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A95658	A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. / Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing T782; Thomason E1614_1; ESTC R234725	261,003	580

and reade their language in written hand for as before they have no Printing Those Moolaas are more distinguished from the rest of the Mahometans by their Beards which they weare long then by any other of their habits Their calling gaines and gives them very much reverence and esteeme amongst the People as another sort of priests there have of an high order or ranke which live much retired but when they appeare openly are most highly reverenced they are called Seayds who derive themselves from Mahomet The Mahometans have faire Churches which as before are called Mosquits their Churches are built of Marble or Courser stone the broad side towards the West is made up close like a firme wall and so are both ends in which there are no lights the other broad side towards the East is erected upon Pillars where a man may take notice of excellent workemanship both in vaults and arches the spaces betwixt them pillars stand open Their Churches are built long and narrow standing North and South which way they lay up the bodies of their dead but none of them within their Churches At the four Corners of their Mosquits which stand in great Cityes or in other places much peopled the●e are high and round but small Turrets which are made open with lights every way wherein a man may be easily seene and heard their devout Moolaas five times every day ascend unto the tops of those high Turrets whence they proclaim as loudly as they can possibly speake their Prophet Mahomet thus in Arabian La alla illa alla Mahomet Resul-alla that is he re is no God but one God and Mahomet the messenger from God That voyce instead of Bells which they use not in their Churches puts the most devout in minde of the houres of their devotion those Priests being exceedingly zealous to promote the cause and to keep up the honour of their Mahomet as the men of Ephesus sometime were when they feared that the credit of their baggage Diana was like to be called into question they took up a Cry which continued for the space of two houres Crying out with one voyce greaet is Diana of the Ephesians Act. 19. 24. When a mans Religion is right he ought to be very zealous in the maintenance of it very fearefull of the hazard or loss thereof And therefore if these Mahometans or those men of Ephesus had had truth on their side they would both have deserved much commendation for what they did And so Micha too who thus complained when he had lost his jmages Judg. 18. 24. they have stol'n away my Gods and what have I more I confess that the loss of God is the greatest of all losses but those were proper Gods which Micha there bewayled that would be stol'n that could not save themselves who if the fire spare them rust or rottenness or time will consume them But those Mahometans though they doe not endure either Idoles or Images in their houses or Churches yet are they very forward to cry up their irreligion and to shew much zeale for it Zeale is derived from a word that signifies to burne it is a compound made up of many affections as of griefe joy love anger well tempered together and when it is so it hath its due commendation both of God and man and cursed is he that goes about to extinguish that holy fire that holy fire I say which hath light in it as well as Heat and heate as well as light The truth of Zeale may be further discovered of zeale that is good if we confider first the Roote from which it springs and that 's the knowledg and Love of God Secondly the Rule by which it is carryed on and acts and that 's the word and will of God and lastly the end it aymes at and intends and that 's the honour and glory of God and zeale thus ordered cannot be too violent but when for want of these it becomes irregular and shews it selfe over much in bad causes such as before were nam'd it is Cursus celerrimus sed praeter viam a swift violent motion but quite out of the way And if it be good to be zealous in a good cause then it is better to be zealous in the best and the best cause to shew zeale in is the cause of God Pro Aris Focis was the old good Proverb first to stand up for Gods rights and afterward for our owne and to believe that that vnum necessarium which our Saviour commends unto us Lu. 10 42. is that one thing principally and especially necessary though the Devill and our owne corruption will tell us if we will believe them that there is nothing more needless When Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and spake unto him about sacrificing unto the Lord their God Pharaoh replyes yee are idle yee are idle therefore yee say let us goe and sacrifice unto the Lord Ex. 5. 17. the same Devill that there spake in Pharaoh speaks in all ignorant and prophane people who call Religion idleness and hypocrisie a strict and even walking with God singularity or a doing more then God requires us to perform But however that is most true which was spoken by Philo judeus ubi de religione ibi quoque de vita agitur we must act for religion as we would strive for life Philosophy tels us that Tactus est fundamentum animae sensitivae that the very foundation of natural life is feeling so then no feeling no life and the want of spirituall feeling argues a want too of spirituall life The poore seduced Mahometans and many others in the world are very keene and sharp and forward to maintaine that which they call Religion the more shame for those who profess themselves Christians and have a sure word to build their hope upon yet are ferventissimi in terrenis in coelestibus frigidissimi as hot as fire in earthly as cold as ice in heavenly things A sad thing to consider that so many should have their tongues bent like Bowes for lyes as the prophet Jeremy complaines Jer. 9. 