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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

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

This Letter was sent by a faithful Servant of Aureng-Zebe's into his Sons Camp who pretended to come from him to his Father but was there stopp'd and the Letter open'd and read and the Resbouts upon it were so inrag'd that all the Protestations Cha-Egber could make were impossible to appease them or perswade their Engagement of themselves any longer in his Service Some therefore left him and others refused to advance a step forwards 'till Aureng-Zebe had time given him to unite his strength and muster his Forces whereby he vanquisht the Enemy and forc'd his Son to a speedy flight In this disgrace and haste he fled to Persia where he was honourably entertain'd by that Emperour Cha-Egber's flight to Persia with all those Lords that attended his Flight and is since married at that Court to the Emperour's Daughter He daily waits for some favourable Revolution when he may return to India again whither he hopes to be recall'd by his Father's death and with the powerful Alliance and Aid of Persia and the united Interest of his Friends in India he expects to gain the Crown he unfortunately lost and establish his glory in that Kingdom to which he is now forced to continue on Exile Whenever the Indian Emperour is proclaim'd 't is with Publick Jubilee Great Rejoycing at the Proclaiming of the Emperour with Songs and Musick Mirth and Revellings with Fireworks and gawdy Shows in all parts of the Kingdom on this day their Ships hang out their Flags and Ensigns and expose their Pendants not only at the Top-mast-head but deck the Shrowds with ten or twenty more The Crown he wears is of invaluable price and the Throne he ascends is reckon'd at 300 Lack of Roupies Each Lack is one hundred thousand Roupies which with us is 11250 l. Sterling reckoning a Roupie at 2 s. 3 d. Neither are these Solemnities observ'd upon an Anniversary day only according to European Customs but in Cities Garrisons and places of note it obtains a weekly Celebration not with extraordinary Illuminations and publick joyful Feasts but with something of Mirth and Musick more than usual Sunday is the day of the Inauguration of the present Mogul and solemnized with the Musick of the Trumpets at Suratt in the Castle there I wisht when first I saw it that they had converted the Civil into a Religious observation of that day There is another day in India as well as England The 5th of November remarkable in India which is eminently remarkable the 5th of November This day the great Mogul is weighed and if it 's found that he has increas'd in bulk above what he weighed the preceding Year The Weighing of the Mogul this adds excess of Mirth and Joy to the Solemnity but if he prove lighter in the Scales this diminishes their Triumphs and damps their chearful Entertainments The Grandees and Officers of State prepare for this Feast two Months before its approach what costly Jewels and curious Rarities they can any where meet with which they present to the Emperour at this Ceremony either to secure his Favour or to ingratiate with him for a more exalted station or Honourable Employ The Moguls are sometimes weighed against Silver which has been distributed to the Poor When any Indian Subject stands so fair in the Eye of his Prince New names given by the Mogul to his Subjects as to be raised to some advanc'd degree of Trust or Honour he acquires at the same time a new Name according to the Prince's Fancy according to what we read in Dan. 1.7 Thus the preceding Governour of Suratt was named Muck Teer Chan i. e. Lord after my own Heart the present is stiled Anamat Chan or Conscientious Lord because of his Fidelity and Integrity For all the Lands of Indoston belonging intirely to the Mogul the Omrahs there cannot derive their Titles from their Earldoms Lordships or Mansion-Houses as with us because they are none of their Propriety only Tenants at will during the Mogul's pleasure and therefore the Mogul confers upon them such Names of Dignity as by their personal Conduct or Accomplishment he thinks they merit And as he bestows Titles proper to his Generals of Invincible or Victorious so to his Nabobs or Governours he bethinks himself of Names suitable to their Stations or his Opinion of their Excellencies and Endowments This is a common thing practis'd likewise in other Kingdoms of the East The King of Siam's Name conceal'd as at Siam the King there gives Names not only to his Domesticks and Mandarins or Nobles but to his very Elephants Tho his own Name is industriously conceal'd lest his Enemies by some Enchantment might work upon it Thus Pharaoh called Joseph's Name Zaphnath-Paaneah Gen. 41.45 and Job called his Eldest Daughter Jemimah i. e. clear as the Day The 2d Keziah i. e. Pleasant as Cassia or sweet Spice The 3d. Keren-happuck that is Horn or strength of Beauty The dependance upon the Prince's Favour makes Obsequiousness fashionable The flattery of the Eastern Subjects and Flattery practis'd in all the Courts of the East So that tho' they require an account of their Affairs and expect to be informed yet they think it a diminution to their Grandeur to be acquainted with any thing that may disgust or told any thing that looks displeasing Except among the Chinese with whom the liberty of Admonishing their Emperour was established by a Law The freedom used by the K. of China's Subjects with him which impowred them to use importunate Applications to him upon any failure and caus'd them instantly to remind him of taking care of his Life and Actions and that the virtuous Pattern of his Royal Behaviour was the best and only method for deriving Justice Integrity and Loyalty upon his Magistrates and People They likewise admonished him that if he deviated from the transcendant Virtues of his Ancestors his Subjects would inevitably digress from their Duties of Allegiance and Fidelity to him For it is a receiv'd Maxim among those People That the Subjects are like Ears of Corn wherewith a Field is cover'd and the Morals of their Emperour are like a Wind which inclines them which way it pleaseth But the Indian Emperours are incontroulable in what they say as well as in their Actions so far that it is an allowed Maxim in this Court Court Flattery That if they say at Noon-day it is Night you are to answer Behold the Moon and the Stars This flattery of their Subjects has made them fancy themselves more than Demi-Gods and vaunt themselves in the most exorbitant swelling Titles Thus the Emperour of Japan calls himself Son of the Sun Proud Titles of the Eastern Kings and for this Reason when the Imperial Diadem is upon his Head will never after appear in the sight of the Moon for fear of debasing his Gratness and because he thinks it would Eclipse his Glory Thus the present Mogul's Father stiled himself Cha-Jehan i. e.