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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

extend themselves to such an incredible breadth they growing round every way as that hundreds of men may shade themselves under one of them at any time the rather because these as all other Trees in those Southern parts of East-India as particularly I observed before still keep on their green Coats For their Flowers they are for the generality like unto painted Weeds which though their colour be excellent they rather delight the eye than affect the smell for not many of them except Roses and some few kinds more are any whit fragrant Amongst them that are there is one white Flower like to Spanish Jessamin if it be not the same which is exceedingly well sented of which they make a most excellent pure sweet Oyl with which they anoynt their heads and other parts of their bodies which makes the company of those that do so very savoury and sweet This Empire is watered with many goodly Rivers as they are expressed in the Map the two principal are Indus and Ganges where this thing is very observable for they say there that it is very true that one pint of the water of Ganges weigheth less by one ounce than any other water in that whole great Monarchy And therefore they say that the Mogol wheresoever he is hath water brought him from that River that he may drink thereof by some appointed for that service who are continually either going to it or coming from it The water is brought unto the King in fine Copper Jars excellently well tin'd on the inside and sealed up when they are delivered to the Water-bearers for the King's use two of which Jars every one carries hanging upon Slings fitted for the Porter's shoulders Besides their Rivers they have store of Wels fed with Springs and to these they have many Ponds which they call Tanques some of them exceeding large fill'd with water when that abundance of Rain fals of which more hereafter That most antient and innocent Drink of the World Water is the common drink of East-India it is far more pleasant and sweet than our water and must needs be so because in all hot Countries it is more rarified better digested and freed from its rawne●s by the heat of the Sun and therefore in those parts it is more desired of all that come thither though they never made it their drink before than any other liquor and agreeth better with mens bodies Sometimes we boyl the water there with some wholsome seeds and after drink it cold and then it is by much more cold after an heat Like unto some men who have shewed formerly much zeal and heat for good and afterward become more chill and cold than ever they were before Sometimes we mingle our water there with the juice of Limons and Sugar which makes an exceeding pleasant drink which we call there Sherbet Some small quantity of Wine but not common is made amongst them they call it Ra●k distilled from Sugar and a spicy rinde of a Tree called Jagra it is very wholsome if taken very moderately Many of the people there who are strict in their Religion drink no Wine at all but they use a Liquor more wholsome than pleasant they call Coffee made by a black seed boyled in water which turns it almost into the same colour but doth very little alter the tast of the water notwithstanding it is very good to help digestion to quicken the spirits and to cleanse the blood There is yet another help for those that forbear Wine by an Herb they have called Beetle or Paune in shape somewhat like an Ivy-leaf but more tender they chew it with an hard Nut somewhat like a Nutmeg but not in tast like that and a very little pure white-lime amongst the leaves and when they have sucked down the juice put forth the rest It hath as they say and I believe very much of it many rare qualities for it preserves the Teeth strengthens the Stomack comforts the Brain and it cures or prevents a tainted Breath This I am sure of that such is the pleasing smell of this Beetle being chewed in a close room that the breath of him so chewing it fils it with a very pleasing savour This Empire further affords very excellent good Horse curiously made high mettled and well managed by the Natives Besides their own they have many of the Persian Tartarian and Arabian breed which have the name to be the choyce ones of the World But of these more when I come to speak of the Inhabitants Here are a great number of Camels Dromedaries Mules and Asses imployed for the carriage of burthens or the carrying of the people to which use also they employ many of their Oxen and their Buffeloes likewise which before I spake of The Camels as I oft observed there have one strange quality who cry and make a very piteous noyse at night when they take off their burthens but in the morning when they are laid on the poor Creatures are very still and quiet making no noyse at all Many wicked men who are most fitly called by the Psalmist the Beasts of the people P●al 68. ●0 for so it is in the Vulgar Translation Beast● for want of Reason and for not using Reason well worse than Brutes may be most fitly resembled by those dull Camels who being burthen'd and clogg'd with a great load of sin already enough to press them down into that bottomless pit seem to feel nothing nor to complain at all but with much quiet and content keep on their burthens and take up more still as if that wickedness which the Prophet Zachary 5. 