Travels in India. Part. II, 



,-ere very ffnall. The King and ttie King-maker were both alike. For no doubt 

 it could not but be a plea&nt light, to fee a HolUruLr, that had been only 

 the Cook of a Ship, crowning a miserable Pirat with thole hands that had oit'ner 

 handled a Ladle than a Sword, 



In the mean time the Ships that carried the Inhabitants of Cochin to Goa 

 return'd laden with the (polls of thole diltrelled people ; for contrary to the 

 Articles of Capitulation, the Hollanders were no looner out at Sea, but they 

 took from thofe poor Creatures whatever they had, rilling both men and women, 

 without any regard to lex or modelty. 



The General being return d into BatavU, they fent a Governour to Coch\ 

 who to make the place the ftronger, demoliuYd a great part of the City. But 

 this Governour us'd the greateft rigor imaginable, even towards the Soldiers; 

 he fhut them up in the City as if they had been in a Priion 5 nor could they 

 drink either Wine, or S/trjr, or Strong-water, by reafon of the great Impoflj 

 which he laid upon them. (Surj is a drink which flows from the Palm-trees.) 

 So that when the Portugucfes kept Cochin, men might live better for five or fix 

 Sous, than under the Hollander for ten. This Governour waj„(o ievcre, that 

 he would banifh a man for the fmallelf. fault in the world, to the Illand of CV;- 

 Idn, to a place where they made Brick, fomctimes for five or fix years, fbme- 

 times as along as the party liv'd. For it is oftentimes obferwd, that when any 

 one is banihYd thither, though the ferjtence be only for a term of years, yet 

 the Exile never obtains his freedom afterwards. 



CHAP. xvn. 

 The Taffige by Sea from Ormus to Maflipatan. 



I departed from Gomron to Majli pat an the eleventh of May, 165-2, and wen* 

 aboard a great Veiled of the King of Golcond^.'s, which is bound every year 

 from 7^/;^,laden with fine Calicuts, Chites, or Calicuts painted with a Pcncil,which 

 makes them much more beautiful and dearer than thofe which are printed. 

 The Holland Company are wont to allow to thofe Velfels which belong to any 

 of the Kings or Princes of India, a Pilot, and rwo or three Gunners ; neither 

 the Indians nor Perfians being expert in Navigation. In the Veflel where I was 

 aboard, there were but fix Dutch Mariners at molt, but above a hundred Na- 

 tives. . We failed out of the Perfian Golf with a pleating and favourable Gale j 

 but we had not (ail'd very far before we found the Sea very rough, and the 

 Winds at South-Weft, fo violent, though full in our Stern, that we were not 

 not able to carry out more than one fmall Sail. The next day, and for iome 

 days after, the Wind grew more violent, and the Sea more boiit'rous j ib that 

 being in the fixteenth Degree, which is the elevation of Goa, the Rain, the 

 Thunder, and Lightning, render'd the Tempeft the more terrible ; infomuch 

 that we could not carry out any other than our top-fail, and that half furPd. 

 We pais'd by the Maldives Iflands, but were not able to dilcern them, befides 

 that the Ship had taken in very much water in the Hold. For the Ship had 

 lain five months in the Road of Gomron, where if the Mariners are not very 

 careful to wafh the Planks that lye out of the water, they will be apt to gape, 

 which caufes the Ship to leak when fhe is loaden. For which reafon the Hol- 

 landers wafh the outfide of their Ships morning and evening. We had in our 

 V flel five and fifty Horfes, which the King of Perfia had fent as a Prefent to 

 tne King of Golconda; and about a hundred Merchants, Perfians and Armenians 

 together, who were Traders to India. One whole day and night together 

 there role a .crofs Wind, ib violent, that the Water rowl'd in from Stern to 

 Stern, ana the mifchief was, that our Pumps were nought. By good fortune 

 there was a Merchant that had two Bails of Rujfia Leather, betides four or 

 five Sadlers that knew how to fow the Skins, who were very ferviceable as weli 



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