Travels in India. 



Part IL 



when the Matter has well-cleans'd the one fide, he commands the Elephant to 

 turn the other, which the beaft immediately does j and when both fides are 

 well-waftYd, he comes out of the River, and ftays a-while upright upon the 

 bank- fide to dry himfelf. Then comes the Mafter with a pot full of fome red or 

 yellow colour, and ftreaks the beaft in the forehead, about the eyes, upon the 

 breaft, and all behind, rubbing him afterwards with Oil of Coco's to ftrengthen 

 the nerves 5 and fome when all is done, he^aftensa gilt-Pkte upon their fore- 

 heads. 



The fifteenth, the chief Phyfitian fent for us, and return'd us our bags again, 

 feal'd with the King's Signet, wherewith his Majefty had feal'd them after he had 

 look'd upon them- He demanded the price ; which we told him: Whereupon, 

 an Eunuch that ftood by him, and wrote down every thing, wondring at the high- 

 price of the Pearls, told us that we took the King of Golconda's Courtiers for 

 perfons that had neither knowledg nor judgment ; and that he faw every day 

 things of greater value brought to the King. I briskly retorted upon the 

 Eunuch, that he was better skill'd in the price of a young Slave, than the value 

 of a Jewel } and fo faying, we put up our Pearls, and return'd to our Lodg- 

 ing. The next day we fet out from Golconda for S»rat } in which Road there is 

 nothing confiderable but what I have already defcrib'd, only this is to be re- 

 member'd, that we were not gone above five days journey from Golconda, but 

 the King s who had not heard in two days after we were gone, what I had re- 

 torted upon the Eunuch, fent four or five Horfe-men after us with Orders, if 

 they overtook us, to bring us back : but in regard we were got one days 

 journey into the Territories of the Mogul before one of the Horfe-men over- 

 took us, (for the reft ftaid upon the Frontiers of the tvvo Kingdoms $ ) I, that 

 knew the humour of the Countrey very Well, made anfwer for my felf and 

 Companion, that at that time our bufmds would not permit us; and that there- 

 fore we begg'd in moft humble manner his Majefty's pardon j and after- 

 wards I made my Companion allow my reafons. 



Being arriv'd at Sttrat, Monfeur de Jardin dy'd of an overflowing of choler : 

 And I made a full account to have gone to Agra to Sha-jehan who then reign'd. 

 But at the fame inftant the Nabab, $ba-Eft-Kan t the King's Brother-in-Law, 

 and Governor of the Province of Gxaerat, fent one of the principal Officers of 

 his Houfe to me from Amadabat, to tell me he underftood I had fome extraor- 

 dinary jewels to fell j for which reafon he would be glad to fee me, and that 

 he would pay me as much for them as the King mould do. I receiv'd this 

 MeiTage while Sieur de fardin lay fick, and the ninth day after his death I got 

 to Amadabat i and Ipake with the Nahab. Now in regard he was a man that 

 underftood Jewels perfectly well, we prefently came to an agreement : fo that 

 we had no difpute together, but about the quality of the Coin to be paid. 

 He allow'd me two forts to choofe, Roupies of Gold, or Roupies of Silver : 

 but the Prince feeming to intimate to me that he mould not be well-pleas'd to 

 let fuch a Sum in Silver be feen to go out of his Houfe, he vvifh'd I would 

 rather accept my payment in Roupies of Gold, that made not fuch a great 

 heap. Î confented to his defire ; and he lhew'd me very fair Gold, and many 

 Roupies, that had not feen the Sun in a long time. But in regard the price 

 currant of a Roupy of Gold,is not above fourteen Roupies of Silver,and for that he 

 would have had me taken my Roupies at fourteen and a half, or at leaft for 

 fourteen and a quarter, it had like to have lpoil'd our bargain j for I gave him 

 to underftand, that in fo large a fum, it would not quit coft to lofe a fourth 

 part in every Roupy of Gold. At length to pleafe him, I was fore'd to take 

 the Gold at fourteen Roupies of Silver and an eighth part. Thus a Prince 

 .©thcrwife magnificent and generous, yet in matter of buying and felling, 

 / would needs approve himfelf to be a good Husband. While I ftay'd at Ama- 

 dahat, he fent me every day to my Lodging four Silver Plates of Pilaw, and 

 other excellent Dyet } and one day that the King had fent him as many Apples 

 as ten or twelve men could carry, he fent me as many as for their rarity at 

 Amadabat„ were worth three or four hundred Roupies. Befides all this, he 

 gavç me a compleat Habit of Honour, with a Sword and a Cangiar, worth a 

 Êlpjfand Roupies 5 and refolving alfo to give me a Horfe, he ask'd me what 



