every where they have no Stalk but embrace the Stem Towards the head of the stem about the uppermost but one of the sets of Leaves See the following Cut. or somewhat higher out of the main stem betwixt the two Leaves a stem sprouts out as big as the shank of a Tulip and long as ones Finger from the end whereof other small stalks spring forth about fifteen in number each of which bears a Flower on the top all these Flowers together making a kind of Posie before they blow they are about the bigness of a Brass Farthing and are like a flat Button or of the same bigness and figure as some little white round Bones flat above which are to be found in the Thornback-Fish they are round below that is to say the Leaves of which it is made up joyn and make the upper side flat when they are open they look like very small Emonies These Flowers on the outside are of a dull sullied White The Flowers of Kerzehreh inclining to a Violet-colour and very sleeked in the inside the bottom is White and the point of each Leaf Purple at the bottom there is a small Pentagone Figure all Yellow whereof each Angle answers to the middle of one of the Leaves of the Flower and out of the middle of each side of that Pentagone grows as it were a Tooth White below and of a Purple colour at the top and each Tooth answers to the interstice betwixt every two Leaves the Flower may be like the Flower of a Bramble This Plant is full of a very tart Milk which immediately dries betwixt the Fingers and turns to little threads It is commonly said in Persia but I never saw the experiment of it that if a man breath in the hot Wind which in June or July passes over that Plant The bad effects of Kerzehreh Badisamour Poyson-wind A Remedy against the Badisamour it will kill him so that if one take hold of him by an Arm or a Leg and pull it it will come off like boyled Flesh and they call that Wind Badisamour which in Persian Language signifies a Poyson-Wind They add that the way to prevent it is when one feels a hot Wind and likewise hears the noise of it for it makes a whistling noise quickly to wet a Cloak or some such thing and wrap it about the Head that the wind may not pierce it and besides to lie on the ground flat on ones Face till it be over which is not above a quarter of an hour They say that that Plant is very Venemous and that therefore they call it Kerzehreh and an Armenian one day would have had me believe that if a drop of the Milk of Kerzehreh touched a mans Eye he would lose it for good and all but I was not willing to try the experiment The Connar The Cherzehre The Armenians call that Plant Badisamour but one of them very rationally told me that they had no reason to give it the name of that Pestiferous Wind and far less to attribute to it the cause of the bad effects thereof seeing the same Plant is found in many places where the Badisamour Wind rages not as at Lar and beyond it and that Wind rages only from Conveston to Bender Nay many people of Schiras told me that the Plant is to be found two Leagues from that Town where that Wind rages not and I have seen it in many places upon the Road from Carzerum to Benderick This is a good reason to prove that that Plant causes not the aforesaid Wind but it does not sufficiently prove that with that Wind it does not cause these bad effects for it may very well be said that if that hot Wind reigned in places where there were no such Plant it would not perhaps be so mortal because it may be that being already very bad of it self the malignity of it is encreased by passing over these Plants whose smell and noxious qualities it carries along with it but what in my opinion may serve to convince us of the contrary betwixt Mosul and Bagdad there being no such Plants at least I never saw nor heard there were any the Wind which in those quarters is called the Samiel is as pestiferous and mortal there as in the places where that Plant is to be found it is therefore impertinent to attibute to it the bad effects of that Wind and the rather that that Plant grows all over the Indies where it is not known what the Wind Samiel is Besides what the Armenian told me that that Plant is called Kerzehreh that is to say Asses-Gall for the reason alleadged before I found in a Dictionary Turkish and Persian that Kerzehreh signifies besides a Tree of Poyson and that man assured me that it was Poysonous if but smelt too But he gave an Original to the Wind Badisamour that had no soliditie at all for he said that it blew from the Sea A bad cause of the Badisamour and that upon that Coast the Sea often casts a shoar a kind of a Fish whereof he could not tell the name and that that Fish being out of the Sea dies and corrupts so that the Wind passing over it brings along with it that stench which renders it pestiferous A Portuguese Gentleman who lived for several years at Bender Congo near which are many Kerzehreh Trees told me this particular of it Some particularities of the Kerzehreh that that part of its Root which looks to the East is Poyson and that that which looks to the South is the Antidote and that of the Wood of that Plant they make good Coals for Gun-powder We found besides in many places Konar a Tree and chiefly all a long the Road from Dgiaroun to Benderabassi a Tree which they call Konar the Trunk of it is so big that it will require two men to grasp it round two or three