I 
THE 
THIRD PART 
OF THE 
TRAVELS 
O F 
r. de Thevenot, 
CONTAINING 
The Relation of Indofla?i, the Ne0 Moguls, 
and of other People and Countries of the 
hdies. 
BOOK I 
CHAP. I. 
I Set out from Balfora in. the Ship Hofewel^ the fixth of Novem- 
ber ^ \66^. fix Days before the beginning of the Monfon^ and the 
tenth oi January i666, arrived at the Bar of Surrat ^ fo that I had Bar of Sunat. 
above tvs^o Months Voyage of it. That place which is about fix 
French Leagues from Surrat^ is called, the Bar, becaufe of the ma- 
ny Sand-banks that hinder great Ships from entring the River, be- 
fore they be unloaded -, and the proper feafon for Sailing on the Indian-Sea, 
is called MmJJon or Monfon. by corruption of MouJJem. I have mentioned Monfin, 
in the Second Part of my Travels, that that feafon wherein there is a con- 
fiant Trade-Wind upon that Sea, begins commonly at the end of O^ober ^ 
that it lafts to the end of April^ and that that is the time to go from Verjîa 
to the Indies^ if one would avoid the Tempefts. 
Next Day, being the Eleventh, about half an hour after two a Clock in 
the Morning, 1 went with the reft of the Paffengers into a Boat^ and at 
Eight at Night we arrived before Surrat^ near to the Cuftom-houfe, where 
coming to an Anchor, I paft the Night in the Boat ; and next Day, the 
twelfth of Jaauary^ about ten of the Clock in the Morning the Cuftom- 
houfe being open, our Boat upon thefignal given, put in to Land as near 
