'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.' [‎90] (409/1024)

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were very fmall. The King and the King-maker were both alike. For no TT
it could not but be a pleafant fight, to fee a Hollander, that had been ° i
the Cook of a Ship, crowning a miferable Pirat with thofe hands that HpH y
haadled a Ladle than a Sword. ner
In the mean time the Ships that carried the Inhabitants of Cochin to c
return'd laden with the fpoils of thofe diftrefled people ; for contrary to th *
Articles of Capitulation, the Hollanders were no fooner out at Sea but th
took from thofe poor Creatures whatever they had, rifling both men and worn ^
without any regard to fex or modefty. raen »
The General being return’d into Batavia, they fent a Governour to CWr
who to make the place the ftronger, demolifh’d a great part of the City V ^
this Governour us’d the greateft rigor imaginable, even toward the Souldier^
he fhut them up in the City as if they had been in a Prifon ; nor could th S 5
drink either. Wine, or Sury, or Strong-water, by reafon of the great Impoff
which he laid upon them. ( Sury is a drink which flows from the Palm-trees )
So that when the BortHguefes kept Cochin, men might live better for five or fe
Sous, than under the Hollander for ten. This Governour was fo fevere that
he would banifh a man for the fmalleft fault in the world, to the Ifland of Cev-
lan, to a place where they made Brick, fometimes for five or or fix years, fome-
times as long as the party liv’d. For it is oftentimes obferv'd, that when any
one is banifh’d thither, though the fentence be only for a term of years yet
the Exile never obtains his freedom afterwards. > j
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CHAP. XVII.
The Pajfage ly Sea from Ormtis to Maflipatan.
1 Departed from Gomron to ATajltpatan. the eleventh of May, 1652, and went
aboard a great Veflel of the King of Golconda’s, which is bound every year
from Perfia,tedeii with fine Calicuts,Chites,or Calicuts painted with a Pencil,which
makes them much more beautiful and dearer than thofe which are printed.
The Holland Company are wont to allow to thofe Vefiels which belong to any
of the Kings or Princes of India, a Pilot, and two or three Gunners; neisher
the Indians nor Per fans being expert in Navigation. In the VefTel where I was
aboard there were but fix Batch Mariners at moft, but above a hundred Na
tives. We failed out of the Golf, with a pleafing and favorable Gale;
but we had not fail’d very far before we found the Sea very rough, and the
Winds at South-Weft, fo violent, though full in our Stern, that we were not
able to carry out more than one fmall Sail. The next day, and for fome
days after, the Wind grew more violent, and the Sea more boift’rous 5 fo that
being in the fixteenth Degree, which is the elevation of 6W, the Rain, the
Thunder, and Lightning, render’d the Tempeft the more terrible} infomuch
that we could not carry out any other than our top-fail, and that half furl’d.
We pafs’d by Maldives Iflands, but were not able to difcern them, befides
that the Ship had taken in very much water in tbs Hold. For the Ship had
lain five months in the Road of Gomron, where if the Mariners are not very
careful to wafh the Planks that lye out of the water, they will be apt to gape,
which caufes the Ship to leak when fhe is loaden. For which reafon the Hoi*
landers wafh the outfide of their Ships morning and evening. We had in our
Veffelfive and fifty Horfes, which the King of Per fa had fent as a Prefentto
the King of Golconda and about a hundred Merchants, Per fans and Armenians
together, who were Traders to India. One whole day and night together
there rofe a crofs Wind, fo violent, that the Water rowPd in from Stern to
Stern, and the mifehief was, that our Pumps were nought. By good fortune
there was a Merchant that had two Bails of Rajfa Leather, befides four on
five Sadlers that knew how to low the Skins, who were very ferviceable as well