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A95658	A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. / Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing T782; Thomason E1614_1; ESTC R234725	261,003	580

Caroom raised and kept together very great forces and stood upon his guard and would not disband till his Father had delivered his eldest Son Sultan Coobseroo into his hands and how when he had him in his power he used him you shall after hear In the mean time take one admirable example of a very grosse flatterer but a great favourite of that King who was noted above others of that Nation to be a great neglecter of God believing it Religion enough to please the Mogol his Master This man was a Souldier of an approved valour But upon a time he sitting in dalliance with one of his Women she pluckt an hair from his breast which grew about his Nipple in wantonnesse without the least thought of doing him hurt But the little wound that small and unparalel'd instrument of death made presently began to fester and in short time after became a Canker incureable in fine when he saw that he must needs dye he uttered these words which are worth the remembring of all that shall ever hear them saying VVho would not have thought but that I who have been so long bred a Souldier should have dyed in the face of mine Enemy either by a sword or a Launce or an Arrow or a Bullet or by some such instrument of death But now though too late I am forc'd to confesse that there is a great God above whose Majesty I have ever despised that needs no bigger Launce than an hair to kill an Atheist or a despiser of his Majesty and so desiring that those his last words might be told unto the King his Master died Till sin into the world had made a breach Death was not heard of ever since in each Poor creature may it doth it couchant lye The kernel of a Grape kills one a fly Another choaks by a c●rrupted breath Of air one dies and others have found death In a small bit of meat or by a Corn Too closely cut or by a prick of Thorn When death comes arm'd with Gods imperial word An hair can pierce as deep as sharpest sword The Mogol never advanceth any but he gives him a new name and these of some pretty signification as Pharoah did unto Joseph when he made him great in his Court Gen. 41. 45. the new names I say that the Mogol gives unto those he advanceth and favours are significant As Asaph Chan the gathering or rich Lord whose sister the Mogol married and she was his most beloved wife and her brothers marvelous great riches answered his name for he died worth many Millions as I have been credibly informed the greatest subject I believe for wealth that ever the world had so another of the Mogols Grandees was called Mahobet-Chan the beloved Lord. Another Chan-Jahan the Lord of my heart Another Chan-Allaam the Lord of the world Another Chan-Channa the Lord of Lords He called his chief Physician Mocrob-Chan the Lord of my health and many other names like these his Grandees had which at my being there belonged to his most numerous Court And further for their Titles of honour there all the Kings Children are called Sultans or Princes his daughters Sultanaus or Princesses the next title is Nabob equivalent to a Duke the next Channa a double Lord or Earle The next Chan a Lord. So Meirsa signifies a Knight that hath been a General or Commander in the Wars Umbra a Captain Haddee a Cavalier or Souldier on horse-back who have all allowed them means by the King as before proportionable for the supports of their Honours and Titles and Names His Officers of State are his Treasurers which receive his revenues in his several Provinces and take care for the payment of his great Pensions which when they are due are paid without any delay There his chief Eunuchs which command the rest of them take care for the ordering of his house and are Stewards and Controulers of it his Secretaries the Masters of his Elephants and the Masters of his Tents are other of his great Officers and so are the keepers of his Ward-robe who are entrusted with his Plate and Jewels To these I may add those which take care of his Customs for goods brought into his Empire as for commodities carried thence But these are not many because his Sea-ports are but few The Customs payd in his Ports are not high that strangers of all Nations may have the greater encouragement to Trade there with him but as he expects money from all strangers that Trade there So it is a fault he will not pardon as before for any to carry any quantity of silver thence He hath other Officers that spread over his Empire to exact monies out of all the labours of that people who make the curious manufactures So that like a great Tree he receives nourishment from every even the least Roots that grow under his shadow and therefore though his Pensions are exceeding great as before they are nothing comparable to his enuch greater revenues By reason of that Countries immoderate heat our English Cloath is not fit to make Habits for that people that of it which is sold there is most of it for colour Red this they imploy for the most part to make coverings for their Elephants and Horses to cover their Coaches the King himself taking a very great part thereof whose payments are very good onely the Merchant must get the hands of some of his chief Officers to his bill appointed for such dispatches which are obtained as soon as desired And this the King doth to prevent the abuses of particular and single persons And now that I may present my Reader with the further glory of this great King I shall lead him where he may take a view SECT XXVII Of the Mogols Leskar or Camp Royal c. WHich indeed is very glorious as all must confesse who have seen the infinite number of Tents or Pavilions there pitched together which in a plain make a shew equal to a most spacious and glorious Citie These Tents I say when they are altogether cover such a great quantity of ground that I believe it is five English miles at the least from one side of them to the other very beautifull to behold from some Hill where they may be all seen at once They write of Zerxes that when from such a place he took a view of his very numerous Army consisting at the least of three hundred thousand men he wept saying that in less than the compasse of one hundred years not one of that great mighty Host would be alive And to see such company then together of all sorts of people and I shall give a good reason presently why I believe that mixt company of men women and children may make up such an huge number as before I named if not exceed it and to consider that death will seize upon them all within such a space of time and that the second death hath such a power over them is

