my part I might have seen it to but that I had rather go a great way not to see then one step to behold such a sight After the example of that King his Governours deputed and set over Provinces and Cities proceed in the course of Justice to impose what punishment and death they please upon all offendors and malefactors That King never suffers any of his Vicegerents to tarry long in one place of Government but removes them usually after they have exercised that power which was given unto them in one place for one year unto some other place of Government remote from the former wherein they exercise their power and this that King doth that those which be his Substitutes may not in any place grow Popular I told them before that this people are very neat shaving themselves so often as that they feel the Rasor almost every day but when that King sends any of them unto any place of Government or upon any other imployment they cut not their hair at all till they return again into his presence as if they desired not to appear beautifull or to give themselves any content in this while they live out of the Kings sight and therefore the King as soon as he sees them bids them cut their hair When the Mogol by Letters sends his commands to any of his Governours those papers are entertain'd with as much respect as if himself were present for the Governour having intelligence that such Letters are come near him himself with other inferiour Officers ride forth to meet the Patamar or messenger that brings them and as soon as he sees those Letters he alights from his horse falls down on the earth and then takes them from the messenger and layes them on his head whereon he binds them fast and then returning to his place of publick meeting for dispatch of businesses he reads them and answers their contents with all care and diligence The King oft times in his own person and so his substitutes appointed Governours for Provinces and Cities Judge in all matters Criminal that concern life and death There are other Officers to assist them which are called Cut-walls whose Office is like that of our Sheriffs in England and these have many substitutes under them whose businesse it is to apprehend and to bring before these Judges such as are to be tried for things Criminal or Capital where the Offender as before knows presently what will become of him And those Officers wait likewise on other Judges there which are called Cadees who onely meddle with Contracts and Debts and other businesses of this Nature 'twixt man and man Now these Officers arrest Debtors and bring them before those Judges and their sureties too bound as with us in Contracts confirmed as before under their hands and seals and if they give not content unto those which complain of them they will imprison their persons where they shall finde and feel the weight of fetters nay many times they will sell their persons their Wives and Children into bondage when they cannot satisfie their Debts And the custom of that Countrey bears with such hard and pitilies courses such as was complain'd of by the poor widow unto the Prophet Elisha who when her husband was dead and she not able to pay the Creditor came and took her two sons to be bond men 2 King 4. 1. The Mogol looked to be presented with some thing or other when my Lord Ambassadour came to him and if he saw him often empty handed he was not welcom and therefore the East-India Company were wont every year to send many particular things unto him in the name of the King of England that were given him at several times especially then when the Ambassadour had any request unto him which made a very fair way unto it Amongst many other things when my Lord Ambassadour first went thither the Company sent the Mogol an English Coach and Harnesse for four Horses and an able Coach-man to sute and mannage some of his excellent Horses that they might be made fit for that service The Coach they sent was lined within with Crimson China velvet which when the Mogol took notice of he told the Ambassadour that he wondred the King of England would trouble himself so much as to send unto China for Velvet to Line a Coach for him in regard that he had been informed that the English King had much better Velvet near home for such or any other uses And immediately after the Mogol caused that Coach to be taken all to pieces and to have another made by it for as before they are a people that will make any new thing by a pattern and when his new Coach was made according to the pattern his work-men first putting the English Coach together did so with that they had new made then pulling out all the China Velvet which was in the English Coach there was in the room thereof put a very rich Stuffe the ground silver wrought all over in spaces with variety of flowers of silk excellently well suited for their colours and cut short like a Plush and in stead of the brasse Nails that were first in it there were Nails of silver put in their places And the Coach which his own work-men made was lined and seated likewise with a richer stuffe than the former the ground of it Gold mingled like the other with silk flowers and the Nails silver and double guilt and after having Horses and Harnesse fitted for both his Coaches He rode sometimes in them and contracted with the English Coach-man to serve him whom he made very fine by rich vests he gave him allowing him a very great Pension besides he never carried him in any of those Coaches but he gave him the reward of ten pounds at the least which had raised the Coach-man unto a very great Estate had not death prevented it and that immediately after he was setled in that great service The East-India Company sent other presents for that King as excellent Pictures which pleased the Mogol very much especialy if there were fair and beautifull Women portrayed in them They sent likewise Swords Rapiers excellently well hatcht and pieces of rich imbroidery to make sweet baggs and rich Gloves and handsome Looking glasses other things to give away that they might have alwayes some things in readiness to present both to the King and also to his Governours where our Factories were setled for all these were like those rulers of Israel mentioned Hosea 4. 