256 Mifcellanea Curiofa. Vol. IIL 



A Letter from the Eaft Indies, 

 of Mr. John Marflid to "Dr. 

 Coga ^ giving an Account of 

 the Keligion^ Rites^ Motions^ 

 Cufioms^ Manners of the Hea^ 

 ^ then ^riefls commonly called 

 ' Bramines. Communicated by 

 the Reverend Mr. Abraham de 

 la Pryme. 



Worthy Sir J 



THE laft tune that I had the happi- 

 nefs to be in your good Company^^nd 

 to partake of thofe Favours and Bleffings 

 that your Goodnefs was pleafecl liberally to 

 beftow upon me and our Companions, at 

 our departure, and as it were Exile from our 

 Native Land, does fb loudly call out for fome 

 ,recompence or other at our Hands, that I 

 cannot without the greateft Ingratitude ima- 

 ginable, let flip this (tho' fudden) oppor- 

 tunity of Writing unto you,and prefenting of 

 you at this time with what I underftand you 

 more value than all the Riches of the Eaft % 

 to wit, a few Specimens of the Knowledge of 

 thofe People whom we ftile Barbarians, Hea- 

 thens and Idolaters, which I have read in 



their 