7. compares to a Talent of Lead were as light as a Feather But when we go about by our Exhortations Intreaties Perswasions of them and by the strongest Arguments besides we can invent press them to suffer God through Christ Jesus to save their souls and consequently to get themselves freed from that most intollerable burthen which will unavoydably sink them into Hell at last if they be not freed from it then these like those stupid Creatures cry and complain and seem to be much disquieted as if we did them much wrong while we labour to do them the greatest right The reason is because their Pride as every beloved sin besides compasseth them as a Chain Psal 73. 6. it is their Jewel their Ornament as they think and therefore they will keep it they will not part from it though it be their greatest shame because they esteem it their chiefest Glory I would intreat my Reader when he comes to this digression to read it over and over again The Dromedary is called by the Prophet Jeremy 2. 23. the swift Dromedary the reason may be because these like the Camels have very long legs and consequently make long steps and so travelling rid ground apace or because at a pinch or time of need they will carry a man exceeding far without rest and but with a very little food They have some Rhynocerots

former very large and great but better to look upon than to taste they usually appear at Sea in very great sholes or companies and are as if they came of the race of the Gadaren Swine that ran violently into the Sea very swift in their motion and like a company matching in rank and file They leap or mount very nimbly over th● waves and so down and up again making a melancholy noyse when they are above the water These are usually when they thus appear certain presagers of very foul weather The Flying fishes have skinny wings like unto Batts but larger they are stifned and strengthned with many little bones such as are in the back finns of Pearches by which they fly but a little way at a time they have small bodyes like unto Pilchers and appear when they fly in marvellous great companies and some of them often fly into our ships by which we have tasted that they are excellent good fish Of all other these flying Fishes live the most miserable lives for being in the water the Dolphins Bonitoes Albicores and Porpisces chase persecute and take them and when they would escape by their flight are oftentimes caught by ravenous Fowls somewhat like our Kites which hover over the water These flying Fishes are like men professing two trades and thrive at neither I could further enlarge but my business is not to write an History of Fishes yet in those wee have named as in thousands more which inhabite that watery Main I desire with David to admire and say O Lord how manifold are thy works manifold and wonderfull indeed as he that will take notice many observe every where but in a speciall manner because they are more rare in the great varietie of strange Creatures which the Sea that womb of moysture brings forth in which many things we behold are wonderfull and many things besides we cannot see are certainly more full of wonder In which unfadom'd water y deep Creatures innumerable keep Some small some great among the waves As if they liv'd in moving graves Through which the ships doe plow their way In which the Whales doe sport and play Psal 104. 24 25 26. But to proceed on our Voyage the 12. of June early in the morning we espied our long-wished for harbour the Bay of Souldania about twelve leagues short of the Cape of good Hope where we came happily to an Ankor that forenoon In which Bay we found a Dutch-ship bound for Bantam which had taken in her course and brought thither a small Portugal bound to Angola a Colonie belonging to the Portugals lying in the skirts of Africa about ten degrees South of the Line in which small ship amongst many rich Commodities as we heard to the value of five or six thousand pounds sterling there were ten Portugal Virgins as they call'd themselves sent to that Colonie I suppose for Husbands The young women were well-favoured and well clad in silks but such were the courtesies of these Dutch-men towards them as that they took not only away all the goods Artilerie and good provisions of their ship but they rob'd these poor captive Maidens of all their apparell which they most sadly complained of to one poor suit and I suppose of their honour too if they brought it with them then giving them water for their wine and a very scant proportion of all other provisions turn'd them with their unarm'd leakie and ill-man'd ship to the mercy of the Seas the twentieth day following This Bay of Souldania lyeth in 34 degrees and half of South Latitude in a sweet Climate full of fragrant herbs which the soyl produceth of its self pleasing to the sense where our ships companies when they have often-times there arrived with very weak and feeble bodies usually by that Sea disease the Scurvy in which disease I shall observe by the way if any that have it be not too much overgone with it assoon as hee comes to enjoy the fresh ayr on any shore with fresh water and fresh food he will presently recover but if this disease