Foot high it looks just like a Rock or like many Roots twisted together and is very knotty and whitish as to the rest both in shape and height it much resembles a Pear-Tree the Branches of it spread far and make a great shade the Bark of them is white as well as the inside which hath a Pith in the Heart like an Elder-Tree at all the knots where little Branches or Leaves sprout out there are two large long prickles which are strong and red bending a little down towards the ground and are not directly opposite to one another The Leaves are of the length and breadth that are marked in the following Figure They are of a varnished green colour on the one side and on the other of a pale and whitish green and have Veins like Plantain Leaves This Tree bears a Fruit which is ripe in March and in shape much resembles a little Apple of the same colour but no bigger than a Service or small Cherry There is little of it to be Eaten for the stone is much bigger than that
there are a great many Fountains with lovely Basons of one entire piece of Marble brought from Genoa and as in the House of Don Philippo an open Hall with a great reservatory in the middle and walks all round it roofed over and supported by several Pillars this as also all the Rooms are paved with black and white Marble adorned with Gold and Azure and that kind of Clay or Plaister-work There are several fair appartments in all these Houses which have lovely Gardens full of Orange and several other Fruit-Trees planted in as good order as in Christendom with many neat Beds and borders of Flowers at the ends of Walks all made by Christian slaves These Houses are called Bardes from the Moresco word Berd that signifies Cold because there is a fresh Air about them Near that place there is an Aqueduct built by a Dey which brings Water four or five miles off to Tunis A few steps from that there is another Aqueduct somewhat older yet still modern which is parallel to the former and carries Water also to Tunis Another day I went to see the Cantre which belongs to Schelebi whom I mentioned Cantre the Son of Hisouf Dey and is four leagues from Tunis As you go thither you pass by the old Aqueducts of Carthage which are about half way they are at that place very entire still raised high and built of very great stones From Tunis to the Cantre most of the way is over large Fields planted with Olive-Trees some steps distant from one another but in so streight a line that they look like Walks which would be very pleasant were it not that these ways are always full of Rain-water and mire as all the Countrey about Tunis is because it lyes upon a level We came then to the Cantre so called from a Bridge which Hisouf Dey the Father of Schelebi built over a River called Magerda Magerda for Cantre in Moresco signifies Bridge This River Magerda is neither very broad nor rapid but enough to deserve the name of a fair River it runs near to the House of Schelebi and his Father built a stone Bridge to cross over it the spaces betwixt the Pillars of the seven Arches being built up from the bottom to the surface of the Water with huge pieces of Free-stone so that the water passing through the Arches and finding it lower on the other side makes at every arch a very pleasant Cascade two foot high where the Water falls with a great noise Upon that River there are several Iron-Mills as also for grinding Corn and fulling the Caps called Fez-Caps which are made at Zagouaro by Tagarins All that work in these Mills are the slaves of Schelebi At the end of the Bridge is the House of Schelebi built in form of a Castle it hath one very large Court and other smaller ones the Rooms as in other Houses are beautified with Gold Azure and Plaistering with Fountains every where and all paved with Marble so that they are more magnificent than those I had seen before There are lovely Pictures in those Rooms for formerly this Schelebi was very rich his Father having left him a vast Estate and among other things eighteen hundred Slaves but he hath run out a great deal in his Debaucheries he is a man of a generous Heart and if he were once in Christendom he would never leave it again He keeps open table for all Franks that come to see his House and is so courteous that he never refuses any thing and if he have not what is asked from him he uses means to procure it at any rate that he may freely give it When I went to his House he was not there for he was then at Tabarque a little Island in the Kingdom of Tunis within a Musquet shot of the main Land but three days Journey from Tunis That Island belongs to the Genoese who have a very good Fort and drive a great trade there and among other things in Horses which are called Barbes The Schelebi was gone thither to buy Timber for building of a Galley About three Leagues from the Cantre there is a place called Tabourbe where there are some ancient ruines and chiefly an ancient Temple but I went not to see it because then I must have lain there or at the Cantre and I had not time to spare for our Captain put us in hopes daily that he would sail next day That was the reason also that I went not to Suze neither which is a long days journey from Tunis it is the place where there are more Antiquities than any where else in the Kingdom of Tunis and I believe that thereabouts there are ruines of Churches and other things relating to St