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print them at my own charge. Pray what do you call this 

 hill we come down ? 



Pise. "We call it Hanson Toot. 



as, indeed, the allusions to him, and to the singular oddness of his 

 character, are numberless. He travelled almost all over Europe on foot, and 

 in that tour walked 900 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 pounds sterling ; living reasonably 

 well for about twopence sterling a-day. And of that three pounds he 

 elsewhere says, he was cozened of no less than ten shillings sterling, by 

 certain Christians 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 proficiency, 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 suc- 

 ceeded 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,' 1 by Edward Terry, chaplain to Sir Tho. Row, 

 ambassador 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 risked 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 he lied, and that his prophet was an impostor. And, at a city 

 called Moltan, in the East Indies, he in public disputed with a Mahometan, 

 who had called him Giaour, or infidel, in these words : " But I pray thee, 

 tell me, thou Mahometan ! dost thou, in sadness, call me giaour ?" "That 

 I do," quoth he. "Then," quoth I, "in very sober sadness, I retort that 

 shameful word in thy throat, and tell thee plainly that I am a Mussulman, 

 and thou art a Giaour." He concludes thus : "Go to, then, thou false 

 believer, since by thy injurious imputation laid on me, in that thou calledst 

 me Giaour, thou hast provoked me to speak thus. I pray thee, let this 

 mine answer be a warning for thee not to scandalise me in the like manner 

 any more ; for the Christian religion, which I profess, is so dear and tender 

 unto me, that neither thou nor any other Mahometan shall, scot free, call 

 me Giaour, but that I shall quit you with an answer much to the wonder of 

 those Mahometans. Dm." 



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 passage in the text is a 

 manifest allusion. (Chiefly from Fuller and Hawkins. H. G. B.) 