37. and Christians not valiant for the truth that others should drive like Jehu furiously madly and that in the waies of error injustice oppression prophaness as in all other kinds of wickedness and Christians in the cause of God more heavily slowly like the Egyptians in the Red-Sea when their chariot wheeles were off Shall Turks and Infidels solicit bad causes so earnestly and Christians those actions which are good so faintly Acrius ad p●rniciem quam nos ad vitam make more hast to destruction then Christians to life and happiness It was St. Jeromes complaint considerare pudet quantus feruor quae cura c. That he was asham'd to consider how solici●ous some men were in earthly and how sluggish others in heavenly things as if they durst not so much as to owne the cause of God they were wont to say of cowards in Rome that there was nothing

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA Wherein Some things are taken notice of in our passage thither but many more in our abode there within that rich and most spacious Empire Of the Great Mogol Mix't with some Parallel Observations and inferences upon the storie to profit as well as delight the Reader Observed by Edward Terry then Chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol now Rector of the Church at Greenford in the County of Middlesex In journeying often in perils of waters in perils of Robbers in perils by the Heathen in perils in the Sea 1 Cor. 11. 26. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters yea than the mighty waves of the Sea Psal 93. 4. Digitis a morte remotus Quatuor aut Septem Ju. Sat. 12. Qui Nescit orare discat navigare ubique Naufragium London Printed by T. W. for J. Martin and J. Allestrye at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1655. To the Reader READER THere was never age more guilty than this present of the great expence and waste of paper whose fair innocence hath been extreamly stubber'd by Errors Heresies Blasphemies and what not in these bold times which like so many the foulest of all blots blurs hath defiled very much of it so true is that of the Poet Tenet insanabile multos Scribendi Cacoëthes Ju. Certainly there hath been of late abundantly more printed than ought than should if what follows in this discourse lay under the guilt of any such just exception it should feel the fire not the press The summe substance of what here follows as a description of that Empire I long since composed shortly after my return from East-India and then presented it in writing unto the late King when he was Prince of Wales in the year 1622. with this short following Epistle Most Renowned Prince I Have nothing to plead for this high presumption but the Novelty of my subject in which I confesse some few have prevented me who bv traveling India in England or Europe have written somewhat of those remotest parts but like unto poor Tradesmen who take up Wares on trust have been deceived themselves and do deceive of others For my self I was an eye-witnesse of much here related living more than two years at the Court of that mighty Monarch the great Mogol who prides himself very much in his most famous Ancestor Tamberlane in the description of whose Empire your Highnesse may meet with large Territories a numerous Court most populous pleasant and rich Provinces but when all these shall be laid in the Balance against his miserable blindnesse your Highnesse shall have more cause to pity than envy his greatnesse I am not ambitious to make this my Relation publick and therefore if it consume more paper it shall not be my fault As it is in a fearfull boldnesse 't is offered to your Princely hands and if it may be any way pleasing and usefull I have my reward if not my most humble desires to have ministred something this way unto your Highnesse shall be my comfort Thus Reader thou hearest when this Relation was first written and into what hands it was then put And although there be now a very great space of time 'twixt the particulars then observed and their publication now which may make thee look upon that which is here brought forth as an untimely birth or as a thing born out of due time Therefore know which may give thee some satisfaction herein that for the commodities and discommodities of those remote parts for the customes and manners of that people for their Religion and policie with every thing beside wherein thou mayest desire information which lies within the vast compasse of that huge Monarchy expressed in the Map and further described in this following discourse time not making that people at all to varie from themselves thou mayest look upon it now as if it hath been taken notice of but immediately before it was here communicated and if it prove usefull now I shall be very glad that it was reserved even for this present time wherein it might do some good Yet notwithstanding this it should never have been brought by me into this more open view especially in such a scribling writing age as this where there is no end of making many books and many of those written to no end but what is evil and mischievous but that the Printer who had gotten