5 2 Travels in India. Part II. 



Glafs of Wine, mixing fbme of the River-water with it j which caus'd a griping 

 in our bellies : But our Servants that drank it alone, were worfe tormented than 

 we. The Hollanders, who have an Houle upon the Bank of Ganges, never drink 

 the water of this River, until they have boil'd it. But for the natural Inhabitants 

 of the Countrey, they are fb accuftom'd to it from their youth, that the King 

 and the Court drink no other. You mall fee a vaft number of Camels every 

 day, whofe bufmefs only it is to fetch water from the Ganges. 



The jtb, I came to Halabas, coftes 8 

 Halabas is a great City, built upon a point of Land where Ganges and Gé- 

 miné meet. There is a fair Caftle of hew'n Stone, with a double Moatj where 

 the Governour refides. He is one of the greateft Lords in India ; and being 

 very fickly, he has always about him ten Perfian Phyficians. He had alfb in 

 his fervice, Claudius Maille of Bourges, who practifes Chyrurgery and Phyiick 

 both together. This was he that advis'd us not to drink of Ganges Water, 

 which would put us into a loofenefs j but rather to drink Well-wuter. The 

 chief of thefe Perfian Phyficians, whom this Governour hires with his Money, 

 one day threw his Wife from the top of a Battlement to the ground $ prompt- 

 ed to that aft of cruelty , by fome jealoufies he had entertain d. He thought 

 the fall had kill'd her, but fhe had only a Rib or two bruis d -, whereupon the 

 Kindred of the Woman came and demanded juftice, at the feet of the Gover- 

 nour. The Governour fending for the Phyfician, commanded him to be gone, 

 refolving to retain him no longer in his fervice. The Phyfician obey'd , and 

 putting his maim d Wife in a Pallancjuin, be fet forward upon the Road with 

 all his Family. But he was not gone above three or four days journey from 

 the City, when the Governour finding himfèlf worfe than he was wont to be 

 lent to recall him ; which the Phyfician perceiving, ftab'd his Wife, his four 

 Children, and thirteen female Slaves, and return'd again to the Governour, who 

 (aid not a word to him, but entertain d him again into his fervice. 



The eighth day I crofs'd the River in a large Boat, having ftay'd from morn- 

 ing till noon upon the bank-fide, expecting Monlieur MaUle 3 to bring me a Pafs- 

 port from the Governour. For there ftands a Dercga upon each fide of the 

 River, who will not fufFer any perfon to pafs without leave -, and he takes no- 

 tice what fort of Goods are tranfported ; there being due from every Waggon 

 four Roupies., and from every Coach one ; not accounting the charge of the 

 Boat, which you muft pay befide. The fame day I went to Sadaul-ferail x coites 16 

 The ninth, to Takedel-fera, coftes lo 

 The tenth, to Bonraki-fera, coftes io 

 The eleventh, to Banarou, coftes i© 

 Banarou is a large City, and handfomly built $ the moft part of the Hoiifès 

 being either of Brick or Stone, and higher than in any other Cities of India 5 

 but the inconveniency is, that the Streets are very narrow. There are many 

 Inns in the Town ; among the reft, one very large, and very handfomely builr. 

 In the middle of the Court are two Galleries, where are to be fold Calicuts, 

 Silks, and other forts of Merchandife. The greateft part of the Sellers, arc 

 the Workmen themfèlves -, fo that the Merchants buy at the firft hand. Thefe 

 Workmen, before they expofe any thing to fale, muft go to him that has the 

 ftamp, to have the Kings Seal fet upon their Linnen and Silks j otherwife they 

 would be fin'd, and lambafted with a good Cudgel. This City is fcituatcd 

 upon the North fide of Ganges, that runs by the Walls, and into which there 

 falls alfo another River, fome two Leagues upward toward the Weft. In Banarou 

 ftands one of the Idolaters principal Pagods, whereof I fhall fpeak in my fécond 

 Book, when I come to treat of the Religion of the Banians. 



About five hundred paces from the City Northward, there is a Mofyuee> 

 where are to be feen many Mabomttan Sepnkhers 5 whereof fome are very 

 curious pieces of Architecture. The faireft are every one in the middle of a 

 Garden enclofed with Walls, wherein there are Holes fome half a foot fquare, 

 through which Paffengers may have a fight of the Tomb within. The moft 

 confiderable of all is as it were a four fquare Pedeftal, every fquare whereof 

 is forty paces wide. In the midft of this Platform rifes a Column thirty-two 

 or thirty-five foot high, all of a piece, which three rae.n can hardly embrace. 



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