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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	treasurer_n	2,704	5	10.8093	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19470	A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies) trauelled by land through many vnknowne kingdomes, and great cities VVith a particular description of all those kingdomes, cities, and people. As also a relation of their commodities and manner of traffique, and at what seasons of the yeere they are most in vse. Faithfully related. With a discouery of a great emperour called the Great Mogoll, a prince not till now knowne to our English nation. By Captaine Robert Couerte.	Coverte, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 5895; ESTC S105141	45,255	78

His second sonne liueth with him and is called Sultane Nawbree and him hée thinketh to make his heire apparant His third sonne is called Sultane Lawlle and is Uiceroy of Lihorne His fourth sonne is called Sultane Lill and is Uiceroy of the Gentiles and these are his fiue sonnes Also hée hath ten Uiceroys more vnder him that gouern ten seuerall Prouinces or Countries viz. Can Canow Uiceroy of the Guzarats Can Iohn Uiceroy of the Bulloites Michall Can Uiceroy of the Bannians Howsouer Can Uiceroy of Cambaia Hodge Iohn Uiceroy of Bengolla Michaell Can Uiceroy of the Hendownes Sawder Can Uiceroy of the Puttans and hée lieth in the City of Candahar Allee Can Uiceroy of the Bullochies and lieth in the City of Buckera Sawber Can Uiceroy of the Multans and Can Bullard Uiceroy of the Indestands These are the names of his ten Uiceroys béeing all Heathens but very worthy men and expert in the warres Hée hath a great number of Noble men to attend on him An Earle is called a Nawbob and they are the chiefe men that attend on him when he go●eth abroad for at home none attend him but Euenuches or gelded men His Lord chiefe Iustice is an Euenuch and is cal●led Awlee Nawbob hée is thought to bée woorth twenty English millions Hée kéepeth twenty Elephants one hundreth and fifty Camels and Dromedaries and fiue hundreth Horse to attend on him The Lord Treasurer is a mighty man called Sultan Carowdon Hée hath forty Elephants to attend him two hundreth Camels and Dromedaries and one thousand Horse at his seruice And when he commeth to sit in his place of Iustice hée is brought vpon an Elephant clad in cloth of gold or siluer and sometimes in a Pollankan carried by foure slaues he lying in it as if hée lay in a cradle in as great pomp and ease as may bée and hath four maces of siluer and gilt carried before him and ten banners and as great attendance as if hee were a King yet on Twesdaies and Thursdaies the King himselfe sits in Iudgement of all causes He custometh all strangers goods himselfe the custome beeing but small at his pleasure as sometimes the value of ten shillings custometh goods worth two hundreth pound Also if a Merchant stranger bring wares or merchandize from a farre Countrey as from Chyna Bengalla and thinketh hée shall make a bad voiage or lose thereby if hée acquaint the King therewith and that the merchandize bée fit for Kings Princes and Noble men the King himselfe will take part thereof and cause his Nobles to take the rest at such rates as the Merchant shall not only bée a sauer but a great gainer thereby The Mogoll lyueth in as great state and pompe as may be deuised both for Maiestie and princely pleasure for hee had brought before him euery day during our abode there 50. Elephants royall clad in cloth of golde and siluer with drums fifes and trumpets whereof some fight one with another wounding one another very deadly and cannot be parted but with Rackets of wilde fier made round like hoopes and so run the same in their faces and some of them fight with wilde horses as one Elephant with 6. horses whereof he hath killed 2. instantly by clasping his trunck about their neckes and so pulling them to him with his teeth breaketh their necks Also there are tame Elephants that will take the viceroyes sonnes being the Kings pages with their truncks gaping as they would eat them and yet verie gently will set them vpon his owne head and hauing sitten there a good space will set them downe againe one their féet as tenderly as a mother would set downe her owne childe doing them no harme at all The Elephant wil not goe out of the sight of his female nor will he be ruled if he doe this I can speake by experience hauing séene triall made thereof Also euery he Elephant hath 3. or 4. females and I saw one that had 4. females and 12. yong ones of his owne begetting There ingendring together is strange for the female lieth downe on her backe and he commeth vpon her and so ingender But if he perceiue any man to beholde or sée him thus ingendring hee will kill him if he can Also the King hath Deare Rammes Ueruathoes or Beazors Lyons Leopards and Wolues that fight before him Also if a Cauilier be condemned for any offence and iudged to die he may by the custom of the Country Craue combate with a Lion for his life which the King denieth to none that crave it as for example I saw one that at the first incounter strooke the Lion with his fist that he felled him but the Lion recouering returned with great furie and violence and caught such hold on him that he rent out his guts with the heart and liuer and so tore him in peeces and this was performed before the King Also there are horses that fight with Allegators or Crocodiles in Tancks or ponds of water where I also saw one Allegator kill 2. stone horses at one time There is also a faire Riuer called Indawe running from thence to Mesopotamia carrieth boats or lighters of 40. tun and is replenished with fish of all sorts Also there are 4. Basars or markets euery day in the weeke and great store of all things to be bought and sold there and at a very reasonable rate As a hen for 2. pence a Turkey for 6. pence a liue deare for a dollar a sheep for 2. shillings a goat for 2. shillings a couple of oxen for 4. dollars being 16. shillings sterling a good hogge for 2. shillings but none buy them but Christians and none sell them but the Bannyans who breed them and as much fish for 3. pence as will serue 5. reasonable men at a meale Also great store of fruit as Limmons Oranges Apricocks Grapes Peares Apples and Plummes But with their grapes they make no wines because their lawes forbid it Also Raisons as great and faire as Raisons of Damasko with great store of cloth of golde veluets and silkes out of Persia and silkes and cloth of gold from Chyna but those are course and lowe prised but abundance are their vended and Captaine Hawkins thinketh that our Richer silkes veluets and such like would be excellent good commodities there But especially our Cloth of light coulors For there is no Cloth but a kind of course Cloth like Cotton which is made at Lyhore and at a Towne called Esmeere and their finest and best is a kind of course red cloth like a Uenice red and this is the vsuall wearing for the chiefest Cau●liers and these are all the places of clothing that I could by any meanes heare of in all that Country The word Mogoll in their language is as much as to say the great white King for he is a white man and of the Race of the Tartares He is King of many Kingdomes and writeth himselfe in his scile Patteshaw Shelham Sho●h that is the King