my Original Copie presented as before desired to publish it And because so I have revised and in some particulars by pertinent though in some places very long digressions which I would intreat the Reader to improve so enlarged it that it may if it reach my aim contain matter for instruction and use as well as for relation and novelty So that they who fly from a Sermon and will not touch sound and wholesom and excellent treatises in Divinity may happily if God so please be taken before they are aware and overcome by some Divine truths that lie scattered up and down in manie places of this Narrative To which end I have endeavoured so to contrive it for every one who shall please to read it through that it may be like a well form'd picture that seems to look stedfastly upon everie heholder who so looks upon it But here Reader let us sit down and wonder that in these dayes which are called times of Reformation manie choise books are often published which contain in themselves and declare unto others very much of the minde of God yet are laid aside as if they were not worth the looking into and in their stead Romances and other Pamphlets ejusdem farinae of the like kinde which do not inform but corrupt rather the mindes of those which look so much into them teaching wickednesse while they seem to reprove it are the books O times which are generally call'd for bought up read and liked When a Traveller sometimes observed the women in Rome to please themselves in and overmuch to play with their Curs and Monkeys he asked whether or no the women of Rome did not bear Children to delight themselves withall The storie is so parallel to what I before observed that he who runs may make Application and therefore I forbear to do it As for that I have here published I know habent sua fata libelli that books have their Fates as well as their Authors and therefore this Relation now it is got into the World must take its chance whatsoever its successe or acceptance be But however I shall never be of their minde who think those books best which best sell when certain it is that they are not to be valued by their good sale but good use Which while some may make of this others who love to carp and censure and quarrel so as to make a man an offender for a word may put harsh interpretation upon some passages they may find in this

but they are not common which are very large square Beasts bigger than the largest Oxen England affords their skins without hair lye in great wrinkles upon their necks breasts and backs which doth not make them seem lovely unto the beholders They have very strong but short Horns growing upon very firm bones that lye over their Nostrils they grow upwards towards the top of their head every one of these Creatures being fortified with one of them and that enough to make them so terrible that they are shunn'd by other though very large Creatures With these Horns from which those Creatures have their Names are made very excellent Cups which as is conceived give some virtue unto the liquor put into them if it stand any whit long in those Cups And now to conclude with the largest and the most intelligent as we shall hereafter shew of all the sensible Creatures the Earth produceth the Elephant of which this vast Monarchy hath abundance and of them the Mogol is Master of many thousands and his Nobles and all men of quality besides in those large Territories have more or less of them But of these much shall be spoken in my sixt Section I observed before that the Inhabitants of this Empire did carry most of their burthens upon the backs of their Beasts and in a special manner this people employ their Camels and Dromedaries for this use to carry their Merchandizes from place to place and therefore I shall let my Reader see SECTION III. What the chief Merchandizes and most Staple and other Commodities are which are brought into this Empire THE most Staple Commodities of this Empire are Indico and Cotten-Wool of that Wool they make divers sorts of Callico which had that name as I suppose from Callicute not far from Goa where that kind of Cloth was first bought by the Portugals For the Spices brought hither by the East-India Fleet they are had more Southerly from the Islands of Sumatra from Java major and minor from the Moluccoes and from other places thereabout In which as in the Molucco Islands and those other parts too from whence the richest Spices come the Low-Countrey Merchants have got such footing and such a particular interest that our English Factors there for the present buy those Commodities as we sometimes do buy Provisions and Commodities here at home out of the engrossing Hucksters hands So that our English in those parts have a free Trade for no kind of Spice but for that which is one of the lowest prized namely Pepper which they fetch from Bant 〈…〉 Which more general Trade of the Dutch they have formerly gained at a very vast expence by fortifying them●●●ves there i● the places where-ever they settle and then standing upon their Guard put a kind of force upon the Natives to fell them their Commodities What the carriage of that people hath formerly been in those parts towards our English where th 〈…〉 Sword hath been longest is sufficiently made known by other Pens This I may conclude from their example and I would that they were ●●ingular and alone in it that when a people will not be ordered by that Royal Law which commands us Mat. 7. 