'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.' [‎207] (536/1024)

Book III.
Travels in India.
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monthly cuftoms arc upon em^ they happen to. make water, and that Eure*
yew chances to fet his feet upon it, it caiiFes an immediate Head-ach arid Fea
rer, which many times turns to the Plague,
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CHAP. XXVII.
The Holland Fleet arrives at St. Helens. The difeription of the Ijland
IT Aving ftaid two and twenty dayes at the Cafe of good Hope, feeing that the
A A Wind was favourable, we weigh’d, and fteer’d for St. Helens. When we
were under Sail, the Mariners cry’d out, they would fleep till they came into
St. Helens Road. For the wind is very conftant, and carries you in fifteen or
eighteen days to the Road of the liland. All the trouble that our Mariners had
was that fourteen days after our departure from the Cafe, they were often Forc’d
to the T op-Malt head, upon difeovery ot the Ifland; for as foon as you difeover
the Ifland, the Pilot mult take care to fleer to the Noth-iide of the Ifland be-
caufe there is no calling Anchor but on that lide, and that very near the ihore
too ; by reafon of the deepnefs of the water; for if the Anchors come not to
take hoi;!, the current of the water and the wind carries the Ship quite out of
the Road, which there is no recovering again, becaufe the wind never changes
So foon as the Ships came to an Anchor, part of the Seamen were fent afhore
to get wild Hogs, ot which there are great plenty; and to gather Sorrel which
grows m great abundance; and indeed they not only fend the Seamembut all the
Pigs, Sheep, Geeie, Ducks,and Pullets aboard,to feed upon that Sorrel, which pur
ges them in fuch a manner,that in a few days they became fo fori h a t by that time
we came to Holland they were hardly to be eaten. That Sorrel has the fame
operation upon the men,who boiling their wild Swines flelh,Rice,and Sorrelto-
gether, make thereof a kind of Potage fo excellent, that it keeps their bodies
open by an infenfible purgation.
There are two places upon the Coall of St. Helens where Ships may come to
an Anchor. But the belt is that where we lay, by reafon that ground is very
good,and for that the water that falls from the Mountain is the belt in the Ifland
a this part of the Ifland there is no plain,for the.Mountain defeends to the very
wore of the Sea. 3
It is not fo good anchoring in the other Road; but there is a very handfome
plain, where you may fow or plant whatever you pleafe. There are great llore
or Citrons, and fome Oranges, which the Vortugds had formerly planted there
i or that Nation has that vertue, that wherever they come, they make the place
me better for thofe that come after them ; whereas the Hollanders endeavour to
oehroy all things wherever they fet footing. I confefs the Commanders are not
or that humour, but the Sea-men and Souldiers, who Cry one to another, welhall
never come hither any more, and out of greedinefs will cut down a whole tree
initcad of gathering the fruit.
Some days after there arriv’d a Tisrtugmu Veflel from Guiny, full of Slaves
wmch were bound for the Mines of Tern. Some of the Hollanders that underitood’
the language of the Negro's, tol’d ’em how miferably they would be us’d, and
hereupon the next n ight two hundred and fifty of them threw themfelves into the
And indeed it is a miferable llavery ; for fometimes afterthey have min'd in
ipine places for fome days together, the Earth being loofe, falls down and kills
our or live hunder’d at a time. Beiides, that after they had been mining awhile,
en Paces, their Eyes, and their Skins change colour; which proceeds from the
vapours that arife from thofe concavities; nor could they fubfift in thofe places,
m., n 01 -S 6 c 2 uai i ,: ^y of flrong Water which they give both to the men andwo-
fnr rh • r e ^ e are ^ orae t ^ at are made free by their Mailers,who labour however
the; eir r n S ’ but between Saturday night and Munday morning they Ipend all
miferably wa ^ es ^ ron S Water,which is very dear j fo that they alwayslive
adGv ln8 u e 4 dy t0 de F art the Ifland of St. Helens, the Admiral call’da Council,to
winch way to Iteer. The greateft part were fbr fleering more to the Weft,
a ' then