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Glafs of Wine, mixing fome of the River-water with it} which caus’d a ptipjT
in our bellies .* But out Servants that drank it alone, were worfe tormented tha §
we. The Hollanders, who have an Houfe upon the Bank of Ganges, never drink
the water of this River, until they have boil’d it. BOtforthe natural Inhabitant
of the Countrey, they are fo accuftom’d to it from their youth, that the Kin S
and the Court drink no other. You fhall fee a vaft number of Camels every dav"
whofe builnefs only it is to fetch water from the Ganges. "
The yth, l came to Halabas, coltes • g
Hdab as is a great City, built upon a point of Land where Ganges and demi
ne meet. There is a fair Caftle of hew’n Stone, with a double Moat; where
the Governour refides. He is one of the greateft Lords in India ; and being
very lickly, he has always about him ten Terfian Phyficians. He had alfo in his
fervice, Claudius Maille of Bourges, who pradtifes Chyrurgery and Phyfick both
together. This was he that advis’d us not to drink of Ganges Water, which
would put us into a loofenefs} but rather to drink Well-water. The chief of
thefe Berfian Phylicians, whom this Governour hires with his Money, one day
threw his Wife from the top of a Battlement to the ground } prompted to that
adt of cruelty, by fome jealoulies he had entertain’d. He thought the fall had
kill’d her, but fhe had only a Rib or two bruis’d ; whereupon the Kindred of
the Woman came and demanded juftice, at the feet of the Governour. The Go
vernor fending for the Phylician, commanded him to be gone, refolving to re
tain him no longer in his fervice. The Phyfician .obey’d,and putting his maim’d
Wife in a Pallanquin, he fet forward upon the Road with all his Family. But
tie was not gone above three or four days journey from the City, when the Go
vernour finding himfelf worfe than he was wont to be, fent to recall him;
which the Phylician perceiving, flab’d his Wife, his four Children, and thirteen
female Slaves,and return’d again to the Governour, whofaid not a word to him,
but entertain’d him again into his fervice.
The eighth, day I crofs’d the River in a large Boat, having flay’d from morn
ing till noon upon the bank-lide, expeding Monfieur Maille, to bring me a Pafs-
port from the Governour. For there flands a JDerega, upon each fide of the
River, who will not fuffer any perfon to pafs without leave and he takes no
tice what fort of Goods are tranfported ; there being due from every Waggon
four Roupies, and from every Coach onenot accounting the charge of the
Boat,which you muft pay belide. The fame day I went to Sadoul-ferail, coltes 16
The ninth, to Yakedel-~fera, coftes 10
The tenth, to Bouraki-fera, cofles 10
The eleventh, to Banarou, coftes 10
Banarou is a large City, and handfomly built; the moll part of the Houfes
being either of Brick or Stone and higher than in any other Cities of India ;
butthe inconvetiiency is, that the Streets are very narrow. There are many
Inns in the Town ; among the reft, one very large, and very handfomely built
In the middle of the Court are two Galleries, where are to be fold Calicuts,
Silks, and other forts of Merchandife. The greateft part of the Sellers, are
the Workmen themfelves ; fo that the Merchants buy at the firft hand. Thefe
Workmen, before they expofe any thing to fale, muft go to him that has the
ftamp, to have the King’s Seal fet upon their Linnen and Silks; otherwife they
#-ould be lin’d, and lambafted with a good Cudgel. This City is fcituated
upon the North lide of Ganges, that 'runs by the Walls, and into which there
falls alfo another River,fome two leagues upward toward the Weft. In Banam
ftands one of the Idolaters principal Pagods, whereof I lhall fpeak in my tond
Book, when I come to treat of the Religion of the Banians.
About five hundred paces from the City Northward, there is a Mofquee,
where are to be feen many Mahometan Sepulchers y whereof fbme are very
curious pieces of Architecture. The faireft are every one in the middle of a
Garden enclofed with Walls, wherein there are Holes fome half a foot fquare,
through which Pafiengers may have a fight of the Tomb within. The molt
confiderable of all is as it were four fquare Pedeftal, every fquare whereof
is forty paces wide. In the midft of this Platform rifes a Column thirty-two
or thirty-five foot high, all of a piece, which three men can hardly embrace.
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