Augustin to be seen CHAP. LXXXXI Of Tunis and of the Slaves that are there TVNIS the Capital City of the Kingdom of the same name lyes in a Plain it is pretty big and the Houses are indifferently well built though they make no shew but they are all Marble Gold and Azure within The Suburbs of this City are as big as the City itself which is all paved but dirty as heretofore Paris was so that after rain there is hardly any going in the Streets There is a Castle upon an Eminence within the Town which commands it and it makes a very pretty shew There are some Guns before the Gate and the front of it looks well which is all that I could see of it nor indeed durst I eye it attentively for I had warning given me that it was dangerous for Christians to be curious in viewing that Castle I past by it then but very fast and hard by over against it there is a Burying-place Not far frem the Castle there is Bazar for Drapers it is a long broad street with shops on both sides all which have the fore part supported by four Pillars two on each side none but Drapers keep shop there but there are several other Bazars also for other Commodities Baths for Slaves at Tunis There are thirteen Baths in Tunis where all the Slaveslodge except those that are kept in their Masters Houses and as several Slaves told me there may be there in all ten or twelve thousand Christian Slaves who carry every one a great ring of Iron at their foot Knights of Malta at Tunis but the Knights of Malta have besides that a huge Iron-Chain above five and twenty pound weight which is fastened to the Ring that Chain is very troublesome to them for they must either turn it quite round their Leg and make it fast there which is very heavy when they walk or hang it by a hook that they have by their side which commonly gives them a pain in the side or else must carry it on their Shoulders In these Baths there is a great Hall where they are shut up in the Night-time there they lodge as well as they can some having little Rooms made of wood to which they
at Ispahan but fairer and better and which keep better there by reason of the dryness of the Country-Air which makes Fruit keep a whole Year The Melons are far better there than with us as likewise the Peaches which are very big and the Grapes that are of Nine or Ten sorts Their Wines are White Wines of Ispahan and made of Grapes which they call Kismisch most men believe that that kind of Grape hath no Stones because they are so small as not to be discerned in Eating but they are easily enough to be seen in the Fat when the Wine worketh They make Wine also of other sorts of Grapes which is neither so good nor keeps so well They have some Red Wine but little and to make it they only put some Black Grapes into White Wine to give it a colour if it were made of Black Grapes it would not keep we must except the Wine of Schiras which is Red very good and Stomachical Schiras Wine but it is only brought in Bottles and one must have Friends for that too if nevertheless an Armenian hath got any of it he sells it at eight Abassis and at the least at six They keep the Wine commonly in very great Earthen-Jars for the draught would make all Casks leakey and these Jars hold above a third part of a Tun. No use made of Casks Though the Persians as I have now said have all the kinds of Fruit that we have yet they have not the several sorts of them They have for example several sorts of very good Grapes but they have not the Muscadine Grape The Persians have no Muscadine Grapes Grapes upon the Vine till Christmass No Strawberries in Persia They leave the Grapes on the Vines sometimes till Christmas putting each bunch into a Bag to keep them from the Birds and only gather them as they have occasion to Eat them They have also good Apricots small sharp Cherries Apples and many sorts of Pears but they have no Straw-berries They Eat Melons almost all the year round not only because they take much pains in Cultivating of them but also by reason of the Nature of the Air that I have spoke of which nevertheless excuses not those who would preserve their Melons well from having always a Candle burning in the Room where they lay them whether it be to keep them from the damp or from being Frozen In this manner they Cultivate them in the first place they make use of a great deal of Pigeons Dung The raising of Melons keeping Pigeons only for that purpose which they put into the Ground where they Sow the Melons and that Dung is sold by weight When the Melons are above Ground and begin to be shaped into a Stalk that will carry sometimes twenty they take off three or four and leave those which thrive best ten or twelve days after they again take off those that thrive worst which although they are so little sell very well about Town for there are those who Eat them and in this manner they always ease the Stem leaving only those which thrive best till at length there remain no more but one It is to be observed that every time they open a little with their Nails the Earth that is about the Root they fill it up with Pigeons Dung to give it new nourishment then they put water to it by means of some little Channels that have many turnings which water the Roots without weting the Fruit. They use all these ways with them three or four times for having watered them they let them alone eight or ten days without giving