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A53649	A voyage to Suratt in the year 1689 giving a large account of that city and its inhabitants and of the English factory there : likewise a description of Madiera, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda, and Malemba (upon the coast of by J. Ovington.	Ovington, J. (John), 1653-1731.	1696 (1696)	Wing O701; ESTC R26896	238,999	640

Francis Douee A VOYAGE TO SURATT A VOYAGE TO SURATT In the Year 1689. Giving a large Account of that City and its Inhabitants and of the English Factory there Likewise a Description of Madeira St. Jago Annobon Cabenda and Malemba upon the Coast of Africa St. Helena Johanna Bombay the City of Muscatt and its Inhabitants in Arabia Felix Mocha and other Maritine Towns upon the Red-Sea the Cape of good Hope and the Island Ascention To which is addded an Appendix containing I. The History of a late Revolution in the Kingdom of Golconda II. A description of the Kingdoms of Arracan and Pegu. III. An Account of the Coins of the Kingdoms of India Persia Golconda c. IV. Observations concerning the Silk worms By J. Ovington M. A. Chaplain to his Majesty Qui mores Hominum multorum vidit urbes Horat. Orbesque novos trans aequora pandit Grot. LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Fleet-street near the Inner-Temple-Gate 1696. To his EXCELLENCY CHARLES Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter c. And one of the Lords Justices of England May it please your Excellency AS the Eastern Princes upon the News of any Foreigner's Arrival are wont to expect some Curiosities of the Place from whence he came to prepare the way for his Reception and Introduce the Stranger into their Presence so in imitation of this respectful Custom this Foreign Voyage hopes for admittance to your Favour and Acceptance upon that Stock of Novelty which it presumes upon and which it brings with it as well from Africa as several remoter Parts and Kingdoms of the East For in those Places there are several Things here taken notice of which have escap'd the Observations of other Travellers I need not mention my Lord with what facility you can employ your Judgment to penetrate into all that is any where useful whilst your vigorous Fancy can as readily present to you all that is divertive in its Entertainment And tho' I confess I have very great Reason to dread the strictness of your Censure upon the strength of your admirable Endowments yet methinks I find a relief to this Fear in that Native Candor which so easily tempers the Accuracy of your Thoughts with favourable Constructions But I will not transgress those Measures of Civility of which your EXCELLENCY is so absolute a Master by being too tedious in this Address nor there violate those Decencies and Respects which your Practice recommends so fully to the World and of which none have had more sensible Demonstration than my self Especially considering how much is due to you from the Sacred Order which you treat with that constant uncommon Civility as if you design'd to ballance that Contempt which is too apt to be cast upon it Imitating as in other Perfections so in this too the Ancient Poets who instructed Men in Reverencing not only the Gods but in a due Regard to such as were their immediate Servants and in all things maintaining still that Greatness by your Munificence which you freely part with in your Condescensions I need not determine with how much Reason the Eastern Subjects ascribe this Character to their Emperours That their Royal Condition is owing to their Merits and that they as far transcend other Mortals in those as they do in Power but I am satisfied 't is the unquestionable Loyalty Prudence Greatness of Mind and other Virtues which have justly rais'd you to that Sphere wherein you move kindly influencing the Affairs of this great Kingdom and from whence you look down like the Heavenly Bodies from the highest Orb with a kind and obliging Aspect And that their other Opinion of their Princes That they are the Adopted Sons of Heaven may be your happy Portion too is not more unfeignedly desir'd by any than Your EXCELLENCY's Most Obedient Most Obliged and Devoted Servant J. Ovington TO Mr. J. OVINGTON ON HIS VOYAGE TO SURATT HArd is our Task to Read with fruitless Pain The Dreams of ev'ry Cloyster'd Writers Brain Who yet presume that Truth 's firm Paths they tread When all the while through wild Utopia's led With Faiery-Feasts instead of Science fed As dreaming Wizzards Midnight Journeys take And weary with imagin'd Labour wake So vain is Speculation's fancy'd Flight But search of Nature gives sincere Delight Through her vast Book the World a curious Eye May Wonders in each pregnant Page descry Make new Remarks which Reason may reduce To Humane Benefit and Publick Use Then Happy they who quit their private Home And gen'rously through Foreign Climates roam Who like Ulysses can despise the Toil And make each Land they meet their Native Soil See Men and Manners scarce by Rumour known Visit all Countreys to improve their own But ah how few my Friend with your Design On such Discov'ries bound have cross'd the Line For sordid