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as occafion requires, thirty or forty times, even as often as any ill-blood comes
forth ; as they did by me one time that I was at Surat. Rutter and flefh i s very-
dangerous to them that; are Tick, and many times coft them their lives. Formerly
they made feverai forts of well-tafted diet for thofe that recovered .• Now they
ferve the Patient only with young Beef-broth, and a difh of Rice. Ufually the
poorer fort that recover their health, complain of drowth, and call for water
But they that look after them,being only Blacks,or Mongrels, a fort of covetous
and pittilefs people, will not give them a drop, unlefs they put mony in their
hands; and to colour their wickednefs, they give it them by Health, pretending
what they do to be againft the Phylitian’s order. As for Sweet-meats and Pre-
ferves,there is no want of them ^ but they are not a diet which contributes over
much to the reftoring of decay’d ftrength,efpecially in thofe hot Countreys where
the body requires rather cooling and refrefhing nourilhment.
I have forgot one thing in reference to their more frequent blood-lettings than
among us Europeans. Which is, that to bring their colour again, and to reftore
them to perfect health, they order the Patient to drink for twelve days together
three glalfes of Cow’s Urine} one in the morning,another at noon,and another at
night. But in regard it is a very naufeous fort of drink, the Patient fwallowsas
little as he can, how defirous foe vef he may be of his health. They learnt this
remedy from the Idolaters of the Country} and whether the Patient will take
it or no, they never let him ftir out of the Hofpital, till the twelve days are ex
pir’d wherein he ought to drink it.
CHAP. XIV.
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What the Author did, during his flay at Goa, the lafi time he went
thither in the year 1648.
C . I li»w . C- . . .'16 -'"d Vi - • A. *. v> 1^* 7 J ■-
T WO days before I departed from Mingrela for Goa, I wrote to Monfiair
St. Ammt, who was Engineer, to fend me a Man of War, for fear of the
Maivkres which are upon the CoaH ? which he immediately did. I parted from
MmgreU xM 20th of January 1648, and arriv’d at Goa the 25/V And in regard
it was late, I Raid till the next morning before I went to vifit the Fice-Roy,Don
Fbilip de Mafcaregnas, who had formerly been Governor of Ceylan. He made
me very welcome,and during the two months that I tarri’d at he fentto ms
a Gentleman five or fix times, who brought me Hill to the Powder-Houfe, which
was without the City, where he often us'd to be. For he took ^reat delight in
levelling Guns, wherein he ask’d my advice, eficeming very much a Piftol very
curioufly and richly mlaid,which I prefented him at my arrival. This Piftol the
Trew/7-Conful at Alepto gave me, the fellow of it being unhappily loft .* for elfe
the Pair had been prefented by the EVew^-Nation to the Bafha, who might then
have boafted himfelf the Mafter of the fairefl and bell-made pair of Piftols in all
Afia. The Vice-Roy admits no perfon whatever,no not his Children to fit at his
Table. But there is a little partition in the Dining-room,where there is a Cloath
laid for the Principal Officers, as is ufual in the Courts of the G'em^-Princes.
The next day I went to wait upon the Arch-Bifhop, and the next day after I ee-
fign’d to have vifited the Inquifitor ^ but I underftood by one of his Gentlemen
that he was bufy, writing into Portugal, there being two Ships ready to weigh
Anchor, that only flaid for his difpatches. After the Ships were fet fail, he lent
the fame Gentleman to tell me that he expe&ed me at the Inquifition-Houfe,
about two or three in the afternoon. 1 fail’d not to go thither at the time pre
fix’d. when I came, a Page brought me into a large Hall,where after I had walk a
a quarter of an hour,an Officer came and carri’d me into the Cha uber where tue
Inquifitor was. After I had pall through two Galleries, and fome Chambers,! en
ter’d into a little Chamber where the Inquifitor fat at the end ot a great 1 able
like a Billiard-Table-whichjas well as the Chairs and Stools in the Chamber, was
' cover a