carryes death with it At those times to prevent mischief they are kept apart from Company fetterd with strong chaines unto trees but if by chance in their phrensie they get loose as sometimes they do they will make after every thing they see stir in which case they have no means to stop them in their violent course but by firing of Crackers made of Gunpowder whose sparkling and noyse makes them to stand still and tremble When those creatures are in that mad distemper they sweat much which makes their savour exceeding rank and filthy like that ill smel of a Boa● when he is fatting in his Stye but by much more strong and more offensive than that An English Merchant there of good credit upon his own knowledge reported this thing which followes and is very observable of an Elephant in Adsmeer the place then of the Mogols residence who being brought often through the Bazar or Market place a woman who usually sat there to sell herbs was wont to give this great Elephant an handfull as he many times passed by this Elephant after being mad brake his fetters and took his way through that Bazar the people being all of them much affrighted made hast to secure themselves by getting out of his way amongst whom was this herb-woman who for fear and hast forgot her little Child which she had brought thither the Elephant came to the place where this woman usually sate stopt and seeing a little Child lying there about her herbs took it up gently with his Trunk not doing it the least harm and presently after layd it down upon the stall of an house that was hard by and then proceeded on in his furious course Acosta a Jesuit relates the like of an Elephant in Goa from his own experience The Elephant though he be vast and terrible yea and cruell too when he is set to do mischief or when he is mad yet otherwise is a tame gentle Creature so that the dread of this huge beast most appears to the eyes But notwithstanding his terribleness I once there saw a Creature compared with an Elephant not much bigger than a small Fish compared with a Whale boldly to encounter one of them The occasion by which this so came to pass offers it self thus that year I went for East-India the Merchants here as from the King of England in whose name they sent all their presents amongst many other things then sent the Mogol some great English Mastives and some large Irish Greyhounds in all to the number of eight dispersed in our severall ships one of those high spirited Mastives in our voyage thither upon a day seeing a great Shoale or company of Porpisces before described mounting up above the waves and coming toward that ship wherein he was suddenly lept over-board to encounter with them before any did take notice of that fierce creature to prevent that engagement wherein he was irrecoverably lost the ship then having such a fresh gale of winde that she could not suddenly slack her course whereby that poor creature might have been preserved Another one of the Irish Greyhounds had his head shot off in our fight The Mange was the destruction of four more of them only two of the Mastives came alive to East-India and they were carried up each of them drawn in a little Coach when I went up to the Embassador that he might present them to the Mogol The fiercest of these two in our way thither upon a time breaking loose fell upon a very large Elephant that was hard by us fastning his teeth in the Elephants Trunk and kept his hold there a good while which made that huge beast extremely to roare and though the Elephant did swing the Mastive up and down above ground many times as not feeling his weight that he might throw him off yet he could not suddenly do it but at last freeing himself from the dog by throwing him a good space from him the●e came a Mungrill Curr of that Countrey towards our Mastive who then lost this his most unequal match fell upon that dog and kild him by which means we recovered our Mastive again into our custody he having not received any apparent hurts by which we may see how much Courage and Mettle there is in those right fierce Mastives This storie pleased the Mogol very much when the dogs were presented to him and he allowed each of them four attendants of those Natives to wait upon them who by turnes two and two together carried them up and down with him in Palankees after described to which they were tyed and the other two went by them fanning the flyes from off them and the King caused a pair of silver ●ongs to be made on purpose that with them when he pleased he might feed those dogs with his own hand But this story by the way The Mogol hath many of his great Elephants train'd up for the war who carry each of them one iron gun about five foot long lying upon a strong frame of wood made square that is fitted to a thick broad Pannel fastned about him with very strong and broad Girses or Girts The gun like an Harquebush hath a peece of iron like a Musket-rest fastned on the sides thereof made loose to play up and down The bottome of that Iron Rest so fixed is long to be let through that frame of wood on the foreside and so to be keyed in at the bottom At the four corners of this frame are small flags of silk with sundry devices painted on them put upon little neat coloured staves upon the neck of the Elephant sits a man to guide him and within the frame a Gunner to make his shot as he finds occasion The peece thus mounted carrves a bullet about the bigness of a Tennis Ball. Some Elephants the King keeps for the execution of Malefactors the manner how followes in Section 23. And some he keeps to carry himself and women and some Elephants are kept for State of which more when I shall come to speak more particularly of the great Mogol Other Elephants are there imployed for the carrying of burdens their strength being so great as that they will bear a marvailous weight The Elephants are all governed with a small rod of steel about half a yard long made sharp on the lower end and towards that end there is an hook returned life a fish-hook that is very sharp likewise by which their Riders sitting on their necks pull them back or prick them forward at their pleasure These vast Creatures though the Countrey be exceeding fruitfull and all provisions in it cheap yet by reason of their huge bulk if they be well kept and fed are very chargeable in keeping they are kept usually under the shade of great trees where by a strong chain of iron upon one of their hinde leggs they fasten them And as they stand the abundance of flyes vex them and therefore with their fore-feet they make dust the