18. who would love to say with shame give ye They looked to be presented with something when our Factors had any especial occasion to repair unto them and if the particular thing they then presented did not like them well they would desire to have it exchanged for something else happily they having never heard of our good and modest proverb that a man must not look into the mouth of a given Horse And it is a very
all this contented him not for never any seemed to be more weary of ill usage than he was of Courtesies none ever more desirous to return home to his Countrey than he For when he had learned a little of our Language he would daily lye upon the ground and cry very often thus in broken English Cooree home goe Souldania goe home goe And not long after when he had his desire and was returned home he had no sooner set footing on his own shore but presently he threw away his Clothes his Linnen with all other Covering and got his sheeps skins upon his back guts about his neck and such a perfum'd Cap as before we named upon his head by whom that Proverb mentioned 2 Pet. 2. 22. was literally fulfill'd Canis ad vomitum The dogge is return'd to his vomit and thâ— swine to his wallowing in the mire From all which wee may draw this Conclusion that a continued Custome may make many things that seem strange and loathsom to some even naturall to others and that the most brutish life may seem civill and best to a most brutish man and he thus pleading for it Custome the Nurse of Nature oft is prov'd Like Nurses than the Mother more belov'd Thus Bestiall crimes men by their wont excuse And love not what is good but what they use So Plutarch's Gryllus argues turn'd a Swine Against the Lawes that Wit and Arts refine Affirmes that man too curiously nice Bought his poor Reason at too dear a price Since all his actions limited must bee By measur'd Rules when beasts have liberty And unconfin'd on Natures Common feed No Lawyer no Physician Taylor need Clothes are but marks of shame medâ—cines but show Diseases and we Lawes to Quarrells owe Cookes are the Instruments of Luxury Painters of Lust Builders of Vanity Let all then live as Nature them produc'd And frame their maners as they have bin us'd 'T is most strange that a Creature who hath any thing of Reason in him should thus degenerate thus plead or thus doe but it is most true in these as of millions more of brutish Heathens in the world who live as if they had nothing at all of man left in them For man the worst of brutes when chang'd to Beast Counts to be civiliz'd to be opprest And as he tames Hawks makes Lions mild By Education so himself growes wild After this fellow was returned it made the Natives most shie of us when we arrived there for though they would come about us in great Companies when we were new come thither yet three or four dayes before they conceiv'd we would depart thence there was not one of them to be seen fearing belike we would have dealt with some more of them as formerly we had done with Cooree But it had been well if he had not seen England for as he discovered nothing to us so certainly when he came home he told his Country-men having doubtless observed so much here that Brass was but a base and cheap commoditie in England and happily we had so well stored them with that metall before that we had never after such a free Exchange of our Brass and Iron for their Cattell It was here that I asked Cooree who was their God he lifting up his hands answered thus in his bad English England God great God Souldania nâ— God Now if any one desire to know under whose Command these Brutes live or whether they have any Superiority Subordination amongst themselves or whether they live with their females in common with many other questions that might be put I am not able to satisfie them But this I look upon as a great happiness not to be born one of them and as great nay a far greater misery to fall from the loyns of Civill Christian Parents and after to degenerate into all brutishness as very many doe qui Gentes agunt sub nomine Christianorum the thing which Tertullian did most sadly bewail in many of his time who did act Atheism under the Name of Christianity and did even shame Religion by their light and loose professing of it When Anacharsis the Philosopher was sometime upbraided with this that he was a Scythian by birth he presently returned this quick and smart answer unto him that cast that in his teeth Mihi quidem Patria est dedecus tu autem Patriae my Country indeed is some disparagement to me but thou art a disgrace to thy Country as there be many thousands more beside who are very burdens to the good Places that give them Breaâ—h Bread Alas Turkie and Barbary and these Africans with many millions more in that part of the world in America and in Asia I and in Europe too would wring their hands into peeces if they were truly sensible of their condition because they know so little And so shall infinite numbers more one day born in the visible Church of God in the valley of visions Es 22. 