Book! Travels in I ND1A . 71 



chap. xn. 



The Road from Surat to Goa, and from Goa to Golconda through 



Vifapour. 



YO U may go from Surat to Goa, partly by Land, and partly by Sea. But the 

 Road being very bad by Land, generally Travellers go by Sea, and hiring an 

 Alntadicr, which is a Barque with Oars, they go by the Shoar to Goa : though 

 fbmetimes the Malavares or Indian Pirats are very much to be fear'd all along 

 thole Coafts, as I (hall tell you in due place. 



The way from Surat to Goa, is not reckon d by Coftes, but by Cos, one of which 

 makes four of our common Leagues. 



From Surat to Daman, gos 7 



From Daman to Bajfain, gOS io 



From Bajfain to Cbaoul, gos 7 



From Chaotd to D about ^ gos 12. 



From D about to Rcjapour, gos IO 



From Rcjapour to Mmgreta, go<5 9 



From Mmgreta to GW, gos 4 



In all from &»** to G04, gos . . . . . 6r 



The great danger which you run along the Coaft, is the hazard of falling into 



the hands of the Mahares, who are violent Mahumetans } and very cruel to the 



Chriftians. I law a bare-foot Carmelitc-Fmr who had been taken by thofe Pirats. 



This Friar, to get his ranfbm the fooner, they put to that kind of torture, that his 



right-arm was fhorter by one half then his left, and fo it was with one leg. The 



Captains do not give hove fix Crowns to every Souldierfor the whole fix months 



tbattfi y are uluallv our at Sea: Then the Souldiers may return home, and if 



fheir Z »tair "ill have them ifay longer, they muft allow 'em more pay. They 



feWom em 'taboeio or 2$ leagues at Sea, which is no great hazard of 



the Ye! el it retimes the tmuwps (hap them, and then they either hang 



'em Op prefently, or throw 'em over-board. Thefe Malavares carry fbmetimes 



200, fbmetimes 2jo men, and they (ail together in Squadrons of ten or fifteen 



Barques to attack a great Yellel, not caring a ruih for the great Guns. They come 



board and board io fuddenly, and caft fuch a quantity of Pots of Artificial Fire 



upon the deck, that if there be not fpeedy remedy appli'd, they will prefently do 



a world of mifchief. Generally our Seamen, knowing the cuftom of thefe Pirats, 



when they come within ken, prefently (hut up the Scuttles, and fill the deck with 



water, to hinder the Fire-Pots from doing execution. 



An Englifh Captain, whole name was Mr. Clark, , coming from Bantam to Su- 

 rat, not far from Coclnn, met a Squadron of thefe Mdvarv* confifting of U or 30 

 of thefe Barques. Who came board and board, and vigorbufly attack'd him. 

 The Captain feeing he could not withftand their firit Fury, put lire to fome Bar- 

 rels of Powder, and blowing up the deck, blew a great number of the Pirats into 

 the Sea. Nevertheless, the reft were nothing difcourag'd, but boarded the Ship 

 a fecond time. The Englifh Captain feeing there was no help, put his men into 

 two Shallops, and flaying behind in his Cabin, where the Pirats could nor enter fo 

 fuddenly, he let fire to a Train which he had laid, that reach'd to all the reft of 

 the Powder, and at the fame time leaping into the Sea, was taken up by his own 

 men. In the mean time the Ship being all a-fire, the Pyrats leapt into the Sea 

 alfo. But for all this, the two Shallops, wherein there were about forty EngUJh, 

 were taken by the reft of the Malvares, that were Frein-men } and I was then 

 at breakfaft with the EngUJh Prefident, Mr. EremcUn, when he receiv d a tetter 

 from Captain Clarke that he was a Slave to S amor in, who is the molt considera- 

 ble Kiiw all along the Pirats Coaft. The Prince would not leave the EngUJh m 

 the hands of thofe Scoundrels, knowing that they would have been in great dan- 

 cer of their lives, by reafon that above twelve-hunder'd Women had loit their 

 Husbands, in the two times that the Ship had been fird. However the King 