Gain new Worlds they will descry Seize Nature's Wealth but pass her Wonders by Their Fleet returns opprest with Trafficks Weight But Knowledge makes no part of all the Freight Yet this of Old was Jason's Noble Prize 'T was this that plac'd his Argo in the Skies Experience was the far-fetcht Golden Fleece The Prize so much admir'd by Ancient Greece From whence may be inferr'd what Thanks are due From Britain's Sons Industrious Friend to you Fame shall in State your useful Book Install In Bodley's Pile the Muses Capitol You have so lively your Discoveries Writ We Read and Voyage with you as we sit With you hoise Sail and reach the Indian shore The real Scene cou'd scarce delight us more As when some Prophet from a Trance awakes And to Attentive Crowds Description makes Of Wonders which he did in Rapture view The Listners think they see the Vision too Thus Entertain'd with Nature and with Art We hear your Travels told and well-pleas'd Guests depart N. TATE THE CONTENTS OF THE Principal Places and Things THE Island of Madeira p. 4 The Island of St. Jago 38 The Island of Annobon 54 The Coast of Africa 59 Malemba on the Coast of Africa 73 The Island of St. Helena 89 The Island of Johanna 108 The Island of Bombay 129 The Island of Elephanta 158 Of the Great Mogul 165 The City of Suratt 214 The Moor Inhabitants of Suratt 235 The Bannians at Suratt 275 The Faquires near Suratt 359 The Persies at Suratt 371 The Halalchors at Suratt 382 The English Factory at Suratt 385 The Confinement of the English at Suratt in the Year 1691 1692. 410 Muscatt in Arabia Felix 420 Mocha and other Places on the Red Sea 447 The Cape of Good Hope 479 The Island of Ascention 512 The late Revolution in the Kingdom of Golconda 525 The Kingdom of Arracan 553 The Kingdom of Pegu. 583 The several Coyns in India Persia c. Observations concerning the Nature of the Silk-worms 599 The Reader is desir'd to Correct these Errata following viz. PAge

182. line 25. after the Throne read the Titles of the King of Bisnagar p. 109. l. 9. for gralis r. gratis p. 171. l 8. r. pursue for persue p. 393. l. 11. for place r. plate p. 397. l. 10. for added r. clodded p. 493. l. ult dele of before all A VOYAGE TO SURATT c. ON April the 11th The Ship 's departure from England 1689. the Memorable Day whereon their Majesties King William and Queen Mary were Crown'd did the Ship Benjamin break ground from Gravesend towards her intended Voyage to Suratt in the East Indies Whither she was sent as an Advice-Ship of that wonderful Revolution whereby their Sacred Majesties were peaceably setled in the Throne and had been receiv'd with the Universal Joy of all the Nation In all places where we came we were welcomed with loud and chearful Acclamations and were entertain'd with unusual Congratulations and Respect as happy Messengers of as grateful News as ever arrived in those Parts They were every where truly sensible of their unexpected Deliverance from that Misery and Thraldom which even there threatned them and likewise of the invaluable Blessing of living under a Peaceable Government free from their former Apprehensions either of violence upon their Temporal Enjoyments or disturbance to the Tranquility of their Minds We had not long left the Lands-End of England before we espied a great Fleet of Ships which appear'd to us at a distance like a floating Forest and seiz'd us with no little Consternation Their lying off not far from Brest made us for some time conjecture them to be French till we were happily undeceived by the approach of an English Frigot which discover'd them to be Friends However one of our Company who had faithfully ingaged to stand by us and on whose Assistance we depended without any Ceremony being apprehensive of the danger clapt upon a wind and so left us After this we kept on our course with a favourable Wind till we arrived at Madeira a small Island appertaining to the Crown of Portugal situated about the Two and Thirtieth Degree of Latitude it is in length about Twenty Five Miles about Eight or Ten broad and Sixty in its Circumference THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA The Island of Madeira THis Island as we are inform'd by good Historians was first discover'd by John Gonsalvo and Tristan under the Patronage of Henry Infanto of Portugal But the present Inhabitants give us a different Account of its Discovery viz. That in the Year 1344. an English Gentleman The discovery of this Island by the English having Married a Lady of a considerable Fortune and setting out with her for France from the Port of Bristol was by gusty weather and opposite winds driven into this Island Where upon his Landing finding it a forlorn Place both Uncultivated and Unpeopled he fell into an extream fit of Melancholy and yielding too much to that black Distemper contributed by his own Death to make it still the more desolate The Mariners however who were not so readily dejected at this Misadventure set Sail with their Vessel and landed safely on the Coast of Barbary where after some Refreshment and Respite upon the place they fortunately fell into the Company of some Ingenious Portuguese to whom