1. have their very hearts broken into shivers because they knew so much or might have known so much and have known and done so little for without all doubt the day will one day come when they who have sinned against the strongest means of Grace and Salvation shall feel the heaviest miserie when their means to know God in his will revealed in his Word shall be put in one Balance and their improvement of this means by their Practice in the other and if there have not bin some good proportion betwixt these two manifested in their lives what hath been wanting in their Practice shall be made up in their Punishment But I would not here more digress I have one thing more which accidentally relates to this place and then I will leave it In the year 1614. ten English men having received the sentence of death for their severall crimes at the Sessions house in the old-Baily at London had their Execution respited by the intreaty of the East-India Merchants upon condition that they should be all banished to this place to the end if they could find any peaceable abode there they might discover something advantagious to their trade And this was accordingly done But two of them when they came thither were taken thence and carried on the voyage One whose sirname was Duffield by Sir Thomas Row that year sent Ambassadour to the Great Mogol that fellow thus redeemed from a most sad Banishment was afterward brought back again into England by that noble Gentleman and here being intrusted by him stole some of his Plate and ran away another was carried on the Voyage likewise but what became of him afterward I know not So that there remained eight which were there left with some Ammunition and victual with a small â—oat to carry them to and from a very little unâ—â—habited Island lying in the very mouth of that Bay a place for their retreat and safety from the Natives on the Main The Island called Pen-guin Island
to learn what should be the true reason thereof it being there very far from any shore and the Sea so deep as that we could fetch no ground The 21. we discovered the main Continent of Asia the Great in which East-India takes up a large part The 22. we had sight of Deu and Damon places that lye in the skirts of India principally inhabited and well fortified by Portugals and the 25 of September we came happily to an Anchor in Swally-Road within the Bay of Cambaya the Harbour for our Fleet while they make their stay in these remote Parts Then after a long and troublesome and dangerous passage we came at last to our desired Port. And immediately after my arrival there I was sent for by Sir Thomas Row Lord Embassadour then residing at the Mogol's Court which was very many miles up in the Countrey to supply the room of Mr. John Hall his Chaplain Fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford whom he had not long before buried And I lived with that most Noble Gentleman at that Court more than two years after which I returned home to England with him During which space of my abode there I had very good advantage to take notice of very many places and persons and thing travelling with the Embassadour much in Progress with that King up and down his very large Territories And now Reader I would have thee to suppose me setting my foot upon the East-Indian shore at Swally before named On the banks whereof amongst many more English that lye there interred is laid up the body of Mr. Thomas Coryat a man in his time Not us nimis omnibus very sufficiently known He lived there and there died while I was in those parts and was for some Months then with my Lord Embassadour during which time he was either my Chamber-fellow or Tent-mate which gave me a full acquaintance of him That Greek-travelling-Thomas they which know his story know why I call him so formerly wrote a Book entituled Coryats â—rud 〈…〉 ies Printed in the beginning of the year 1611. and then ushered into the World by very many Copies of excellent Verses made by the Wits of those Times which did very much advantage and improve if not enforce the sale thereof doing themselves much more honor than him whom they undertook to commend in their several Encomiasticks And if he had lived he would have written his last Travels to and in and out of East-India for he resolved if God had spared him life to have rambled up down the world as sometimes Ulysses did and though not so long as he yet ten full years at least before his return home in which time he purposed to see Tartaria in the vast parts thereof with as much as he could of China and those other large Places and Provinces interposed betwixt East-India and China whose true Names we might have had from him but yet have not He had a purpose after â—his to have visited the Court of Prester John in Aethiopia who is there called by his own people Ho Bâ—ot The King and after this it was in his thoughts to have cast his eyes upon many other places which if he had done and lived to write those Relations seeing as he did or should such variety of Countries Cities Nations Things and been as particular in them as he was in his Venetian Journal they must needs have swoln into so many huge Volumns as would have prevented the perishing of Paper But undoubtedly if he had been continued in life to have written them there might have been made very good Use of his Observations for as he was a very Particular so was he without question a very Faithful Relator of things he saw he ever disclaiming that bold liberty which divers Travellers have and do take by speaking and writing any thing they please of remote parts