Travels 111 India. Part. II. 



were very fmaH. The King and the King-maker were both alike. For no doubt 

 it could not but be a pleafant fight, to fee a Hollander s that had been only 

 the Cook of a Ship, crowning a miferable Pirat with thofe hands that had oft'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 fpoils of thofe diftreffed people 5 for contrary to the 

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

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

 without any regard to fex or modefty. 



The General being return d into Batavia, they fent a Governour to Cochin, 

 who to make the place the ftronger, demolifh'd 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 Prifon ; nor could they 

 drink either Wine, or Sury,. or Strong-water, by reafon of the great Impofts 

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

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

 Sous, than under the Hollander for ten. This Governour was fo fevere, that 

 he would banifh a man for the fmalleft fault in the world, to the Ifland of Çey- 

 lan, to a place where they made Brick, fometimes for five or fix years, fome- 

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

 one is banifh'd thither, though the fentence be only for a term of years, yet 

 the Exile never obtains his freedom afterwards. 



,j CHAP. XVII.- 



The fPaftage by Sea from Ormus to Maflipatan-. 



I departed from Gontron to Maflipatan the eleventh of May, 16 j 2, and wens' 

 aboard a great V MTel of the King of Golconda's, which is bound every year 

 from Perfia,foden with fine Calicuts, Ghites, or Calicuts painted with a Pencil,which 

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

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

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

 the Indians nor Perjians being expert in Navigation. In the Veffel where I was 

 aboard, there were but fix Dutch Mariner": at moft, but above a hundred Na- 

 tives. We failed out of the Per ft an Golf with a pleafing and favourable Gale ; 

 but we had not fail'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 fbmc 

 duys after, the Wind grew more violent, and the Sea more boift'rous ; fo 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 $ infomuchr 

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

 We pafs'd by the Maldives Iflands, but were not able to difcern 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 

 Veffel five and fifty Horfes, which the King of Perjia had fènt as a Pre/ènt to 

 the King of Golconda ; and about a hundred Merchants, Perjians and Armenians 

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

 there rofe a crofs Wind, fo violent, that the Water rowl'd in from Stern to 

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

 there was a Merchant that had two Bails of Rnjfia Leather, befides four or 

 Jive Sadlers that knew how to foW the Skins, who were very fèrviceable as well 



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