12. to do nothing but what we would be content to suffer as to do nothing unto other's but what we would be well content to suffer from others But on the contrary when they measure things not by the strait and even Rule of Equity but by the crooked and oblique Line of Power arming their In justice to do what they please because they can do what they will This causeth many to make very bold with God in cases that seem to give advantage unto their high Thoughts and Commodities for what evil cannot Ambition and Covetousness do when they are back● with an arbitrary and unlimited power here below if they be not ch 〈…〉 by a stronger Arm from above Whence we se● it often come to pass that when the Laws of Nature and Nations yea of God himself lye in the way of their profit or earthly advantages whatever their sufferings or loss be afterward they either spurn them thence or else tread and trample upon them at pleasure to compass their ends for the present This I can say of the Dutch something from my own knowledge but more from the report of others that when I lived in those parts and we English there were more for number than they and consequently could receive no hurt from them we there used them as Neighbours and Brethren but in other places where they had the like advantage of us they dealt with us neither like Christians nor Men. But I will not here any longer digress but return to speak further of the Commodities to be had in East-India The Indico we bring thence is a good and a rich Commodity It is there made of little leaves not bigger than those on our Gooseberry bushes and the shrubs that bear those leaves are about their bigness These leaves they slip off from the small branches of those bushes which grow with round and full heads without pricks The leaves thus stripp'd off are laid in great heaps together certain daies till they have been in a hot sweat then are they removed and put into very great and deep Ve●sels fill'd with a sufficient quantity of water to sleep them in where they leave their blew tincture with their substance this done the water is drain'd out into other exceeding broad but very shallow Vessels or Vats made of Plaister like to that we call Plaister of Paris which will keep in all the Liquor till the hot Sun in short time extracts the moysture from it and then what remains in the bottom is a Cream about one quarter of an inch thick which suddenly becomes hard and dry and that is our Indico the best sort whereof comes from Biana near unto Agra and a coarser sort is made at Cirkeese not far from Amadanaz about which two places are a very great number of those shrubs planted which bear those leaves For their Cotton-wool they sow seed and very large quantities of Ground in East-India are thus seeded It grows up like small Rose-b●shes and then puts forth many yellow blossoms those afterward falling off there remain little Gods about the bigness of a Man's thumb in which the substance at first is moyst and yellow but as they ripen they swell bigger till they break their Covering and after in short time that within them becomes Wool as white as Snow and then they gather it Amongst that Wool they find seeds to sow again as they have occasion but those shrubs bear that Wool three or four years e're they supplant them Of this Cotton-wool they make divers sorts of white Cloth as before I observed some broad some narrow some coarse some sine and very fine indeed for some that I have seen there I believe was as fine as our purest Lawn Much of the coarser sort of that Cloth they dye

wears out They have pure Gold Coyn likewise some pieces of great value but these are not very ordinarily seen amongst them I have now done with this Section wherein I have related much of the Commodities Riches as before of the Provisions and Pleasures which are to be found in that vast Monarchy and I conceive nothing but what Truth will justifie And now lest that place I have describ'd should seem to be an Earthly Paradise I must acquaint my Reader that the Contents there found by such as have lived in those parts are sour'd and sauc'd with many unpleasing things which he must needs know when he takes notice SECTION IV. Of the discommodities inconveniences and annoyances that are to be found or met withall in this Empire AS the Poets feigned that the Garden of the Hesperides wherein were Trees that bare Golden apples was guarded by a Serpent so there are stings here as well as fruits all considered together may not unfitly be resembled by those Locusts mentioned Re. 9. 7 8 10. verses who had the Faces of men and the haire of women and Crowns as of Gold on their heads but they had too the teeth of Lyons and the tayles of Scorpions and there were stings in those tayles Here are many things to content and please the enjoyers of them to make their life more comfortable but withall here are Teeth to tear and stings to Kill All put together are nothing but a mixture made up as indeed all earthly things are of good and bad of bitter and sweet of what contents and of what contents not The annoyances of these Countryes are first many harmfull beasts of prey as Lions Tygres Wolves Jackalls with others those Jackalls seem to be wild Doggs who in great companies run up and down in the silent night much disquieting the peace thereof by their most hidious noyse Those most ra●enous creatures will not suffer a man to rest quietly in his grave for if his body be not buried very deep they will dig him thence and bury as much of him again as they can consume in their hung●y bellyes In their Rivers are many Crocodiles and Latet anguis in herbâ on