when they cannot easily be contradicted taking a Pride in their feigned Relations to overspeak things being resolved in this case Not onely things to do but or'-do Speaking writing all and more too I therefore for my part believing this Relaton to be none of those have taken some things from his trust and credit in this my following Discourse And because he could not live to give an account unto the world of his own Travels I shall here by the way make some little discovery of his footsteps and flittings up and down to and fro with something besides of him in his long peregrinations to satisfie very many yet living who if they shall please to read this Discourse may recall that man once more into their remembrance who while he lived was like a perpetual motion and therefore now dead should not be quite forgotten In the year 1612. he shipt himself from London for Constantinople now called by the Turks Stombole where he took special notice of all things there most observable In which place he found very great respect and encouragement from Sir Paul Pinder then and there Embassadour to whose House he had free and welcom access whensoever he pleased Being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Grecia and in the Hellespont took special notice of those two Castles directly opposed to each other called Sestos and Abydos which stand on the several banks that bound that very narrow Sea which Places Musaeus makes famous in his very antient Poem of Hero and Leander He desired much to see where those seven Churches sometimes famous in Asia the Less stood but since their sin so darkned their light and God removed their Candlesticks from them as before he threatned those Places lye so in the dark that it cannot be well discovered where they once were Onely Smyrna is famous at this present day for Trade but not Religion and Ephesus and some others of them keep their names still though they left and lost their Faith and profession of Truth with the rest He saw what yet remains of the Ruins of sometimes great Troy but Jam Seges est ubi Troia fuit That place which was once so populous as if it had been sow'n with People And seeded thus had after born Millions of men now 's sow'n with Corn. And O jam periere Ruinae the very Ruins of that place are almost all gone to Ruine The most observable thing there yet remaining is part of an exceeding great House which is continued by Tradition to have been sometimes a part of the famous Palace of great King Priamus From Smyrna he found a Passage to Alexandria in Egypt Egypt that is called by some in regard of the Plenty it produceth the Granary or Storehouse of the World And in Egypt near Gran-Câ—iro antiently called Memphis he observed what remains of the once fam'd Pyramids Returning thence back to Alexandria with one Englishman more they found a pass by Sea to Jatta antiently called Joppa and there they met some others going to Jerusalem which is about twenty English miles distant
World Another after in hope of Fame burnt it Whither will not the thirst of Fame carry men It hath made some seek to climbe up to Heaven though by a wrong way Thus the Builders of Babel say one to another Let us build us a City and a Tower whose top may reach up to Heaven and let us make us a Name Gen. 11. 4 And it hath made others who are penurious of their Honour and prodigal of their Souls not fear to run down headlong into Hell 'T was Fame without doubt that stirred up this man unto these voluntary but hard undertakings and the Hope of that Glory which he should reap after he had finished his long Travels made him not at all to take notice of the hardship he found in them That hope of name and repute for the time to come did even feed and feast him for the time present And therefore any thing that did in any measure eclipse him in those high conceivings of his own worth did too too much trouble him which you may collect from these following instances Upon a time one Mr. Richard Steel a Merchant and servant to the East-India Company came unto us from Surat to Mandoa the place then of the Mogol's residence of which place somewhat more hereafter at which time Mr. Coryat was there with us This Merchant had not long before travelled over-land from East-India through Persia and so to Constantinople and so for England who in his travel homeward had met with Tom Coryat as he was journeying towards East-India Mr. Steel then told him that when he was in England King James then living enquired after him and when he had certified the King of his meeting him on the way the King replied Is that Fool yet living which when our Pilgrim heard it seemed to trouble him very much because the King spake no more nor no better of him saying that Kings would speak of poor men what they pleased At another time when he was ready to depart from us my Lord Embassadour gave him a Letter and in that a Bill to receive ten pounds at Aleppo when he should return thither The Letter was directed unto Mr. Libbeus Chapman there Consul at that time in which that which concerned our Traveller was thus Mr. Chapman when you shall hand these Letters I desire you to receive the Bearer of them Mr. Thomas Coryat with curtesy for you shall find him a very honest poor Wretch and further I must intreat you to furnish him with ten pounds which shall be repayed c. Our Pilgrim likâ—d tho gift well but the language by which he should have received it did not at all content him telling me That my Lord had even spoyled his curtesy in the carriage thereof so that if he had been a very Fool indeed he could have said very little less of him than he did Honest