poor thing indeed which is freely given and is not worth the taking The Mogol sometimes by his Firmauns or or Letters Patents will grant some particular things unto single or divers persons and presently after will contradict those Grants by other Letters excusing himself thus that he is a great and an absolute King and therefore must not be tied unto any thing which if he were he said that he was a slave and not a free man Ye what he promised was usually enjoyed although he would not be tied to a certain performance of his promise Therefore there can be no dealing with this King upon very sure terms who will say and unsay promise and deny Yet we English men did not at all suffer by that inconstancy of his but there found a free Trade a peaceable residence and a very good esteem with that King and people and much the better as I conceive by reason of the prudence of my Lord Ambassadour who was there in some sense like Joseph in the Court of Pharoah for whose sake all his Nation there seemed to fare the better And we had a very easie way upon any grievance to repair to that King as will appear now in my next Section which speaks SECT XXIV Of him shewing himself three times publickly unto his people every day and in what state and glory he doth oftentimes appear FIrst early in the morning at that very time the Sun begins to appear above the Horizon He appears unto his people in a place very like unto one of our Balconies made in his houses or Pavilions for his morning appearance directly opposite to the East about seven or eight foot high from the ground against which time a very great number of his people especially of the greater sort who desire as of●en as they can to appear in his eye assemble there together to give him the Salam or good morning crying all out as soon as they see their King with a loud voice Padsha Salamet which signifies live ô Great King or O great King health and life as all the people cried 1 King 1. 39. God save King Solomon and thus they clapped their hands for joy when Jehoash was made King crying God save the King or let the King live 2 King 11. 12. At noon he shews himself in another place like the former on the South-side and a little before Sun-set in a like place on the West-side of his house or Tent but as soon as the Sun forsakes the Hemisphear he leaves his people ushered in and out with Drums and Winde instruments and the peoples acclamations At both which times likewise very great numbers of his people assemble together to present themselves before him And at any of these three times he that hath a suite to the King or desires Justice at his hands be he poor or Rich if he hold up a Petition to be seen shall be heard and answered And between seven and nine of the Clock at night he sits within his House or Tent more privately in a spacious place called his Goozalcan or bathing house made bright like day by abundance of lights and here the King sits mounted upon a stately Throne where his Nobles and such as are favoured by him stand about him others finde admittance to but by special leave from his Guard who cause every one that enters that place to breath upon them and if they imagine that any have drunk wine they keep him out At this time my Lord Ambassadour made his usual addresses to him and I often waited on him thither and it was a good time to do businesse with that King who then was for the most part very pleasant and full of talk unto those which were round about him and so continued till he fell a sleep oft times by drinking and then all assembled immediately quitted the place besides those which were his trusted servants who by turns watched his Person The Mogol hath a most stately rich and spacious house at Agrae his Metropolis or chief Citie which is called his Palace Royal wherein there are two Towers or Turrets about ten foot square covered with massie God as ours are usualy with Lead this I had from Tom. Coriat as from other English Merchants who keep in a Factory at that place And further they told me that he hath a most glorious Throne within that his Palace ascended by divers steps which are covered with plate of silver upon the top of which ascent stand four Lions upon pedestals of curiously coloured Marble which Lions are all made of Massie silver some part of them guilded with Gold and beset with precious stones Those Lions support a Canopy of pure Gold under which the Mogol sits when as he appears in his greatest state and glory For the beauty of that Court it consists not in gay and Gorgious apparel for the Countrey is so hot that they cannot endure any thing that is very warm or massie or rich about them The Mogol himself for the most part is covered with a garment as before described made of pure white and fine Callico Laune and so are his Nobles which Garments are washed after one dayes wearing But for the Mogol though his cloathing be not rich and costly yet I believe that there is never a Monarch in the whole world that is dayly adorned with so many Jewels as himself is Now they are Jewels which make mens covering most rich such as people in other parts sometimes wear about them that are otherwise most meanly habited to which purpose I was long since told by a Gentleman of honour sent as a Companion to the old Earle of Nothingham when he was imployed as an extraordinary Ambassadour by King James to confirm the peace made 'twixt himself and the King of Spain which Ambassadour had a very great many Gentlemen in his train in as Rich cloathing as Velvets and Silks could make but then there did appear many a great Don or Grandee in the Spanish Court in a long black bayes Cloak and Cassack which had one Hatband of Diamonds which was of more worth by far than all the bravery of the Ambassadours many followers But for the Mogol I wonder not at his many Jewels he being as I conceive the greatest and richest Master of precious stones that inhabites the whole earth For Diamonds which of all other are accounted most precious stones they are found in Decan where the Rocks are out of which they are digged the Princes whereof are the next Neighbours and Tributares to the great Mogol and they pay him as Tribute many Diamonds yearly and further he hath the refusal of all those rich stones they sell he having Gold and Silver in the greatest abundance and that will purchase any thing but heaven and he will part with any mony for any Gems beside that are precious and great whither Rubies or any other stones of value as also for rich Pearls And his Grandees follow him in that