2C4 TOREEN'S VO?AGE. 



Thefe preachers of the gofpel are obliged, by 

 the commands of their defpotic fupeiaors, to 

 continue here during their whole ififeJ°* 



The Dutch have a director, with a Council 

 and officers, as is ufual with them in Eaji 

 hidia. 



The chief factory of the Englijh in thefe 

 parts i$ Bombay ; however, they have likewife 

 a faclory at Suraiie, with the neceffary om> 

 cers. All the factories belonging to the Eng- 

 lijh in the Eaft Indies have chaplains. 



Here are likewife Jews poffeiTed of confi- 

 derable wealth. One, by name Mofes Tobias, 

 was diftinguiihed on account of his liberality 

 towards people of all religions ; he is faid to 

 have commonly diftributed in charity forty 

 rupees per month. A cakan t or fcribe, told 

 us, that the long-fought-for fceptre of Juda 

 could flill be found ; and that he had certain 

 accounts of a great number of Jews in Afri~ 

 ca> to the weft of AbyJJinia, who flill were 

 fubjeft to their own magiftrates. 



y There is an admiral at Suratte, but he has 

 the misfortune of having no (hips under his 



commando 