have over-much prevailed on him immediatly after he sets his foot on shore he usually dies I say our people when they have come hither with very crazie bodies have often found here much good refreshing for besides a most delectable brook of pure good water arising hard by out of a mighty hill call'd for its form the Table close by which there is another Hill which ariseth exceeding high like a Pyramis and called by Passengers the Sugar-loaf there are good store of Cattell as little Beeves called by the barbarous Inhabitants Boos and Sheep which they call Baas who bear a short coarse hairie wooll and I conceive are never shorn These Boos and Baas as they call them were formerly bought in great plenty for small quantities of Kettle-brasse and Iron Hoops taken off our Empty Cask which are all for this long voyage hoop'd with Iron These Salvages had their cattell which we bought of them at a very great Command for with a call they would presently run to them and when they had sold any one of their bullooks to us for a little inconsiderate peece of brasse if we did not presently knock him down they would by the same call make the poor creature break from us and run unto them again and then there was no getting them out of their hands but by giving them more brasse and by this trick now and then they sold the same beast unto us two or three times and if they had thus sold him more often he had been a good penny worth how ever in this wee might observe the covetousness and deceit of this brutish people Here yee must know that this people of all metals seem to love brasse I think as you may ghesse afterward for the ranknesse of its smell with which they make great rings to wear about their wrists yea so taken are they with this base metall that if a man lay down before them a peece of gold worth two pounds sterling and a peece of brasse worth two pence they will leave the Gold and take the brasse On this shore there likewise are found excellent good though small roots for Salads which the soyl brings forth without husbanding And in the head of the Bay may be taken with netts great store of fayr fat Mullets of which we took abundance This remotest part of Africa is very mountainous over-run with wild beasts as Lions Tygres Wolves and many other beasts of prey which in the silent night discover themselves by their noyse and roaring to the Teeth and Jawes of which cruell Beasts the Natives here expose their old people if death prevent it not when once they grow very old and troublesome laying them forth in some open place in the dark night When the wild beasts as David observes Psal 104. 20 21. doe creep forth and the young lyons roar after their prey One miserable poor old wretch was thus

first day of his comming thither found a way to an Armenian Christians house who sold wine in that place they call Armenian Wine But by the way I do believe that there was scarce another in that populous City of that trade the greater shame for those whosoever they be that suffer so many unnecessary tipling-houses in the places where they have power to restrain them which are the Devills nursery the very Tents wherein Sathan dwells where Almighty God receives abundance of dishonour drun keness being a sin which hath hands and fingers to draw all other sins unto it For a drunkard can do any thing or be any thing but good That Armenian Wine I speak of is made of Reysons of the Sun and Sugar with some other things pur and boyled in water which Wine when it is ripe and cleer is in Colour like to our Muscadels pleasant enough to the tast but heavy and heady The Cook had his head quickly over-freighted with it and then staggering homeward in his way met the Governors Brother of Surat as he was riding to his house the Cook made a stand staying himself up upon his sword scabbard and cry'd out to the Governours Brother Now thou Heathen dog He not understanding his foul language replyed civilly in his own Ca-ca-ta which signifies what sayest thou the Cook answered him with his sword and scabbard with which he strook at at him but vvas immediatly seised on by his follovvers and by them disarm'd and carried to Prison the Ambassadour had present intelligence of the misbehaviour of his drunken servant and immediatly sent vvord unto the Governours Brother that he vvas not come thither to patronize any disorderly person and therefore desir'd him to do vvith him what he pleased upon which he presently sent him home not doing him the least hurt But before I leave this storie it will not be amiss to enquire who was the Heathen dog at this time whether the debaucht drunken Cook who call'd himself a Christian or that sober and temperate Mahometan who was thus affronted In our journey towards the Court after we had been in our way about seven dayes from Surat we rested at a place called Ditat where many of the Inhabitants offered to guard us and our goods though we observing there no danger desired it not but they would do it and in the morning expected and asked something of us by way of recompence One of our Company who had been in East India a year or two before told them that what they had done they did without ou● desire and therefore they should have nothing from us but some ill language which he then gave them We set forward in the