the land not a few overgrown snakes with other vene●●ous and pernicious creatures In our houses there we often see Lyzards shaped like unto Crocodiles of a sad green colour and but little creatures the fear of whom presents its self most to the eye for I do not know that they are hurtfull There are many Scorpions to be seen which are oftentimes felt which creep into their houses especially in that time of the raines whose stinging is most sensible and deadly if the patient have not presently some oyl that is made of Scorpions to annoint the part affected which is a suddain and a certain cure But if the man can get the Scorpion that stung him as sometimes they do the oyly substance it affords being beaten in peeces suddenly applyed is a present help The sting of the Scorpion may be a very fit resemblance of the sting of Death the bitterness and angu●sh whereof nothing can asswage and cure so well as a serious consideration and a continuall application of the thoughts of Dying Facile contemnit omnia qui cogitat se semper moriturum that man may trample upon every thing whose meditations are taken up with the thoughts of his change He cannot dye but well who dyes dayly dayly in his preparations for death though he dye not presently The Scorpions are in shape like unto our Crafishes and not bigger and look black like them before they are boyled they have a little round tayl which turns up and lyes usually upon their backs at the end whereof is their sting which they do not put in and l●t out of their bodyes as other venemous creatures doe but it alwayes appeares in their tayles ready to strake it is very sharp and hard and not long but crooked like the talon of an Hawk The aboundance of Flyes like those swarmes in Egypt Ex. 8. 21. in those parts did likewise very much annoy us for in the heat of the day their numberless number was such as that we could not be quiet in any place for them they beeing ready to fly into our cupps and to cover our meat assoon as it was placed on the table and therefore we had alwayes some of the Natives we kept there who were our servants to stand round about us on purpose while we were eating with Napkins to fright them away And as in the day one kinde of ordinary flyes troubled us so in the night we were likewise very much disquieted with another sort called Musqu●etoes like our Gnatts but somewhat less and in that season we were very much troubled with Chinches another sort of little troublesome and offensive creatures like little Tikes and these annoyed us two wayes as first by their biting and stinging and then by their stink From all which we were by far more free when we lodged in tents as there we did much than when we abode in houses where in great cities and towns to adde unto the disquiets I before named there were such an aboundance of large hungry Ratts that some of us were bitten in the night as we lay in our bedds either on our toes or fingers or on the tipps of our eares or on the tops of our noses or in any part of our bodies besides they could get into their mouths The winds in those parts as I observed before which they call the Mo●t soone blow constantly one way altering but few points six months Southerly and six months Northerly The months of April May and the beginning of June till the rain falls are so extremely hot as that the winde when it blowes but gently receives such heat from the parched ground that the reflection thereof is ready to blister a mans face that receives the breath of it And if God did not provide for those parts by sending a breeze or breath or small gale of winde daily which somewhat tempers that hot sulphureous air there were no living in that Torrid Zone for us English who have been used to breath in a tēperate climate and notwithstanding that benefit the air in that place is so hot to us English that we should be every day stewed in our own moisture but that we stirre very little in the heat of the day and have cloathing about us as thin as we can make it And no marvail for the coldest day in the whole year at noon unless it be in the time when those raines fall is hotter there than the hottest day in England Yet I have there observed most strange and suddaine changes of heat and cold within few houres as in November and December the most temperate months of their year as before and then at midnight the air was so exceeding fresh and cold that it would produce a thin Ice on the water and then as we lay in our Tents

monster Nero observed before who was called Lutum sanguine maceratum dirt soaked in bloud For his good actions he did relieve continually many poor people and not seldom would shew many expressions of duty and strong affection to his Mother then living so that he who esteemed the whole World as his Vassals would help to carry her in a Palankee upon his shoulders and in this he did exceedingly differ from that most unnatural and cruel Nero who most barbarously killed his own Mother Agrippina causing as they write that Bed in which he was conceived and from whence born and wherein he took up his first lodging to be ript up and spoiled The Mogol would often visite the cells of those he esteemed religious men whose persons he esteemed sacred as if they had been Demi-gods And he would speak most respectively of our blessed Saviour Christ but his Parentage his poverty and his crosse did so confound his thoughts that he knew not what to think of them As Bernard complained of some in his time that they took offence at the clowts and rags of our blessed