after a little Conference they Related the Hardships of the Voyage the Situation and Native Pleasantness of the uninhabited but most habitable Island they had left and the just hopes and prospect they had of regaining a sight of it were they but provided with Ships and Men. This excited the Attention of the Portuguese and likewise without much reluctancy procur'd their Promise of endeavouring with their Prince to incline him to hearken to these Proposals and likewise to equip them with Necessaries and Conveniencies for a second Undertaking And succeeding with him according to their wishes they set forward found the Island landed their Men and in a short time converted the Wilderness into a Garden of Pleasure The discovery of this Island by the Portuguese Some say Madeira was discover'd by the Portuguese in Anno 1429. and deriv'd its Name from the abundance of Wood that grew there It was overspread with Wildernesses and plenty of Trees which gave it this Name as with one intire Wood the tedious thoughts of cutting down which perswaded them to a more speedy Method of destroying it by fire After it was kindled the Flames grew to such a head raged so violently and by degrees became so furious that the People were forc'd for their Ease and Preservation to betake themselves to the water to avoid the violence of the heat The reason of the fruitfulness of the Island The remaining Ashes contributed so much to the Fertility of the Ground that it at first produced sixty for one the fruitful Vines brought forth more Grapes than Leaves Clusters of two or three spans length and in all its Products their Beauty and Fertility were so remarkable that it gain'd the Title of the Queen of Islands It s good Air. The Air here to which the Pleasure as well as Health of Humane Life is so much owing is generally very Temperate and undisturbed and the Heavens smiling and serene For those Climates which are placed between the Thirtieth and Fortieth Degrees of Latitude enjoy a Temperature generally very equal and convenient infested neither with the excess of Heat nor rigid Coldness but moderately participating of those troublesome Extreams They seem indisputably to be most suited to the Pleasantness of Humane Life and accommodated to our Constitutions affording that delight to the Body which Virtue imparts to the Mind in avoiding all excesses as dangerous and ungrateful and opposite to the Ease as well of the Sensitive as Intellectual Part. The principal Town is Tunchal or Tonzal some of them term it Funchal The Metropolis from the abundance of Fennel which they say grew there 'T is the sole place of Trade from whence they Export all their Wine and their Sugar which is esteem'd superiour to any in the world The adjacent Rural Places are very Mountainous but however they Rival the Valleys in Fruftfulness and Delight tho both are much fallen from their Primitive Fertility and instead of sixty for one which was the Original Increase The present decay of the Island 's Fertility have gradually descended to twenty five Seven or eight Rivers with variety of Rivulets refresh the place which fall down from the Mountains which notwithstanding their heighth and steepness are Planted and Improv'd as well as the most Champaign ground in England At the utmost top of the high Hills the Corn thrives well but the abundance of Clouds that breed there are prejudicial to the Grapes Four sorts of Grapes that make the Wine The main product of the Island is Grapes brought hither first from Candy of which there are three or four kinds whereof they make their Wine One is coloured like Champaign of little esteem another is

People unwilling to give they audaciously demand and that not in the humble strain for a Pice or two but sawcily beg a Roupie One of these Mendicants in a petulant Humour A Story of a sawcy Faquir impudently requested from an English President whom he met abroad twenty Roupies The President to humour his Forwardness and Impudence offer'd him Nineteen which he magnanimously refused because he thought it unbecoming his Greatness to sink a Farthing below his first demands Of these Imperious Godly Beggars I have seen an hundred at least of them in a Company seated under a shady Grove of Trees rejoycing at a publick Entertainment which was prepar'd by a leading Man of their Company I observ'd that they drunk very freely of Bang steep'd in Water while I stood among them whose Intoxicating quality is very apt to disturb the Brain The Faquirs very orderly at their Feasts Which made me enquire whether such Jovial Meetings were not apt to end in Madness and Quarrels and the Excess of that Liquor by kindling an unruly Heat disturb their Spirits and convert their friendly Meetings into feuds and discords and mischievous Debates To which they answer'd That they took care of preserving Peace and Amity and as much decency and order at these times of Mirth as at their ordinary Meetings for which end they chose a number from among themselves who were totally debarr'd from Drinking and were Censors upon others to inspect their Carriage and interpose in their Disputes to restrain them from all exorbitant Mirth