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great danger, by reafon of the high Winds that had blown for two days to- 

 gether. 



The fifteenth, the Hollanders lent me a Pallekis, to go to Madcftu-bafirrk^. 

 This was a great Town three Leagues from Cafen-bafar, where lay C ha- Eft- 

 Kan's Receiver General, to whom I prefented my Bill of Exchange. He told 

 me it was very good, and that he would willingly have paid me, had he not 

 receiv'd order the night before, not to pay me, in cafe he had not paid me al- 

 ready. He did not tell me the reafon that mov'd Cha-Eft-Kau to ad in that 

 manner 5 fo that I went home to my Lodging infinitely furpriz'd at his pro- 

 ceeding. 



The llxteenth, I wrote to the Nahab, to know the reafon why he had for- 

 bad his Receiver General to pay me. 



The feventeenth in the evening, I took water for Ougueli } in a Bark of four- 

 teen Oars, which the Hollanders lent me ; and that night and the next I lay 

 upon the River. 



The nineteenth toward evening, I pafs'd by a large Town call'd Nandi, far- 

 ther than which the Sea does not flow. Here the Wind blew fo fiercely, and 

 the Water grew fo rough, that we were forc'd to ftay three or four hours, 

 and ly by the fhore. 



The twentieth, I arriv'd at Ougueli, where I ftay'd till the fecond of March. 

 During which time the Hollanders bid me very welcome, and made it their 

 bufinefs to fhew me all the divertifements which the Country was capable to 

 afford. We went feveral times in Pleafure-Boats upon the River, and we had 

 a Banquet of all the Delicacies that the Gardens of Europe could have afforded 

 us. Salads of all forts, Colewarts, Afparagus, Peafe, but our chiefeft Difh was 

 fapon Beans ; the Hollanders being very curious to have all forts of Pulfe and 

 Herbs in their Gardens, though they could never get Artichokes to grow in 

 that Country. 

 The fecond of March I left Ougueli, and the fifth arriv'd at Cafenbafar. 

 The next day I went to Made jou- Bar -fakj, to know whether the Nahab had 

 fent any other orders to his Receiver. For I told you a little before, that I 

 wrote upon the place to Ch.i-Ejl-Kan , to complain of his proceedings, and 

 to know the reafon why my Bill of Exchange was not paid. The Director 

 of the Holland Factories writ a Letter alio in my behalf, which I enclofed, 

 wherein he repre.ented to the Nahab, that I was too well known to him, as 

 having been formerly with him at Amadabat, in the Army in Decan, and othef 

 places, to deierve Inch hard uiage. That he ought to confider, that I being 

 ' the only perfbn that brought the chiefeft rarities of Europe to the Indies, it 

 was not the way to make me eager of returning any more, as he himfelf had 

 invited me to do, to fend me away in a difcontent. Befides, that the credit 

 of my report would difcourage others from coming to the Indies, fearing the 

 fame ufage as I had receiv'd. Neither mine nor the Directors Letter produe'd 

 that efFecT: which we expeded. Nor was I much better fatisfYd with the new- 

 order which the Nahab fent to his Receiver ; which was to pay me, abating 

 twenty thoufand Roupies of the fum which we had agreed upon j and if I 

 would not take the remainder, that I might come and fetch my goods again 

 This ill dealing of the Nahab, proceeded from a fcurvy trick that was play d 

 me by three Canary-birds at the Great Mogul's Court. The ftory whereof 

 was thus in (hort : , • . 



Aurengz.cb, that now reigns, at the inftigation of two Perfians and a Bantan, 

 has brought up a cuftom very much to the difadvantage of Merchants, that 

 come out of Europe, and other parts, to fell Jewels at Court. For whether 

 they come into India either by Land or Sea , the Governour of the place 

 where they tirft arrive, has order to fend them to the King, together with 

 their goods, whether they will or no. As the Governour of Surat deali t by 

 me, in the year i66f, fending me to DehU, or fehanabad, where the King 

 was. There were then attending upon his Majefty, two Perfians and a Z* m *"> 

 who are entrufted to view and examine all the Jewels which are to be fold 

 to the King. One of thofe Perfians is call'd Nahab- -Akel-K an, that is, the Prince 

 of the Spm>sti who keeps all the Kings Jewels, The name of the other is 



