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like a Cat, and when the keeper stroaked it, it would make a noise much the 

 same aa a Cat when she purls : These are kept to set upon Bulls before the 

 Emperor, which they do sneakinly, coming behind to leap upon their quar- 

 ters which one of our right bred English Mastiffs would scorn to do ; a true 

 Bull Dog being too hard a Match for one of these Lions, which has often 

 been proved at the court of Persia to the commendation of their courage. '' 

 When Fryer left Ispahan the Company's Agent remained behind, waiting for 

 a favourable opportunity to appear before the Emperor, which was a thing 

 of great difficulty and expense to the Company, it seldom costing less than a 

 thousand Thomands in fees and presents. " The Irish Buckhoimds brought 

 up for that end were admired and talked of by all, and represented to be as 

 big as Camels ; and though they were young proved swift Creatures, I seeing 

 the Bitch in our journey turn an Antelope, which none of their Hounds ever 

 came near ; and had the dog been yare, no doubt but they had seized it. " 

 The dog, too, had a sense of humour as the following story related by Fryer 

 goes to show. Being let loose one day, " he rambled about the Caravan for 

 what he could get to satisfy his Hunger ; whilst an Hodge (one of their 

 Pilgrims to Mahomet's Tomb) who was at his devotions on the most conspi- 

 cuous place of the Ser Raw (they loving to be seen of men) had placed a 

 Bowl of Buttermilk tempered for his Tooth, ready by him, to fall to after 

 his prayers ; he bowing his Face to the ground, as their custom is to worship 

 and there lying prostrate : the Dog scenting the Bowl, mounted the Quad- 

 rangle and clapping one Leg on the neck of the Hodge, kept him in that 

 Posture, while he had made cleaner work than the Pilgrim, who for fear 

 durst neither stir nor cry out, lest he should provoke so terrible a Monster 

 to devour him ; but silently passed by both the affront and the Loss ; while 

 in the meantime it was occasion of much laughter to the whole Caravan Ser 

 Raw to behold the man of lofty Thoughts oi' his own Purity, thus handled 

 by the Beast, and none offering to step in to his rescue, till we had called him 

 off ; for which the Hodge thought himself obliged to return us Thanks, for 

 delivering him from so great danger." 'I he sheep of the country were pro- 

 digiously large, trailing tails after them, of the weight of thirty pounds full 

 of fat, especially after the vintage and the cotton harvest, when they fed on 

 the leave afd tender branches of the vines and gathered up the scattered 

 seeds of the cotton. " Their Horses though they have degenerated from 

 their Primitive Eace still are the best of all in the East, unless the Arabians 

 be preferred for swifter Courses and light Horses ; however for charging 

 Horses, and stout warlike Steeds, they are valued above all others." 



On his return to Bombay one of the Mogul's generals, the Governor 

 of Jeneah (now a town in the Poona District) having need of the service of 

 a doctor, Fryer was commanded by the Hon. Gerald Aungier, to set forth for 

 that place. Leaving Bombay at three in the afternoon on St. George's day, 

 he anchored at nine that evening below Thana, The next morning, he 

 proceeded up the creek, the hanks of which were low and fruitful and 