morning according to our wonted custom they followed after us to the number at the least of three hundred men for the place was great and populous and when we were gone about a mile from that Town stopped our carriages he of our Company who told them they should have no recompence was presently ready to shoot at them with his Musket which made them all to bend their Bowes at us but I happily and suddenly stepping in prevented his firing at them and their shooting at us which if I had not by Gods good Providence done but we had madly engaged such a great multitude there could not have been less expected in the sad issue thereof than the loss of all our lives and goods but having a little Parlee with them for the value of three shillings of English money given amongst them they were all quieted and contented and immediatly left us wishing us a good journey After this when we had gone forward about twenty dayes journey which daily remooves were but short by reason of our heavy carriages and the heat of the weather it happened that another of our Company a young Gentleman about twenty years old the Brother of a Baron of England behaved himself so ill as that we feared it would have brought very much mischief on us This young man being very unruly at home and so many others that have been well born when their friends knew not what to do with them have been sent to East India that so they might make their own Graves in the Sea in their passage thither or els have Graves made for them on the Indian shore when they come there A very cleanly conveyance but how just and honest I leave to others for Parents to be rid of their unruly Children but I never knew any who were thus supposed to be sent thither but they outlived that voyage For the young Gentleman I spake of his imployment was to wait upon our chief Commander in his Cabin who very courteously when he came to Sea turn'd him before the mast amongst the common saylors a great preferment for a man of his birth but for all this he outliv'd that harsh usage and came safely to East India and my Lord Ambassadour hearing of him and being well acquainted with his great kindred sent for him up to the Court and there entertain'd him as a Companion for a year then giving him all fit accommodations sent him home again as a passenger for England where after he safely arrived But in our way towards that Court it thus happened that this hot-brains being a little behind us commanded him then neer him who was the Princes servant before spoken of to hold his horse the man replyed that he was none of his servant and would not do it Upon which this most intemperate mad youth who was like Philocles that angry Poet and therefore called Bilis Salsigo Choler and Brine for he was the most hasty and cholerick young man that ever I knew as will appear by his present carriage which was thus first he beat that stranger for refusing to hold his horse with his horse-whip which I must tell you that people cannot endure as if those whips stung worse than Scopions For of any punishments that carry most disgrace in them as that people think one is to be beaten with that whip where with all they strike their beasts the other to be beaten and this they esteem the more disgracefull punishment of the two about the head with shooes But this stranger being whipt as before came up and complained to me but to make him amends that frantick young man mad with rage and he knew not wherefore presently followed him and being come up close to him discharg'd his Pistol laden with a brace of bullets directly at his body which bullets by the special guidance of the hand of God so flew that they did the poor man no great hurt only one of them first tearing his coat brused all the knucles of his left hand and the other brake his bow which he carried in the same hand We presently disarmed our young B●dlam till he might return again to his witts But our greatest business was how to pacifie the other man whom he had thus injured I presently gave him

a thing of more sad consideration Now to make it appear that the number of people of all sorts is so exceeding great which here get and keep together in the Mogols Leskar or Camp Royal first there are one hundred thousand Souldiers which alwayes wait about that King as before observed and all his Grandees have a very great train of followers and servants to attend them there and so have all other men according to their several qualities and all these carry their Wives and Children and whole family with them which must needs amount to a very exceeding great number And further to demonstrate this when that King removes from one place to another for the space of twelve hours a broad passage is continually fill'd with passengers and Elephants and Horses and Dromedaries and Camels and Coaches and Asses and Oxen on which the meaner sort of men and women with their little Children ride so full as they may well passe one by the other Now in such a broad passage and in such a long time a very great number of people the company continually moving on forward may passe Thus this people moving on from place to place it may be said of them what Salvian speaks of Israel while they were in their journey to the land of promise that it was Ambulans respublica a walking Common-wealth