Saviour at the humility and meannesse of his birth believing that it could not stand with the Majesty of the Son of God to appear in the World in such meannesse as he did though he had been told that Christ Jesus came into the World in that low condition that he might beat down the pride thereof And that at his first coming he came for sinners and then he came in great humility but at his second coming he shall come against sinners and then will he appear in power great glory Lastly the Mogol is very free and noble unto all those which fall into and abide in his affection which brings me now to speak SECT XXVI Of the exceeding great Pensions the Mogol gives unto his Subjects how they are raised and how long they are continued c. WHich great revenues that many of them do enjoy makes them to live like great Princes rather than other men Now for those Pensions which are so exceeding great the Mogol in his far extended Monarchy allowes yearly pay for one Million of horse and for every horse and man about eighteen pounds sterling per annum which is exactly paid every year raised from Land and other Commodities which that Empire affords and appointed for that purpose Now some of the Mogol's most beloved Nobles have the pay of six thousand horse and there are others at the least twenty in his Empire which have the pay of 5000. horse exceeding large Pensions above the revenue of any other Subjects in the whole World they amounting unto more than one hundred thousand pounds yearly unto a particular man Now others have the pay of four thousand horse others of three or two or one thousand horse and so downward and these by their proportions are appointed to have horses alwayes in readinesse well mann'd and otherwise appointed for the Kings service so that he who hath the pay of five or six thousand must alwayes have one thousand in readinesse or more according to the Kings need of them and so in proportion all the rest which enables them on a sudden to make up the number at the least of two hundred thousand horse of which number they have alwayes at hand one hundred thousand to wait upon the King wheresoever he is There are very many private men in Cities and Towns who are Merchants or Tradesmen that are very rich but it is not safe for them that are so so to appear least that they should be used as fill'd sponges But there is never a Subject in that Empire who hath Land of inheritance which he may call his own but they are all Tenants at the will of their King having no other title to that they enjoy besides the Kings favour which is by far more easily lost than gotten It is true that the King advanceth many there unto many great honours and allows them as before marvelous great revenues but no Son there enjoyes either the Titles or means of his Father that hath had Pensions from that King for the King takes possession of all when they are dead appointing their Children some competent means for their subsistence which they shall not exceed if they fall not into the Kings affection as their Fathers did wherefore many great men in this Empire live up to the height of their means and therefore have a very numerous train a very great retinue to attend upon them which makes them to appear like Princes rather than subjects Yet this their necessary dependance on their King binds them unto such base subjection as that they will yield with readinesse unto any of his unreasonable and wilfull commands As Plutarch writes of the Souldiers of Scipio nullu● est horum qui non conscensâ turri semet in mare praecipitaturus si jussero that there was never a one in his Army by his own report that would not for a word of his mouth have gone up into a Tower and cast himself thence head-long into the Sea and thus the people here will do thing the King commands them to do so that if he bid the Fa●her to lay hands of violence upon his Son or the Son upon his Father they will do it rather than the will of their King should be disobeyed Thus forgetting Nature rather than Subjection And this tye of theirs I say upon the Kings favour makes all his Subjects most servile flatterers for they will commend any of his actions though they be nothing but cru●lty so any of his speeches though nothing but folly And when the King sits and speaks to any of his people publickly there is not a word falls from him that is not written by some Scr●veners or Scribes that stand round about him In the year 1618. when we lived at that Court there appeared at once in the Moneth of November in their Hemisphear two great Blazing-stars the one of them North the other South which unusual sight appeared there for the space of one Moneth One of those strange Comets in the North appeared like a long blazing Torch or Launce fired at the upper end the other in the South was round like a pot boyling out fire The Mogol consulted with his flattering Astrologers who spake of these Comets unto the King as Daniel sometimes did of Nebuchadnezzars dream Dan. 4. 19. My Lord the dream is to them that hate thee and the interpretation thereof unto thine Enemies For his Astrologers told him that he needed not trouble himself with the thought thereof for it concerned other places and people not him nor his But not long after this their season of Rain before spoken of which was never known to fail till then failed them and this caused such a famine and mortality in the South parts of his Empire that it did very much unpeople it and in the Northern part thereof whether the Mogol then repaired his third Son Sultan