them any more water at length when the remaining Melon begins to grow big they put the end of it to their mouth and having wet it a little with their Spittle cover it with a parcel of Earth and they say that this Ceremony preserves them from the bitings of some Flies that else would spoil them In Persia they Eat Melons till the month of April nay some also in May which is about the time they begin to Eat new ones at least in July they begin to have them Ripe but they are small round Melons most of them white within soft like Cotton and of no relish those that are good are not fit to be Eaten before August they are of another kind and most part long I have described them before The Cultivating of the Palm-Tree Amongst the Trees of Persia is the Palm-Tree which they carefully Cultivate when it is Young and before it bear Fruit they dig at the Root of it eight or ten Fathom deep in the Earth more or less until they have found water but that Pit is not made all round the Tree for that would make it fall they only dig on one side and then fill up that hole with Pigeons Dung whereof they have always provision in that Country because in the Villages they purposely keep a great many tame Pigeons and I was told by the people of the Country that if they took not that course with the Palm-Trees they would not bear good Fruit but there is a very curious thing besides to be observed in the Cultivating of this Tree and that is that every year when the Palm-Trees are in Blossome they take the Blossomes of the Male Palm-Tree and put two or three Branches of them into the Matrix of each Female Palm-Tree when they begin to Blow else they would produce Dates with no more but Skin and Stone I call the Matrix that Bud which contains the Flowers from which in process of time the Dates spring the time of making that inoculation is about the end of November Not but the Males also bear Fruit but it is good for nothing and therefore they take all their Blossoms to Graft the Females with As to Dates it is worth the takeing notice of that the use of them is very dangerous during the Heats in hot Countries because they make the whole Body to break out in Botches and Boils and spoil the sight There is a Shrub called in Persian Kerzehreh that is to say Asses Gall because as they say it is as bitter as the Gall of an Ass Kerzehreh a shrub This Shrub is a Frutex that grows sometimes as high as a tall man the Trunk of it many times is as big as a man from which issue forth stems as big as ones Leg that send forth several Branches the least whereof are as big as ones Finger This Tree looks of a whitish green it hath a pretty thick Bark under which the Stem which is lignous is White The leaves of it are as thick as those of the Laurel Rose-Tree much broader almost as long and in a manner Oval with Veins running along them these Leaves grow by pairs the one opposite to the other but not all of a side for the pair below makes a cross with the pair above in the same manner as Balm does and that regularly
chief Dome is pretty enough and being accompanied with several little ones and two Minarets the whole together looks very pleasant all that pile is supported by forty four Pillars placed two and two and the Pavement is of Marble The Chair of the Imam is there as in other Mosques but besides that in a corner to the Right hand there is a large Jube resting upon two and fourty Pillars eight Foot high apiece which must only have been built to hide the Women that go to the Mosque for that Jube is closed up as high as the Sealing with a kind of Pannels of Plaster with holes through and there I saw above two hundred Faquirs who held their Arms cross ways behind their Head without the least stirring Amedabad being inhabited also by a great number of Heathens there are Pagods Santidas Pagod The Ceremonie of King Auranzeb for converting a Pagod into a Mosque or Idol-Temples in it That which was called the Pagod of Santidas was the chief before Auranzeb converted it into a Mosque When he performed that Ceremonie he caused a Cow to be killed in the place knowing very well that after such an Action the Gentiles according to their Law could worship no more therein All round the Temple there is a Cloyster furnished with lovely Cells beautified with Figures of Marble in relief representing naked Women sitting after the Oriental fashion The inside Roof of the Mosque is pretty enough and the Walls are full of the Figures of Men and Beasts but Auranzeb who hath always made a shew of an affected Devotion which at length raised him to the Throne caused the Noses of all these Figures which added a great deal of Magnificence to that Mosque to be beat off Chaalem a Burying place The Chaalem is still to be seen in Amedabad it is the Sepulchre of a vastly rich Man whom the Indians report to have been a Magician and the Mahometans believe to be a great Saint so that it is daily visited by a great many out of Devotion It is a square pile of Building having on each side seven little Domes which set off a great one in the middle and the entry into that place is by seven Ports which take up the whole front Within this Building there is another in form of a Chappel which is also square when one is within the first which is paved with Marble one may walk round the Chappel that hath two Doors of Marble adorned with Mother of Pearl and little