poor Wretch and to say no more of him was to say as much as nothing And furthermore he then told me that when he was formerly undertaking his journey to Venice a Person of Honour wrote thus in his behalf unto Sir Henry Wottâ—n then and there Embassodour My Lord Good Wine needs no Bush neither a Worthy man Letters Commendatory because whithersoever he comes he is his own Epistle c. There said he was some language on my behalf but now for my Lord to write nothing of me by way of Commendation but Honest poor Wretch is rather to trouble me than to please me with his favour And therefore afterwards his Letter was phras'd up to his mind but he never liv'd to receive the money By which his old acquaintance may see how tender this poor man was to be touched in any thing that might in the least measure disparago him O what pains this poor man took to make himself a Subject for present and after discourse being troubled at nothing for the present unless with the fear of not living to reap that fruit he was so ambitious of in all his undertakings And certainly he was surprized with some such thoughts and fears for so he told us afterwards when upon a time he being at Mandoa with us and there standing in a room against a stone Pillar where the Embassadour was and my self present with them upon a sudden he fell into such a swoon that we had very much ado to recover him out of it but at last come to himself he told us that some sad thoughts had immediately before presented themselves to his Fancy which as he conceived put him into that distemper like Fannius in Martial Ne moriare mori to prevent death by dying For he told us that there were great Expectations in England of the large Accounts he should give of his Travels after his return home and that he was now shortly to leave us and he being at present not very well if he should dye in the way toward Surat whither he was now intended to go which place he had not as yet seen he might be buried in Obscurity and none of his Friends ever know what became of him he travelling now as he usually did alone Upon which my Lord willed him to stay longer with us but he thankfully refused that offer and turned his face presently after towards Surat which was then about three hundred miles distant from us and he lived to come safely thither but there being over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for it as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack Is there such a thing as Sack I pray give me some Sack and drinking of it though I conceive moderately for he was a very temperate man it increased his Flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within a few daies after his very tedious and troublesome Travels for he went most on foot at this place to come to his Journies end for here he overtook Death in the Month of December 1617. and was buried as a foresaid under a little Monument like one of those are usually made in our Church-yards On which he should have been remembred by this or the like Epitaph if it could have been there engraved upon his Tombe Here lies the Wanderer of his age Who living did rejoyce Not out of need but choyce To make his life a Pilgrimage He spent full many pretious daies As if he had his being To wast his life in seeing More thought to spend to gain him Praise Some weaknesses appear'd his stains Though some seem very wise Some yet are otherwise Good Gold may be allow'd its Grains Many the Places which he ey'd And though he should have been In all parts yet unseen His eye had not been satisfi'd To fill it when he found no Room By the choyce things he saw In Europe and vast Asia Fell blinded in this narrow Tombe Sic exit Coryatus Hence he went off the Stage and so must all after
the life for confirmation of which take this instance It happened that my Lord Ambassadour visiting the Mogol on a time as he did often He presented him with a curious neat small oval Picture done to the life in England The Mogol was much pleased with it but told the Ambassadour withall that happily he supposed that there was never a one in his Countrey that could do so well in that curious Art and then offered to wager with him a Leck of Roopies a sum which amounted to no less then 10000 l. sterl that in a few dayes he would have two Coppies made by that presented to him so like that the Ambassadour should not know his own He refused the great Wager but told the King he would adventure his judgmeÌ„t on it Two Coppies taken from that Originall were within few dayes after made and brought laid before the Ambassadour in the presence of the King the Ambassadour viewing them long either out of Courtship to please the King or else unable to make a difference 'twixt the pictures being all exquisitly done took one of them which was new made for that which he had formerly presented and did after Profess that he did not flatter but mistake in that choise The truth is that the Natives of that Monarchy are the best Apes for imitation in the world so full of ingenuity that they will make any new thing by pattern how hard soever it seem to be done and therefore it is no marvell if the Natives there make Shooes and Boots and Clothes and Linnen and Bands and Cuffs of our English Fashion which are all of them very much different from their fashions and habits and yet make them all exceeding neatly They have Markets which they call Bazars to sell and buy their commodities in all their great Towns twice every day a little before and an hour after Sun rising in the morning and so a little before and a little after Sun-set at night The other parts of the day being too hot