Travels in India. Part-It. 



forty 

 with him. To engage more firmly 



gave a larger pay to all the PortugaL-OfiicerS, and to the Sou^diers proportiona- 

 ls . g ut; thofe of theCountrey had no more than their ordinary pay doubl'd. 

 Tis an incredible thing to fee how fwiftly theie Galeaffes cur their way in the wa- 



Someare fo long that they carry fifty Oars of a fidej but they have but 

 two men to an Oare : There are feme very curioufly painted, and upon which 

 there is no colt of Gold and Azure fpar'd. The Hollanders have fome of their 

 own to tranfport their Goods 3 and fometimes they are fore'd ro hire others, 

 whereby many people get a good livelihood. 



The next day after my arrival at Daca, which was the i+tb oi fMtvtarj, I went 

 to wait upon the Nahak ; and preiented him with a Garment of Cloath of Gold, 

 J ac'd with a Gold-needle-work Lace of Point ofty4*»j with a Scarf of Gold 

 and Silver of the fame Point; and a very fair Fmrald-Jewel. To ward evening, 

 being return'd to the Hollander sHou\'c } where I lodg'd, the N*h4 &nt me Gra- 

 nates, C&*»4-Oranges, two P«^*»-Melon$, and three forts of Pears. 



The fifteenth, I (hewed him my Goods, and preiented the Prince with a Watch, 

 in a Gold-EnameU'd-Caie ; with a pair of little Pittols inlaid with Silver, and a 

 very fair Profpe&ive-Glais. What I gave to the Father and the Son, a young 

 Lord, about ten years old, itood me in above five thouland Livres. 



The fixteenth, ! treated with him about the Prizes of my Goods : And at length 

 I went to his Steward to take my Letter of Exchange to be paid at Cafin-Bazar. 

 Not but that he would have paid me my Money at Daca; but the HolLndtrs, who 

 underftood things better than I did,told me it was very dangerous to carrv Mony to 

 C^«-£,*2-rfr,whither there was no going,but over the G*a&s by water,the way by 

 land being full of Bogs and Fer.s. And to go by water is no lefs dangerously reafon 

 that the Boats which they ufe, are very apt to tip over upon the leait ftorra : And 

 when the Mariners perceive that you carry Money along with you, 'tis an eafy 

 thing for them to overfet the Boat, and afterwards to come and take up the 

 Money that lies but at the bottom of the River. 



The twentieth, I took leave of the Nabab, w ho defiVd me ro come and fee 

 him again, and caus'd a Pafs to be deliver'd me, wherein he gave me the title of 

 one of the Gentlemen of his Koule, which he had done before, when he was Go- 

 vernor of Amad.xbad, when I went to him., to the Army, in the Province of Decan, 

 into which the Raja-fiva-gi was enter'd, as I fhal! relate in another place. By ver- 

 rue of theie Partes I could travel over all the Countreys of the Great Mogul, as 

 being one of his Houfhold. 



The one and twentieth, the Hollanders made a great Feaft for mv fake } to 

 which they invited the Englijh, and fome Ponnguefe's, together with the AujUn- 

 Friers of the fame Nation. 



The two and twentieth, I made a Vifit to the EngUfi, whofe Prefident then was 

 Mr. Prat. 



From the twenty-third to the twenty-ninth, I bought up Goods ; to the value 

 of noco Roupies ; and after I had embark'd them, I took my leave. 



The twenty-ninth, in the evening, I departed from Daca, the Hollanders bear- 

 ing me company for two leagues/with their little Barques Arm'd ; Nor did we 

 fpare the Spani/h-Wme all that time. Having been upon the River from the 

 twenty-ninth of January to the eleventh of February, I left my Goods and Ser- 

 vants in the Barque at Acerat 5 where I took a Boat that carri'd me to a great 

 Village calfd Mirdapur. 



The next day I hir'd an Horfe for my felf, but not finding another for my Lug- 

 gage,! was fore'd to hire two Women, who carri'd it for me. That evening I ar- 

 riv'd at Cafen-Bafar, where I was welcom'd by Menheir Arnold Van Wacbttendon^ 

 Director of all the Holland-FaCtories in Bengala,who invited me to lie at bisHoufe. 



The fourteenth, Menheir IVacfotendonl^returrfd to OHguely, where is the Gene- 

 ral Factory. The fame day one of my Servants brought me word that my 

 People and Goods, which I had left behind in the Barque, had been in very 



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