±1 AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKEERS, 



and palTed through Perfia, by the route of Shamaki, 

 Sherwaun, Tubrez, Hamadan, and Ifpahan ; in which 

 capital he fojourned during forty days, and then pafled 

 onto Shirauz; where he arrived during the govern- 

 ment of Kerim Shah, whom he defcribes as being 

 then about forty years of age, as far as he could judge 

 from an audience he had of him ; and there were, he 

 adds, two Englifh gentlemen (one of whom he calls 

 Mr. ListerJ at this King's court at the period of his 

 vifiting it. 



XII. Embarking at Aboofheher, on the fouthern 

 coaft of Perfia, he reached the Ifle of Kharek, then 

 governed by a chief called Meer Manna, who had, 

 he obferves, taken it from the Dutch, and whom he 

 reprefents as a chieftain living by carrying on a war- 

 fare againft all his neighbours ; and he mentions 

 feveral Hindus as being fettled here. He next arrived 

 at the iflands called Bahrein, on the coafts of which 

 pearls are, he fays, found ; whence re-embarking for 

 Bujforah, the veiTel he was in was met and examined, 

 and again releafed, by the Bombay and Tartar grabs, 

 then carrying on hoftilities (as he underflood) againft 

 Solyman, the Mahommedan chief of the Bahrein 

 Ides. After this occurrence our traveller arrived at 

 Bujforah, a well known town and fea-port, in which 

 he found a number of Hindu houfes of trade, as well 

 as two idols or figures of Vishnu, known under his 

 appellations of Govinda Raya and Calyana Raya; 

 or, according to the vulgar enunciation, and Praun 

 Poory's pronunciation of their names, Kulyan Row 

 and Gobind Row. 



XIII. Afrer an ineffectual attempt to penetrate up 

 the Tigris to Baghdad, he returned to Bufforah, whence 

 defcending the Perfian Gulph, he arrived at Mufcar, 

 where he met alfo a number of Hindus ; and from that 

 place he reached Surat. From hence he again pro- 

 ceeded by fea to Mokha, where alfo he found a number 



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