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three months. Nor had it beeB taken without the afliftance of certain Fre L 

 men, who had forfaken the fervkc of the D#rd>-G©mpany, by reafon of ill-ufao 

 They had alio (everal Englijh and Ztorf^-Cannoncers, with two or three Jtal 

 which mainly forwarded the fiirrender of that place. as * 



Gandicot is one of the itrongefr Cities in the Kingdom of CarHatica, It is fit 

 ted upon the point of an high Mountain 3 there berog but one afcent to it n 

 above twenty or five and twenty-foot-broad at moftj in fome places not abov* 

 fevcn or eight-foot-wide. On the right-hand of the way. which is cut out of 

 the Mountain, there is a mod hideous precipice ; at the bottom whereof runs 

 vaft River. Upon the top of the Mountain there is a final! plain, about a quart-! 

 of a league broad, and about half a league long. This is all lbw'd with Ri a > and 

 Millet, and water'd with many little Springs. The top of the pLain on the South- 

 fide, where the City is built, is encompaft with precipices, two Rivers running at 

 the bottom, which form the point. So that there is but one Gate to enter tnto 

 the City from the plain-fide? and that too fortiri'd with three good Walls of 

 Free-ftone, with Moats pav'd at the bottom with Free-hone - 3 ib that the beiieeed 

 had but only one quarter of the City to defend, containing about rive-hundcr'd 

 paces. They had but two Iron-Guns, the one carrying twelve-pound-Ball the 

 other eight. The one was planted upon the Gate, the other upon a point of a 

 kind of a Baftion. So that until the Nabob had found the way to mount his Can 

 non upon a very high place neer the City, he loir a great number of men by fe" 

 vera! (allies which the Befiegod made. The Raja that was within, was efteem'd 

 one of the bravcit and molt experience Captains that ever were amongit the Ido 

 laters : whereupon, the Nobab finding that the place was not to be taken unlefs he 

 could get up his Cannon to the top of that fteep afcent, fent for all the French- 

 men that were in the King's fervice, promifing to every one four months extraor- 

 dinary pay* if they could find a way to mount his Cannon upon the top of fucha 

 place ; wherein they had the good-hap to be very fuccesful. For they mounted 

 four pieces of Gannon, and were ib prosperous, as to hit the great Gun that was 

 planted upon the Gate, and render- it uuferviceable. At length, when they had 

 beaten down good part of the Wall of the City, the Befieged came to capitulate 

 and marca'd out of the Town upon very good Articles. The day we arriv'd alt 

 the Army was encamp'd at the foot of the Mountain, in a plain, through which 

 there ran a very fair River -, where the Nabob muirer'd his Cavalry and found 

 them m a very good condition. An ^/^-Cannoneer and an Italian fcc\ne> Mon- 

 fieur/W/*and my fe If pals by, guefs'd us to be Frar.gu? $h and becaufe it was 

 late, accofted us very civilly, and oblig'd us to fray with them all night. By them 

 we underftood that there was in the City a i-m;^-Engineer, wfaofe name was 

 Claudius Madle of Bowges, and that he was employ'd by the Nabob to caft fome 

 pieces of Cannon which the Nabob intended to Jcave in the City. 



The next-day we went into the City, and found out Maili/s Lodging having 

 been acquainted with him at BatavU • who informing the Nabob of our arrival 

 he prefently fent us Frovifion for our felves and our beafts. * ; 



The third day we went to wait upon the Nabob, who had pitch'd his Tents up- 

 on, that, part of the plain neer the place where the way is cut out of the Rock 

 We^nfonn'd him of the caufe of our coming, telling him that we had fome com- 

 modities that were rare, and worth the King's buying s but that we were unwil- 

 ling- to fiiew them to the King till he had feen, them ; believing it our duty to 

 render him that. rdpeft. The Nabob was very wcll-pleas'd with our Comple- 

 ment } and after he-had caus'd us to beprefented with Btttf, we took our leaves 

 ^ him, and return d. to our Lodgings, whither he fent to us two Bottles of 

 iT'T' °f S ? ck ' Hnd tfaeother of Sthirts, which is a rare thing in thatCountrey., 

 . ahe.fourth day we waited upon him again,and carried along with us fome Pearles 

 ol ah extraordinary weight, beauty and bignefs :, the leaft whereof weighed twenty 

 fourGaratts After he had vewd them and fhew'd them to fome of thT Lords that 

 were about him,he ask'd the price, which when we had fet him,he rwurn'd us our 

 Jewels and told ushe would confider of it. 



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