And therefore that ancient people of God were called Hebrews which signified passengers and their dwelling so in Tents signified thus much to all the people of God in all succeeding ages that here they dwell in moveable habitations having no continuing City here but they must look for one and that is above It is observed of Cain that he a wicked man was a tiller of the ground though that calling of it self deserves much commendation or as a man fastned to the earth whereas Abel his brother a man fearing God was a Shepheard which is a moving rouling occupation from one place to another thou tellest my flittings saith David Here we often shift our places and our company and must do so our businesses carrying us up and down to and fro but our felicity hereafter shall consist in rest in not changing for ever after either our company or place but when the Godly man shall accomplish as an hireling his day when his work which God hath appointed him here to do is done and finished he shall lye down in peace and receive his penny and enjoy his reward The Tents pitch'd in that Leskar or Camp Royal are for the most part white like the cloathing of those which own them But the Mogols Tents are red reared up upon Poles higher by much than the other They are placed in the middest of the Camp where they take up a very large compasse of ground and may be seen every way and they must needs be very great to afford room in them for himself his wives children women Eunuchs c. In the sore-front or outward part or Court within his Tent there is a very large room for accesse to him 'twixt seven and nine of the Clock at night which as before is called his Goozulcad His Tents are encompassed round with Canats which are like our Screenes to fold up together those Canats are about ten foot high made of narrow strong Callico and lined with the same stiffened at every breadth with a Cane but they are strongest lined on their outside by a very great company of arm'd Souldiers that keep close about them night and day The Tents of his great men are likewise large placed round about his All of them throughout the whole Leskar reared up in such a due and constant order that when we remove from place to place we can go as directly to those moveable dwellings as if we continued still in fixed and standing habitations taking our direction from several streets and Bazars or Market places every one pitched upon every remove alike upon such or such a side of the Kings Tents as if they had not been at all removed The Mogol which I should have observed before hath so much wealth and consequently so much power by reason of his marvelous great multitudes of fighting men which he alwayes keeps in Arms commanding at all times as many of them as he please that as the Moabites truely said of Israel while they had Almighty God fighting with them and for them so it may be said of him if God restrain him not that his huge Companies are able to lick up all that are round about him as the Oxe licketh up the grasse of the field Numb 22. 4. When that mighty King removes from one place to another he causeth Drums to be beat about midnight which is a signal token of his removing He r●moves not far at one time sometimes ten miles but usually a lesse distance according to the best convenience he may have for water there being such an infinite Company of men and other Creatures whose drink is water that in a little time it may be as truely said of them as it was of that mighty host of Sennacherib that Assyrian Monarch Es 37. 25. that they are able to drink up Rivers But when the place he removed to afforded plenty of good water he would usually stay there three or four dayes or more and when he thus rested in his Progresse would go abroad to finde out pastimes to which end he alwayes carried with him divers kindes of Halkes and Dogs and Leopards which as before they train up to hunt withall and being thus provided for variety of sports would fly at any thing in the Air or seize on any Creature he desired to take on the Earth The Mogol when he was at Mandoa which was invironed with great Woods as before was observed sometimes with some of his Grandees and a very great company beside of Persian and Tartarian hors-men his Souldiers which are stout daring men would attempt to take some young wilde Elephants found in these Woods which he took in strong toyls made for that purpose which taken were ma 〈…〉 ' d and made fit for his serv 〈…〉 In which hunting they likewise pursued on horse-back Lions and other wilde beasts and kill'd some of them with their Bowes and Carbanes and Launces An Heroick pastime or rather an high and dangerous attempt becoming great personages who if their honour and greatnesse balance will not be taken up with small things Imperia dura toll● quid virtus erit things difficult in their doing make them more honourable when done Aquila non capit Muscas Gnats and Flies are not pursued by Eagles In Tauros Lybici r●unt Leones Non sunt Papilionibus molesti Hor. Thus on chac'd Bulls the Lybian Lion hies But troubles not the painted Butter-flies I waiting upon my Lord Ambassadour two years and part of a third traveling with him in Progresse with that King in the most temperate moneths there 'twixt September April were in one of our Progresses 'twixt