned back to Babylon where he dyed of poyson After this they lived in peace under several Kings In 1587. their Countrey being discovered by the Portugals and after by the Dutch and English they have had much Traffick with them This vast Empire comprehends the greatest part of the Continent of Asia wherein are contained 37 Kingdoms As for Remains of Antiquity there are few or none the Mogols having ruined all the Ancient Buildings which according to the Ancients were 30 large Citys and 3â—…00 Walled Towns and Castles so strong as to be thought impregnable which may not be improbable if Noah first planted there after his descent from Mount Ararat not far distant from hence Since such mighty Armys were raised in those Countreys not many Years after and the Land so well Built and planted so that when Alexander had overthrown King Porus near the River Hydaspis he say'd He found greater Citys and more sumptuous Buildings in India then in all the World besides Some of the Citys that end in Pore as Meliapore Visiapore and others seem to retain the Memory of K. Porus as others in Scander the Name of Alexander The Dominions of the Great Mogol are larger then the Persians and equal to the Grand Seigniors His strength lyes in the Number of his Subjects the Vastnes of his wealth and the extent of his Empire his Revenue exceeding the Persian and the Turks both put together But the K. of Persia exceeds him in Horse Arms and warlike People His Revenue is reckoned to be about Seaven Millions and an half English money The Throne alone wherein he gives Audience is valued at near Four Millions being almost covered with Jewels Pearls and all kind of precious stones of a vast Value The present Mogol derives his Original from