'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎40] (359/1024)

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chief. And you muft here take notice alfo, that the Ape never eats any thin
which he does not very well like the fcent of before-hand ; and before he fL]
lows any-thing, he lays up his Magazin againft future hunger ^ filling hi s w
with provifion, which he keeps till next day. d S s
I have faid, that the Banians have a particular Veneration for the Ape • r
Which I will give you one Example, among many, that I could bring. Being 0 n»
day at Amadabat, at the Houfe belonging to the Hollanders^ a young man of that
Nation newly arriv’d to ferve in the Fa&ory, not knowing the cuftom of the
Countrey, and feeing a great Ape upon a Tree in the Court, would needsfhewa
piece of adivity, or rather a trick of youth, to kill the Ape with a fmall Gun
I was at the Table then with the Xtaf7-Commander ^ and we no fooner heard the
blow, but we heard as foon a loud noife of Banians, that wait upon the Holland
Company, who came to complain bitterly of him that had kill’d the Ape. They
would all have been gone; fo that the Commander had much ado, and made
many excufes before he could appeafe them, and oblige them to Itay.
In the Neighbourhood about Amadabat, there are a great number of Ap es
And this is obfervable, that where there are a great number of thofe Ani
mals, there are very few Crows. For as foon as they have built their Nells
and laid their Eggs, the Apes get upon the Trees and throw their Egg s to
the Ground. One day returning from Agra, and departing out of Amada-
bat with the English Prefident, who came hither about fome bufinefs, and was
returning to Surat, we pafs’d through a little Forreft ofTrees, call’d Manmt
fome four or five Leagues from Amadabat ^ there we faw a vafc number of
great Monkeys, male and female, and many of their females holding their young
ones in their Arms. We had each of us our Coach, and the EngMa Prefi,
dent caufing his to flop, told me he had an excellent and very neat Barque-
bufs, that was prefented him by the Governor of Daman , and knowing
I could aim well, he defirM me to try it, at one of thofe Apes. One of my
Servants, who was born in the Country, making me a lign not to venture
I endeavoured to dilfwade the Preiident from his delign } but it was impof-
fible ; fo that I took, the Harquebufs, and kill’d a female Monkey, who lay
ilretch’d out upon the Boughs, letting her little ones fall to the ground. But
it fell out as my Servant had forewarn’d me. For immediately all the
Monkeys that were upon the Trees, to the number of fixty, came down in
a great fury, to have leap’d into the Prefidents Coach, where they would
foon have ftrangled him, had we not prevented them by clofing the Shutters,
and had we not had a great number of Servants, that with much ado kept
them off. And though they came not to my Coach, yet I was very much
afraid of my felf} for They purfued the Prelident’s Coach above a League, and
they were front lufry Monkeys.
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From Amadabat to Panfer, cofres ' 13
From Panfer to Mafana, coftes 14
From Mafana to Chit four, coftes 14
Chitfour is a very good City, fo called by reafon of the great Trade for painted-
Calicuts, which are called Chites : Near which, fome four or five-hundred paces
toward the South, there runs a fmall River. Arriving at Chitfour in one of my
Voyages, I pitch’d my Tent under two or three Trees at the end of a wide-place
neer the Town. A little while after I faw four or five Lions appear, which were
brought to be tam’d 3 which they told me took them up five or fix months ; and
their way to do it, is this .• They tye the Lions at twelve paces diftance one from
another by the hinder-legs, with a Rope faften’d to a great woodden-frakefet deep
in the ground,with another cord about the neck,which the Mafter holds in his hand.
Thefe ftakes are planted in the fame Line, and in another Parallel they ftretch out
another Cord as long as the fpace,which the bodies of the Lions fo difpos’d of,asl
have defcrib’d, take up. The two Cords which hold the Lion ty’d by the two
hinder-feet, give him liberty to fpring out as far as that long Cord 3 which'is a
mark to thofe that ftand to provoke and incenfe the Lions, by throwing ftones and
pieces of wood at them, not to venture any farther : The people run to fee the
light, and when the Lion, provok’d,gives a fpring towards the Cord, the Maker