and excessive Drinking The Persies Besides the Moors and the Bannians and these Faquirs which belong to both Professions the Persies are a Sect very considerable in India of whom the Tradition is that coming from Persia in a Tempest at the time that Mahomet and his Followers gave Laws to the Persians which they were unwilling to submit to they were driven to that distress that they almost despair'd of Life 'till hearing a Cock Crow and espying Fire at Land they recover'd their hopes of safety and gain'd a speedy Arrival The Cock therefore is as much esteem'd by them Their Respect to a Cock and to Fire as the Cow is by the Bannians of the lives of both which they are the zealous Patrons and Protectors For the Worshipping of Fire seems to be the Ancientest instance of Idolatry in the World inasmuch as some think that Cain after he was banished from the Presence of the Lord turned a downright Idolater and then introduced the Worship of the Sun as the best resemblance he could find of the Glory of the Lord which was wont to appear in a flaming Light And in after-times they Worshipped Fire in the Eastern Countries as the best Emblem of the Sun when it was absent Nor was the Vestal Fire ever more Sacred than all other Fires are with the Persies the extinction of which if it is voluntary is a Crime as hainous as if the vital Heat of the Cock or some other beloved Animal were destroy'd so that if their Houses were on Fire they would sooner be persuaded to pour on Oyl to increase than Water to asswage the Flame If a Candle is once lighted they would judge the Breath of him more than Pestilential that durst attempt to blow it out And a Persy Servant who is commanded to bring a hot Steel and warm with it a Bowl of Punch will plead his Excuse and that he dare not hasten the coolness of the Steel by a violent abatement of the Heat The active Flame must be allow'd to live whilst there 's any Fuel for it to feed on if the Fire is once kindled all care is taken that it comes to a natural Expiration and no violence allow'd to bring it to a period sooner Another account we have for their respect for Fire is that their great Law-giver Zertoost was taken into Heaven and brought from thence Fire with him Prometheus like which he commanded his Followers afterwards to Worship They have other Fables concerning Abraham that he was once in the Devil's Power who expos'd him to the Flames but the kind Fire would not fasten on him from which they infer the great unreasonableness of destroying that Element which was so averse notwithstanding all its Fury from hurting Abraham their Friend Their days of Devotion the Reason of this may be because that Abraham came from the Land of Vz which signifies Fire which might give the occasion for the Fable of his Escaping the Fire They own and Adore one Supreme Being to whom as he is the Original of all things they dedicate the first Day of every Month in a solemn observance of his Worship And enjoin besides these some others for the Celebration of Publick Prayers At their solemn Festivals whither an hundred or two sometimes resort Eating in common in the Suburbs of the City each Man according to his Fancy and Ability brings with him his Victuals which is equally distributed and eat in common by all that are present For they shew a firm Affection to all of their own Sentiments in Religion assist the Poor and are very ready to provide for the Sustenance and Comfort of such as want it Their universal Kindness either in imploying such as are Needy and able to work The Persies kind to their own Cast or bestowing a seasonable bounteous Charity to such as are Infirm and Miserable leave no Man destitute of Relief nor suffer a Beggar in all their Tribe and herein so far comply with that excellent Rule of Pythagoras to enjoy a kind of Community among Friends Their Transportation to India These Persies are by another Name term'd Gaures or Worshippers of Fire because of their Veneration for that Element and were Transported into India when Calyf Omar reduc'd the Kingdom of Persia under the Power of the Mahometans and they profess the Ancient Religion of the Persians But their Religion spread it self more Westerly it seems than Persia for the Babylonians who by their Religious Discipline were engag'd to the Worshipping the Sun did likewise under the Names of Nego and Shaca Adore the Fire and the Earth And the Parents of Gregory Nazianzene who was born in the Fourth Century at Arianzum an obscure Village belonging to Nazianzum a Town of the second Cappadocia were of a mixt Religion made up of Judaism and Paganism or rather some select Rites of both for with the Gentiles they did honour to Fire and burning Lights but rejected Idols and Sacrifices and with the Jews they observ'd the Sabbath But I believe what remains of this Cast are most of them in the Kingdom of the Great Mogul But we read of some in Persia of great Antiquity For near Yesd in the Province of Ayrack or Hierack Agemi which yields the richest and Fairest Tapestries of all Persia and of the World and on the Mountain Albors there are yet some Worshipers of Fire who are said to have used it above 3000