for those great confluences of people to meet together and those are the seasons we English-men there make use of to ride abroad and take the air the rest of the day we usually spend in our houses The people there â—ell almost all their provisions as very many other things by weight For the forein Trade of this people it is usually once a year into the Red Sea to a City called Moha in Arabia the happy about thirty leagues from the mouth of it It is a principall Mart for all Indian commodities but the staple and most principall there vented is their Cotten-cloth either white or steyned and their Cotten-wooll Hither they come from grand Cairo in Egypt as from many other parts of the Turks Dominions to trafique Hither they come from Prester Johns Countrey which lyes on the other side of the Arabian Golfe for so the Red Sea is there called and not above fourteen leagues over at the City Moha The Ship or Junk for so it is called that usually goes from Surat to Moha is of an exceeding great burden some of them I believe fourteen or fifteen hundred Tunns or more but those huge vessels are bery ill built like an over-grown Liter broad and short but made exceeding big on purpose to waff passengers forward and backward which are Mahumetans who goe on purpose to visit Mahomets sepulcher at Medina neer Mecha but many miles beyond Moha The passengers and others in that most capacious vessell that went and returned that year I left India as we were credibly told amounted to the number of seventeen hundred Those Mahumetans that have visited Mahumets Sepulcher are ever after called Hoggees or holy men This Junk bound from Surat to the Red-Sea as she hath many people in her so hath she good Ordnance but those Navigators know not well how to use them for their defence She begins her voyage about the twentieth of March and finisheth it about the end of September following The voyage is but short and might easily be made in less than three moneths but the ship is very slow and ill-built to abide foul weather and in the long season of the rain and a little before and after it the winds upon those coasts are commonly so violent that there is no comming but with much hazard into the Indian Sea This Ship returning is usually worth as I have heard it faithfully reported and if my credit given to that report make me not to abuse my Readers two hundred thousand pounds ster 〈…〉 g and most of it brought back in good Gold and Silver some fine Chamlets they bring with them home likewise but that huge mass of wealth thus brought home into India is another especiall thing and might have been added to that I spake of before towards the continuall enriching of this great Monarchy where in the next place I shall speak SECTION VI. Of the care and skill of this people in keeping and managing their excellent good Horses Of their Elephants and their ordering and managing them And how the people ride and are carried up and down from place to place THe Souldery here and so many of the Gentry and better sort of the people who live at Court shew excellent good skill in riding and managing of their well turn'd high metald choise horses which are excellent good at mounting up bounding and curvetting and when they runne them at their full swiftest speed will stop them at a foots breadth for the scantling of those creatures they are in proportion like ours but excellently well eyed headed limn'd for their colours there are some of them Raven black but many more of them white curiously dapled and a very great number Pied and spotted all oâ—er and there are some of other bright colours But it is a usual custom there amongst Gallants who ride upon the bright coloured horses to have their leggs lower parts of their Bellyes and Brests died into a Saffron colour of which they have much there which makes them look as if they had stood in some Dyars vate just up to such an height of their bodyes The hair upon their Horses whom they keep plump and fat is very short soft and lyes sleek upon them and I wonder not at it they are kept so daintily every Horse being allowed a man to dress and feed him and to run by him when he is rode forth and this is all his work They tye not down their horse heads when they stand still as we do with hal ets but secure each horse by two ropes fastned to their hinde feet which ropes are somwhat long to be staked down behind them in tents or other places wherein they are kept They cut grass for them green or withered on the earth as they have occasion to use it never mowing their ground and making hay as we do But that which keeps their Horses in heart and in flesh is the provender they eat which is a kinde
first day of his comming thither found a way to an Armenian Christians house who sold wine in that place they call Armenian Wine But by the way I do believe that there was scarce another in that populous City of that trade the greater shame for those whosoever they be that suffer so many unnecessary tipling-houses in the places where they have power to restrain them which are the Devills nursery the very Tents wherein Sathan dwells where Almighty God receives abundance of dishonour drun keness being a sin which hath hands and fingers to draw all other sins unto it For a drunkard can do any thing or be any thing but good That Armenian Wine I speak of is made of Reysons of the Sun and Sugar with some other things pur and boyled in water which Wine when it is ripe and cleer is in Colour like to our Muscadels pleasant enough to the tast but heavy and heady The Cook had his head quickly over-freighted with it and then staggering homeward in his