Part III. travels into thel^J^lES. 
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The Bczz^ards or Market-places are in a great Street at the foot of the Hill-, 
and there it is that thofe Cottea-StufFs are made, which are called Baftas, Baftas. 
and which are fold in (o great plenty in the Indies. 
The Hill being high and hard to be mounted, it might be a very eafie 
.matter to put the fortrefs in a condition not to fear any Attack, but at pre- 
lent it is fo much flighted, that there are lèverai great breaches in the Walls 
to the Land fide , which no body thinks of repairing. In that Town 
there are Mofques and Pagodes , that's to fay , Temples of the Heathen, 
as well above as below. The River-water is excellent for whitening of 
Cloaths, and they are brought from all parts to be whitened there. There 
is little or no other Trade there, but of Agates -, but moft of thofe are 
Sold at Cambaye. There is great abundance of Peacocks in the Country 
about Baroche. The Dutch have a Fa6lor there for the quick difpatch Peacocks at 
and clearing at the Cuftom-houfe, the other forts of Cloaths that come ^'''■"'^^'e- 
from Amedabad and elfewhere, bccauie fince all Goods muft pay duties 
as they enter and come out of Baroche, there would always happen con- 
fuhon , if the care of that Vv^ere referred to the carriers who tranfport 
them. 
'Leaving Baroche, \ continued my Journey Northwards, to the little 
Town of Sourban, which is fcven Leagues dillant from Baroche, and then 
having croflcd the Brook Dader, and lèverai Villages, I arrived at Debca Deka. 
which lies on the fide of a Wood feven Leagues from Sourban. The In- 
habitants of this Town were formerly fuch as are called Merdi-Coura or 
Anthropophagi , Man-eaters, and it is not very many Years fince Mans ^"^^'"W^^" 
flefh was there publickly fold in the Markets' That place feems to be 
a neft of Robbers the Inhabitants who are for the moll: part Armed 
v/ith Swords , are a moft impudent fort of People : In what poftore fo- 
cver you be, they continually flare vou in the Face, and with fo much 
boldnefSj that let one fay what he pleafes to them, there is no making 
of them to withdraw : Paffengers that know them , are always upon 
their Guard, nay, and are obliged to carry a Lance with them, when 
they go to do their needs. 
Next day we parted from thence and went to Petnad, a little Town P^^^^t^- 
feven Leagues and a half from Debca, and arrived there, having firft 
paft the Gulf or River of Mai, where there is a Watch to fecure the 
Rode. We found in our way two great Tanejuiex, and a great number ^'^"î"^'^^- 
of Monkies of an extraordinary bignefs. Thefe Tanquiez. are Handing 
Ponds or refervations of Rain-water-, there are many of them in the 
Indies, and commonly there is great care taken in looking after them, 
becaufe Wells being rare in that Country , there is an extrcam need 
of thefe publick reiervatories, by reafon of the continual thirft which 
the heat caufes in all Animals there , and fome of them are as big as 
Lakes or large Ponds. 
Next we came to the Town of Soufentra, where we fay a very lovely account of 
Well, which I fliall not defcribe in this place, _ becaufe it isalmofthke theRoaïfrom 
to that of Amedabad, whereof I fhall fpeafc in its proper place. From surrat to ^- 
thcnce we went to Mader which is fix Leagues and a half from Petnad. medahad. 
Upon the Road we law an infinite number of Apes of all forts, not c>nemuil:go 
only upon the Trees in the Fields, but even thofe alfo by the way fide, ^"[e^^nd a-oi^* 
v/hich were not in the leaft afraid of any body. I feverall times en- fhe^Ri'ver'of 
deavoured to make them flic with my Arms, but they ftirr'd not, and T/j/^j-^' a league 
cried their pu pa like mad, which is, as I think, the houp houp of ^"^^^^^ffrom 
which Moniteur de la Boidaye fpeaks. Surrat. 
■' ^ There is a 
great Wartree four leagues îromSurrat where one may repofe. Kim a Rim-. Oucliffer a Town. Nerdaba a River 
are to be paft, and then onecomes to Baroche, lo leagues from Surrat. Sotirhan a Town; leagues from Baroche 
Dader zKïvQv ov Brook. Debca 7 leagues {rovn Sourban. A/^i'aRiver. 7 leagues and a half from ZJe^c/r* 
Soufentra a Town, Mader 6 leagues and ahalf from Pstnad. Matrons a River. 
We went next to Gitbag, five Leagues from Mader , we met a great Gitbag s 
many Colics, which arc a People of a Cafte or tribe of Gentiles, who leagues from 
•have no fixed Habitation , but wander from Village to Village , and 
carry all they have about with them. Their chief bufinefs is to pick 
and 
