'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.' [‎205] (534/1024)

Book III* Travels in I n d i Ai
board. After that they brought great ftore of Tortoife-Shells, and OH richer
Eggs, and other Eggs as big as Goofe Eggs; which though they had no Yolk,
tilted wery well. The Birds that lay thefe Eggs are a fort of Geefe,and fo fat
that they are hardly to be eaten, tailing rather like Fifli than Fielh. The wo
men feeing our Cook throw away the Guts of two or three Fowl which he was
dreffing, took them up, and fqueezing out the Ordure, eat them as they were *
being hugely pleas’d with the u 4 qua Kita which the Captain gave them. Nei
ther men nor women are alham’d to (hew their nakednefs, for indeed they are
but a fort of human Bealls.. > \ 1 [
So foon as the Ship arrives, they bring their Beeves to the (hore, with what
other Commodities they have, to barter for Hrong Water and Tobacco, Cry-
Hal or A gat Beads j or any fort of old Iron work. If they are not fatisffd with
what you olfer them, away they fly; and then giving a whillle all their Cat-
tel follow ’em ; nor lhall you ever fee ’em again. Some, when they faw ’em
fly, would flioot and kill their Cattd } but after that for fome years they would
never bring any more. ’Tis a very great convenience for the Veflels that touch
there, to take in frelh Vidals \ and the Hollanders did well to build a Fort
there. It is now a good handfom Town, inhabited by all forts, that live with
the Hollanders *, and all forts of Grain, which are brought out of Eurofe or lAJia
and fow’d there, come to better perfedion there then in other parts. The Coun
try lies in thirty-five Degrees, and fome few 7 Minutes over, fo that it cannot be
laid that either the heat or feituation of the Climate makes thefe C^/mfo black.
Being defirous to know the reafon,and why they Hunk fo terribly,! learnt it from a
Girl that was bred up in the Fort, who was tak’n from her Mother, as foon as
fhe was born, and was white like our women in Europe } Hie told me, that the
reafon why the Cafres are fo black is, becaufe they rub themfelves with a Qreafe
or Ointment compos’d of feveral forts of Drugs} wherewith fliould they not
anoint themfelves very often, and as foon as they were born, they fliould be
come Hydropfical, as the Blacks of Africa, and the dbyjp.ns are ; or like the
people of Saba, that never live above forty years, and are always troubl’d with
one Leg twice as big as the other. Thefe Cafres , as bruitifh as they are, have
yet fome knowledge of Simples, which they know to apply to feveral Difeafes 5
which the Hollanders have feveral times experienc’d. Of nineteen lick peribns
that we had in our Ship, fifteen were committed to the care of thefe Cafresy
being troubl’d with Ulcers in their Legs, and old wounds which they had re
ceiv’d in the wars} and in lefs then fifteen days they were all perfedly cur’d
Every one of thefe had two Caf es to look after him ^ and according to the con
dition of the wound or Ulcer, they went and fetch’d Simples, which they bruis’d
between two Stones, and apply’d to the fore. As for the other four,they werefo
far gone with the Pox, that they would not trufl the Caf es with them, having
been given over at Batavia, and fb they all dy’d, between the Caye and St. He~
lens.
In the year iddi, a Gentleman of Britanny being at Batavia, wz* fo bit by
the Gnats in the night, that his Leg exulcerated prefently in fuch a manner, as
to puzzle all the arc and skill of the Chirurgeons in that Town. When became
to the Cape of good Hope,the Captain of the Ship fending him a fhore, the Cafres
came about him, and after they had beheld him, they told him if he would
trnft to them they would cure him. The Captain thereupon committed him to
their care, who cur’d him and made him a found man in lefi then fifteen days.
When a Ship comes to an Anchor in the Cape, it is the fafhion for him that
commands the Ship, to give leave to fome part of the Mariners and Souldkirs to
go afhore to refrelli themfelves. The fickly have firfl leave by turns, and go to
the Town, where they are dyeted and lodg’d for feven or eight Sous a day, and
are very well us’d. v ' •
It is the cuflom of the Hollanders, when they Hay here, to fend our parties of
Sotildiers upon the difeovery of the up-land Country, and they that go fartheft
are bell rewaaded. With this defign a party of Souldiers, under the Command
a Serjsnt, far advanc’d in the Country , and night coming on, they
made a great fire, as well to keep themfelves from the Lions, as to warm them
felves,and fo laydown to fleep round about it.Being afleep,a Lion came andfeiz’d