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as occafion requires, thirty or forty times, even as often as any ill- blood comes 

 forth ; as they did by me one time that I was at Shy at. Butter and flefh is very 

 dangerous to them that are fick, and many times cofts them their lives. Formerly 

 they made feveral forts of well-tafted diet for thofe that recoverd : Now they 

 ferve the Patient only with young Beef-broth, and a dim of Rice. Ufually the 

 poorer fort that recover their health, complain of drowth, and call for water. 

 But they that look after them, being only Blacks, or Mongrels, a fort of covetous 

 and pittilefs people, will not give them a drop, unlefs they put Money in their 

 hands ; and to colour their wickednefs, they give it them by ftealth, pretending 

 what they do to be againft the Phyfitian's order. As for Sweet-meats and Pre- 

 ferves, there is no want of them ; but they are not a diet which contributes over- 

 much to the reftoring of decaid ftrength, efpecially in thofe hot Co untreys, where 

 the body requires rather cooling and refrefhing nourifhment. 



I have forgot one thing in reference to their more frequent bloodlettings than 

 among us Europeans. Which is., that to bring their colour again, and to reftore 

 them to perfect health, they order the Patient to drink for twelve days together 

 three glaffes of Cow's Urine - } one in the morning, another at noon, and another at 

 night. But in regard it is a very naufeous fort of drink, the Patient fwallows as" 

 little as he can, how defirous foever he may be of his health. They learnt this 

 remedy from the Idolaters of the Countrey ; and whether the Patient will take 

 it or no, they never let him ftir out of the Hofpital, till the twelve days are ex- 

 pir'd wherein he ought to drink it. 



CHAP. XIV. 



What the Author did, during his (lay at Goa, the laji time he went 



thither m the year 1648. 



TW O days before I departed from Mlngrela for Goa, I wrote to Monfieur 

 St. Amant, who was Engineer, to fend me a Man of War, for fear of the 

 Malvares which are upon the Coaft, which he immediately did. I parted from 

 Mlngrela the 20th of fanuary 1648 and arYiv'd at Goa the 2<$th. And in regard 

 it was late, I ftaid till the next morning before I went to vifit the Vice-Roy, Don 

 Thilip de Mafcarcgnas, who had formerly been Governor of Ceylan. He made 

 me very welcome, and during the two months that I tarri'd at Goa, he fent to me 

 a Gentleman five or fix times, who brought me ftill to the Powder-Houfe, which 

 was without the City, where he often us'd to be. For he took great delight in 

 levelling Guns, wherein he ask'd my advice, efteeming very much a Piftol very 

 curioufly and richly inlaid, which I prefented him at my arrival. This Piftol thé 

 Frencb-ConM at AUppo gave me, the fellow of it being unhappily loft: for elfe 

 the Pair had been prefented by the French-Nation to the Bajha, who might then 

 have boafted himfelf the Mafter of the faireft and beft-made pair of Piftols in all 

 AJîa. The Fice-Roy admits no perfon whatever, no not his Children to fit at his 

 Table. But there is a little partition in the Dining-room, where there is a Cloath 

 laid for the Principal Officers, as is ufual in the Courts of the German-?fmcee. 

 The next day I went to wait upon the Arch-Bifhop, and the next day after I de- 

 fignd to have vifited the Inquifitor ; but I underftood by one of his Gentlemen 

 that he was bufy, writing into Portugal 5 there being two Ships ready to weigh 

 Anchor, that only ftaid for his difpatches. After the Ships were (et fail, he fent 

 the fame Gentleman to tell me that he expected me at the Inquifition-Houfe, 

 about two or three in the afternoon. I fail'd not to go thither at the time pre- 

 fix'd. When I came, a Page brought me into a large Hall, where after I had walk'd 

 a quarter of an hour, an Officer came and carri'd me into the Chamber where the 

 Inquifitor was. After I had paft through two Galleries, and fome Chambers I en- 

 ter'd into a little Chamber where the Inquifitor fat at the end of a great Table 

 like a Billiard-Table, which, as well as the Chairs and Stools in the Chamber, was 



cover'd 