way met the Governors Brother of Surat as he was riding to his house the Cook made a stand staying himself up upon his sword scabbard and cry'd out to the Governours Brother Now thou Heathen dog He not understanding his foul language replyed civilly in his own Ca-ca-ta which signifies what sayest thou the Cook answered him with his sword and scabbard with which he strook at at him but vvas immediatly seised on by his follovvers and by them disarm'd and carried to Prison the Ambassadour had present intelligence of the misbehaviour of his drunken servant and immediatly sent vvord unto the Governours Brother that he vvas not come thither to patronize any disorderly person and therefore desir'd him to do vvith him what he pleased upon which he presently sent him home not doing him the least hurt But before I leave this storie it will not be amiss to enquire who was the Heathen dog at this time whether the debaucht drunken Cook who call'd himself a Christian or that sober and temperate Mahometan who was thus affronted In our journey towards the Court after we had been in our way about seven dayes from Surat we rested at a place called Ditat where many of the Inhabitants offered to guard us and our goods though we observing there no danger desired it not but they would do it and in the morning expected and asked something of us by way of recompence One of our Company who had been in East India a year or two before told them that what they had done they did without ouâ— desire and therefore they should have nothing from us but some ill language which he then gave them We set forward in the morning according to our wonted custom they followed after us to the number at the least of three hundred men for the place was great and populous and when we were gone about a mile from that Town stopped our carriages he of our Company who told them they should have no recompence was presently ready to shoot at them with his Musket which made them all to bend their Bowes at us but I happily and suddenly stepping in prevented his firing at them and their shooting at us which if I had not by Gods good Providence done but we had madly engaged such a great multitude there could not have been less expected in the sad issue thereof than the loss of all our lives and goods but having a little Parlee with them for the value of three shillings of English money given amongst them they were all quieted and contented and immediatly left us wishing us a good journey After this when we had gone forward about twenty dayes journey which daily remooves were but short by reason of our heavy carriages and the heat of the weather it happened that another of our Company a young Gentleman about twenty years old the Brother of a Baron of England behaved himself so ill as that we feared it would have brought very much mischief on us This young man being very unruly at home and so many others that have been well born when their friends knew not what to do with them have been sent to East India that so they might make their own Graves in the Sea in their passage thither or els have Graves made for them on the Indian shore when they come there A very cleanly conveyance but how just and honest I leave to others for Parents to be rid of their unruly Children but I never knew any who were thus supposed to be sent thither but they outlived that voyage For the young Gentleman I spake of his imployment was to wait upon our chief Commander in his Cabin who very courteously when he came to Sea turn'd him before the mast amongst the common saylors a great preferment for a man of his birth but for all this he outliv'd that harsh usage and came safely to East India and my Lord Ambassadour hearing of him and being well acquainted with his great kindred sent for him up to the Court and there entertain'd him as a Companion for a year then giving him all fit accommodations sent him home again as a passenger for England where after he safely arrived But in our way towards that Court it thus happened that this hot-brains being a little behind us commanded him then neer him who was the Princes servant before spoken of to hold his horse the man replyed that he was none of his servant and would not do it Upon which this most intemperate mad youth who was like Philocles that angry Poet and therefore called Bilis Salsigo Choler and Brine for he was the most hasty and cholerick young man that ever I knew as will appear by his present carriage which was thus first he beat that stranger for refusing to hold his horse with his horse-whip which I must tell you that people cannot endure as if those whips stung worse than Scopions For of any punishments that carry most disgrace in them as that people think one is to be beaten with that whip where with all they strike their beasts the other to be beaten and this they esteem the more disgracefull punishment of the two about the head with shooes But this stranger being whipt as before came up and complained to me but to make him amends that frantick young man mad with rage and he knew not wherefore presently followed him and being come up close to him discharg'd his Pistol laden with a brace of bullets directly at his body which bullets by the special guidance of the hand of God so flew that they did the poor man no great hurt only one of them first tearing his coat brused all the knucles of his left hand and the other brake his bow which he carried in the same hand We presently disarmed our young Bâ—dlam till he might return again to his witts But our greatest business was how to pacifie the other man whom he had thus injured I presently gave him