pieces of Chrystal The Windows are shut with Copper Lattices cut into various Figures The Tomb of the Mock-Saint which is in the middle of the Chappel is a kind of a Bed covered with Cloath of Gold the Posts whereof are of the same materials as the Doors of the Chappel are and have the same Ornament of Mother of Pearls and over all there are six or seven Silken Canopy's one over another and all of different colours The place is very much frequented and is continually full of white Flowers brought thither by the Devout Mahometans when they come to say their Prayers A great many Estrige-Eggs and hanging Lamps are always to be seen there also On the other side of the Court there is a like Building where some other Saints of theirs are Interred and not many steps farther a Mosque with a large Porch supported by Pillars with many Chambers and other Lodgings for the Poor and to compleat all there is a spacious Garden at the backside of the Mosque There are many Gardens in Amedabad and are so full of Trees that when one looks upon that Town from a high place it seems to be a Forrest of green Trees most of the Houses being hid by them and the Kings Garden which is without the Town and by the River-side contains all the kinds that grow in the Indies There are long Walks of Trees planted in a streight line which resemble the Cours de la Reine at Paris It is very spacious A spacious Garden or rather it is made up of a great many Gardens raised Amphitheatre-wise and in the uppermost there is a Terrass-Walk from whence one may see Villages at several Leagues distance This Garden being of a very great extent its long Walks yielded a very agreeable Prospect They have in the middle Beds of Flowers which are not above a Fathom and a half in breadth but which reaches from one end of the Garden to the other In the Centre of four Walks which makes a Cross there is a Pavillion covered with green Tiles Thither go all the young People of the Town to take the fresh Air upon the Banks of a Bason full of Water underneath The Sepulchre of a King of Guzerat at Amedabad Going thither we saw a pile of Building where a King of Guzerat lies Interred It is a square Fabrick and in the Opinion of the Indians the Magicians and Sorcerers entertain the Devil there It is covered with a great Dome having five smaller ones on each side and on each front of the Building there are Pillars which support these Domes Some Streets from thence there is to be seen a Sepulchre The Sepulchre of a Cow. where a Cow is interred under a Dome standing upon six Pillars They would have me go next to Serquech Serquech which is a small Town about a League and a half from the City The Indians say that in ancient times that place was the Capital of Guzerat because of the vast number of Tombs of Kings and Princes that are there but it is far more probable that that place was only destin'd for their Burying and that Amedabad hath always been the Capital I observ'd there a Building much of the same structure as that of Chaalem It hath the same Ornaments and is dedicated also to one of their Saints and all the difference is that this has thirteen Domes on each side and the Dome which covers the Chappel is painted and guilt in the inside Opposite to this Fabrick there is another like to it and dedicated also to a Saint Near to these Sepulchres I saw a Mosque like to that which I viewed at Amedabad and the only difference is that it is less It hath adjoyning to it a great Tanquies or Reservatory in the Chappels on the sides whereof are the Tombs of the Kings Queens Princes and Princesses of Guzerat to which they descend by several Steps of very lovely Stones Sepulchres of the Kings and Princes of Guzerat They are all of good solid work whereby it sufficiently appears that they have been made for Kings and Princes but they are framed according to the same Model They consist commonly of a large square Building that hath three great Arches on each Front and over them a great many little ones There is a large Dome in the middle and a great many little ones in the sides and in every corner a Tower with a little pair of Stairs in the thickness
Palace it might reach the highest Appartments Nothing in that Town seems so lovely as the outside of that Building and nevertheless it is surrounded with ugly shops made of Wood and covered with Straw where they sell Fruit which spoiles the prospect of it Gardens near Bagnagar There are many fair Gardens in this Town their beauty consists in having long walks kept very clean and lovely Fruit-trees but they have neither Beds of Flowers nor Water-works and they are satisfied with several Cisterns or Basons with Water The Gardens without the Town are the loveliest and I shall only describe one of them that is reckoned the pleasantest of the Kingdom At first one enters into a great place which is called the first Garden it is planted with Palms and Areca trees so near to one another that the Sun can hardly pierce through them The Walks of it are streight and neat with borders of white Flowers which they call Ghoul Daouds the Flowers of David like camomile-Camomile-Flowers there are also Indian Gilly-flowers with some other sorts The House is at the end of this Garden and has two great Wings adjoyning the main Body of it It is two Story high the first consisting in three Halls of which the greatest is in the