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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

A TRVE AND ALMOST INCREdible report of an Englishman that being cast away in the good Ship call the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies Trauelled by Land through many vnkowne 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 season of the yeere they are most in vse Faithfully related WITH A DISCOVERY OF A GREAT Emperour called the Great Mogull a Prince not till now knowne to our English Nation By Captaine Robert Couerte LONDON Printed by WILLIAM HALL for Thomas Archer and Richard Redmer 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROBERT EARLE OF SALISBVRY KNIGHT OF THE MOST HOnourable Order of the Garter Vicount Cranborne Lord CECIL of Essindon Lord high TREASVRER of England Chancellour of the Vniuersity of Cambridge and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell AS the most noble Maecenas of all good Arts the most worthy Patron of all such as can any way merit of their Countrey I haue elected you Right Honourable Lord to whom I haue presumed encouraged by your known grace and Clemency to Dedicate these my tedious and dangerous Trauels In which your Honour shall finde vndoubtedly all truth and some nouelty If after your more weighty and serious Considerations you will daine the perusall of this my rude and vnpolisht discourse For being shipwrackt in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies and not dispairing in the power of the Almighty of my safe returne to my Countrey Leauing the rest to the number of 75. that would not hazard so desperate and vnexpected an vndertaking I aduentured to passe thorow many vnknown Kingdomes and Cities ouer Land of all which I haue to my plain vnderstanding made a particular and ●aithfull discouery Protesting to your Honor that in all my trauels and almost incredible dangers I haue heere exprest no more then I haue directly seen and to my great sufferance and difficultie prooued Pardon I intreat your Lordship this my presumption in selecting you the noble and worthy Patron to so rude a discourse whose simplenesse is onely excused in the Truth That granted I shall thinke my selfe most comforted after al my precedent Hazards that your Honor will but daine to accept of this report Your Lordships Humbly deuoted Robert Couerte To the Reader REceiue Courteous Reader a true report of my dangerous Trauels which will I make no question be as pleasing to thee in reading as they were painefull to me in suffering Heere thou maiest safely and without danger see that which hath cost me many a tedious and weary step many a cold and comfortlesse lodging and many a thin and hungry meale I publish not these my Aduentures in any pride or Arrogancie But I thinke I should prooue ingratefull to my preseruer not to let the world know his miraculous power in safegarding me beyond mine owne hope or mans Imagination The report of these my perils are freely thine mine hath onely been the dangers and sufferance Bee thou as well pleased with my faithfull discouery as I am contented with my hard and paineful Pilgrimage Thine ROBERT COVER●● A TRVE AND ALmost incredible report of an Englishman that being cast away in the ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies Trauelled by Land through many vnknown Kingdomes and great CITIES THe 14. day of March 1607. wée came into the Downes and there ancored against Deale about 3. miles from Sandwich where we staied vntill the 25. day of the same moneth being by computation the first day of the yéere 1608. vpon which day about foure of the clock in the morning we waighed ancor and past by Douer betwéene thrée and foure of the clocke in the afternoone without any staying but giuing them notice with 3. peeces of Ordinance of our passing by and so passed forwards some thrée leagues and then by a contrary winde we were driuen backe againe into Douer roade where we ancored and staied till fiue of the clocke in the morning being the twenty sixe day of March. and then weighing ancor we sailed some thrée leagues when the winde contrarying constrained vs againe to cast ancor vntill the 27. day in the morning about seuen or eight of the clocke and then hauing a faire gale of winde we sailed to Plimouth where we arriued the 29. day between tenne and eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone where we staied till the thirtie one day of March. And then hauing a faire gale of winde wee waighed ancor and sailed vntill wee came in sight of an Iland called the Saluages on Sunday being the tenth day of Aprill being about fiue hundred leagues from Plimouth and still sailed forwards vntill the next morning that we came within sight of the grand Canaries which belong to the Spaniard And vpon the twelfth day of Aprill about eight or nine of the clocke in the night we ancored and discharged a peece of Ordinance for a boat to come aboard but to no effect For before our ariuall in the road there was a rumor of twelue saile of Flemmings that were cōming that way to no good intent as the Spaniards afterward told vs to be some of those Flemmings that had ouerrunne the rest where upon they sent vp into the Countrey for one hundred and fifty horse and foot or more for their defence and safegard if néede should be nor would they be peswaded to the contrarie vntill two of our Factors went on shore and fully satisfied them in any thing they demanded or doubted and that our intent was only to make prouision for such things as we wanted and the next morning as the manner there is we discharged another péece of Ordinance And then the Gouernour of the Towne sent a boat to know what we craued whereupon we certified them of our wants and they told vs they would giue the Gouernour intelligence and returne vs an answere which was that vnlesse wee came into the road it was beyond his Commission to releeue vs yet hauing first sworne and examined our Factors and so knowing the truth of our intended voiage they gaue them a warrant to take a boat to come aboard at their pleasures with licence to supply our wants if they had any thing that might content vs. Yet one thing aboue the rest made vs much to maruell which was two English ships which wee perceiued and knew by their flagges being in the road who had not so much kindnesse in them as to giue vs notice of the custome or manners of these subtill and currish people And of this doubt wee were also resolued that no man whatsoeuer being once within their Dominions may come aboard any ship that shall arriue there and lie out of the roade although they be of their owne Nation without their Gouernors and Councels permittance or licence At our being there some of them came aboard of vs euery day

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