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Sarqttcfs ; and it was famous for traffick at the time when the Partugttefes flou- 

 rifh'd in India. There are to be feen at this day, in the Quarter oext :he 

 Sea, very fair Houfes, which they had built, with very rich Furniture, after 

 the Portugal manner 5 but now they are uninhabited, and fall to decay every day 

 more and more. There were then fuch good Orders obferv'd in Cfmiwya., 

 that two hours after day was fhut in, every Street was Jockt up with two 

 Gates, which arc ftill to be feen 5 and ftill they continue to lock up the prin- 

 cipal Streets, as alfb the Streets that lead into the Town. One of the chief 

 realbns why the Town has loft the greateft part of its Trade is, becaufe that 

 formerly the Sea run clofe up to Cambaya, ib that little Veflels eafily anchor'd 

 by it j but afterwards the Sea daily loft in that part, 10 that a imall Ship could 

 not ride within five or \\\ Leagues of the City. 



There are a great number of Peacocks in the Indies, efpecially in the Ter- 

 ritories of Barocbc, Cambaya , and Broudra. The flefh of the young ones is 

 white and well-rafted, like ours, and you fhall fee vaft numbers of them all 

 day in the fields, for at night they rooft upon the Trees. Tis a hard mat- 

 ter to come near them in the day, for as loon as they perceive themJelvcs 

 hunted, they fly away as fwift as a Partpidg among the Bullies •, ib that it is 

 jmpoilible for any man to follow them without tearing" his Cioaths ail to rags ; 

 therefore are they only to be taken in the night time, to which purpoie they 

 have this invention. They approach the Tree with a kind of a Banner, upon 

 which there is a Peacock painted to the life on both fides ; at the top of the 

 ftick are falten'd two lighted Candles, the brightness whereof amazing die Pea- 

 cock, caufes him to ftretch out his Neck toward the end of the tricky to which 

 there is a Rope ty'd with a- Hiding knot, which he that holds tue Banner draws, 

 when he finds that the Peacock has put his Neck into it. ait you mm. have 

 a care of killing either Bird, or any other Animal in the Territories, of which 

 the idolatrous Rajas are Matters ; which it is nothing dangerous to do in thofc 

 pan? of the Indies, where the Governonrs are Mahometan^ and give liberty 

 to Fowl or Hunt. It happen'^ one time that a rich Perfian Merchant, pai- 

 fing through the Territories of the Raja of Dar.truar, (hot a Peacock upon the 

 road, and kill'd it, either out of rafhncis, or ignorance of the Cuitoms of the 

 Country. The Batimatts incens'd at the attempt, which is accounted among 

 them a molt abominable facriledg, feiz'd upon the Merchant, and all his Mo- 

 ney to the value of 300000. Roupies, and tying him to a Tree, whipt him in 

 fo terrible a manner for three days together, that the man dy'd. 



from Cambay* you go to a Iktie Village diltant fome three Coftes, where 

 there is a Pagod, to which all the IndUn Oirtifans comedo make their Of- 

 ferings. This Pagod is full of a great number of naked Images a^ng the 

 reit/ there is a Urge Figure of one that items to refemble Apollo, with his 

 privy parts all uncover'd. When the old Curtifans have got together a good 

 fin of Money in their youth, they buy yonilfe; Slaves, whom they teach to 

 Daunce, and fmg wanton Songs, and inftrucT in afl the myitcries of their in- 

 famous Art. And when thefe young Girls are eleven or twelve years old, 

 their Miftrefies lend them to this Pagod, believing it will bring them good 

 fortune, to otter and furrender # up themf elves to this Idol. 



From this Pagod to Cbudabad you have fix Coftes. This is one of the faireit 

 Nodes of the great Mogul, with "a wide Endofure, wherein he has vaft Gar- 

 dens, and large Ponds, with all the pleafiires and curiofity whereof the Ge- 

 nius of die Indians is capable. 



From Chudabad to Amadabad you have but five Coftes } and lb I return to 

 Barocbc, and the common Road. 



From lUroche to Breudra, Coftes f 2 



Kroudr* is a great City ftanding in a fertil Soil, wherein there is a vaft Trade for 

 Calicuts. 



From Broudra to Neriade y coftes *** 



From N criade to Awadabat, coftes , . 2 ° 



Amadabat is one of the greateft Cities in India s and where there is a mighty 



Trade for Silk-Stutfs, Hangings of Goid and Silver, and others mix d with Silk 9 



for Saltptter, Sugar, Gmger candid and raw ; Tamarw, Mirobelans ; and flat 



1 J * * Inaigo } 