middle the main Body of the House and in each Wing there is one all three having Doors and Windows but the great Hall has two Doors higher than the others which open into a large Kioch or Divan supported by eight great Pillars in two rows Crossing the Hall and Divan one goes down a pair of Stairs into another Divan of the same form but longer which as the former hath a Room on each side opened with Doors and Windows The second Story of the Building is like the first save that it hath but one Divan but it hath a Balcony that reaches the whole length of that front of it The House is covered with a flat Roof of so great extent that it reaches over the outmost Divan of the lower Story and is supported by six eight-cornered Wooden Pillars six or seven Fathom high and proportionably big From the lower Divan a Terrass-walk two hundred Paces long and fifty broad faced with Stones runs along all the Front of the House and two little groves of Trees that are on the sides of it This Terrass that is at the head of the second Garden which is much larger than the first is raised a Fathom and a halfe above it and has very neat Stairs for going down into it The first thing that is to be seen looking forwards is a great square Reservatory or Tanquie each side whereof is above two hundred Paces long in it there are a great many Pipes that rise half a Foot above Water and a Bridge upon it raised about a Foot over the surface of the Water and above six Foot broad with wooden Railes This Bridge is fourscore Paces long and leads into a Platform of an Octogone figure in the middle of the Reservatory where there are Steps to descend into the Water which is but about a Foot lower than the Platform There are Pipes in the eight Angles of it and in the Pillars of the Railes from whence the Water plays on all sides which makes a very lovely sight In the middle of the Platform there is a little House built two Stories high and of an Octogone figure also each Story hath a little Room with eight Doors and round the second Story there is a Balcony to walk in The Roof of this Building which is flat is bordered with Balisters and covers the whole Platform also That Roof is supported by sixteen woodden Pillars as big as a Mans Body and about three Fathom high if you comprehend their Capitals and there are two of them at each Angle of which one rests upon the Wall of the House and the other is near the Railes that go round it The Garden wherein this Reservatory is is planted with Flowers and Fruit-trees All are in very good order and in this as well as in the first Garden there are lovely Walks well Gravelled and Bordered with divers Flowers There runs a Canal in the middle of the great Walk which is four Foot over and carries away what it receives from several little Fountains of Water that are also in the middle of that Walk at certain distances In short this Garden is very large and bounded by a Wall which hath a great Gate in the middle that opens into a Close of a large extent Planted with Fruit-trees and as nearly contrived as the Gardens CHAP. V. Of the Inhabitants of Bagnagar THere are many Officers and Men of Law at Bagnagar but the most considerable is the Cotoual He is not only Governour of the Town The Inhabitants of Bagnagar but also chief Customer of the Kingdom He is besides Master of the Mint-house and Supream Judge of the City as well in Civil as Criminal matters he rents all these places of the King for which he pays a good deal of Money There are in this Town many Rich Merchants Bankers and Jewellers and vast numbers of very skilful Artisans Amongst the Inhabitants of Bagnagar we are to recken the forty thousand Horse Persians Moguls or Tartars whom the King entertains that he may not be again surprised as he hath been heretofore by his Enemies Besides the Indian Merchants that are at Bagnagar there are many Persians and Armenians but through the weakness of the Government the Omras sometimes squeeze them and whil'st I was there an Omra detained in his House a Gentile Banker whom he had sent for and made him give him five thousand Chequins upon the report of this Extortion the Bankers shut up their Offices but the King Commanded all to be restored to the Gentile and so the matter was taken up The Tradesmen of the Town and those who cultivate the Land are Natives of the Country There are many Franks also in the Kingdome but most of them are Portuguese who have fled thither for Crimes they have committed However the English and Dutch have lately setled there and the last make great profits They established a Factory there three years since where they buy up for the Company may Chites and other Cloaths which they vent elsewhere in the Indies They bring from Masulipatan upon Oxen the Goods which they know to be of readiest sale in Bagnagar and other Towns of the Kingdom as Cloves Pepper Cinnamon Silver Copper Tin and Lead and thereby gain very much for they say they get five an twenty for one of profit and I was assured that this profit amounted yearly to eleven or twelve hundred thousand French Livres They are made welcome in that Countrey because they make many Presents and a few days before I parted from Bagnagar their Governour began to have Trumpets and Tymbals and a Standard carried before him by Orders from his Superiours Publick Women are allowed in the Kingdom so that no body minds