fcHAP. II. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 391 



travels; and, like Tom Coriate*, print them at my 



own charge. Pray what dp you call this hill, we 

 came down ? 



* Tom Corlate lived in the reign of king James thefrst; and, as Wood 

 calls him, was the ivbetstone of all the -wits of that age : and indeed, the 

 allusions to him, and to the singular oddness of his character, are num- 

 berless. He travelled almost over Europe on foot ; and in that tour 

 walked BOO miles with one pair of shoes, which he got mended at 

 Zurich. Afterwards he visited Turkey, Persia, and the Great Mogul's 

 dominions, travelling in so frugal a manner, that as he tells his mother, 

 in a letter to her in his ten months' travels, between Aleppo and the 

 Mogul's court, he spent but three founds sterling ; living reasonably well 

 for about tivo-pence stirring a day ; and of that three pounds he elsewhere 

 says, he was cozened of no less than ten shillings sterling, by certain Chris- 

 tians of the Armenian nation ; so that indeed, he spent but fifty shillings 

 in his ten months' travels. In these his travels, he attained to great pro- 

 ficiency both in the Persian and Indostan languages; in the former, he made 

 and pronounced an oration to the Great Mogul ; and his skill in the 

 latter, he took occasion to manifest in the following very signal instance. 

 In the service of the English ambassador, then resident, was a woman 

 of Indostan, a laundress, whose frequent practice it was to scold, brawl 

 and rail, from sun-rising to sun-set. This formidable shrew, did Coriate 

 one day undertake to scold-with, in her own language ; and succeeded so 

 well in the attempt, that, by eight of the clock in the morning, he had 

 totally silenced her, leaving her not a word to speak. See A Voyage to 

 East-India, by Edward Terry, chaplain to Sir Tho. Row, ambassa'dor to 

 the Great Mogul, 12mo. 1655. 



Further it appears, that he was a zealous champion for the Christian 

 religion, against the Mahometans and Pagans; in the defence whereof, he 

 sometimes risqued his life. In Turkey, when a priest, as the custom is, 

 was proclaiming from a mosque-tower that Mahomet was a true prophet, 

 Tom, in the fury of his zeal, and in the face of the whole city, told the priest 

 be lyed, and that bis froplet tvas an imposter: and, at a city called Moltan, 

 in the East-Indies, he, in publick, disputed with a Mahometan, who had 

 called him ^/awr, or in/Mel in these words: " But I fray thee, tell me, tbou 

 * Mahometan! dost tbou, in sadness, call me GlAUR? That I do, rjuoth he : 

 " Thin, quoth I, in very sober sadness, I retort that shameful -word in thy throat; 

 " and tell thee plainly, that I am a MUSSULMAN, and tbou art a GlAUR." 

 He concludes thus : " Go to then, tbou false believer, situe by thy injurious 

 " imputation laid on me, in that thou calledst me GlAUR, tbou bast provoked me 

 " to speak thus. I pray thee, lt this mine ans-wer Be a warning for thee not 

 " to scandalize me in the like manner any more ; for the Christian relijrion t 

 " which I profess, is so dear and tender unto me, that neither tbou, nor 

 * c any other Mahometan, shall, scot free, call me GlAUR, but that I shall 

 *' quit you with an ansiver muth t the wonder of those Mahometans* 

 .>/*/-." 



He died of the flux, occasioned by drinking sack at Surat, in 

 1617: having published his European travels in a quarto volume, which 

 he called his Crudities; and to this circumstance the pas3age in the text 

 is a manifest allusion. See Atben. Oxon. Vol. I. Col. 422. ; Purchase's 

 Pilgrim, Part I. Book 4. Chap. 17. ; Coriate's Letter from tb* Court of tit 



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