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through the Town, paffed at length before the Governours Hoiife, where 
they continued, as they had done all along the Streets where the Cavalcade 
went, to throw Fire-works for fome time, and then the Bridegroom retired. 
Sometime after, Bonefires prepared on the R iver-fide before the Cover- Bonefires. 
nours Houfe were kindled ^ and on the Water, before the Caftle there were 
fix Barks full of Lamps burning in tires \ about half an hour after ten thefe 
Barks drew near the Houfe, the better to light the River : And at the 
fame time, on the fide of Renelle^ there were Men that put Candles upon Re»e/ie, & 
the Water, which floating gently without going out, were by an Ebbing- Town. ' 
Tide carried towards the Sea! RemHe is an old Town about a quarter of a 
League diftant from Surrat : It ftands on the other fide of the Ta^ty^ and 
though it daily fall into ruin, yet the Dutch have a very good Magazin 
there. ' . 
There were five little artificial Towers upon the Water-fide full of Fire- 
lances and Squibs, which were fet on fire one after another -, but feeing 
the Indian Squibs rnakenonoife no more than their Fire-lances, all they 
did, was to turn violently about^ and dart a great many flreaks of Fire in- 
to the Air, fome ftreight up like Water-works, and others obliquely, re- 
prefenting the branches of a Tree of Fire : They put fire next to a Ma- 
chine which feemed to be a blew Tree when it was on fire, becaufe there 
was a great deal of Brimftone in the Fire-work : After that, upon a long 
Bar of Iron fixed in the ground they placed a great many artificial 
Wheels, which play'd one after another and fpread abundance of Fire ; 
They alfo burnt divers Pots full of Powder, from which large flakes of 
Artificial Lightning glanced up in the Air -, and all this while, Scjuibs and 
Serpents flew about in vaft numbers -, and with them many Fire-lances, 
in which was a great deal of Camphire, that yielded a whitifli dazling 
flame. 
Thefe Fire-works play'd alrhoft aii hour, and when they were over, the 
main bufinefs Was performed. Thé Maid was married in her Fathers 
Houfe by a aud about two of the Clock in the Morning was con- , 
duded upon an Elephant to her Husbands Lodgings. The Wedding. 
There were a great many Dancers, Turriblers, and players at fleight of Dancers, jug- 
Hand in the open places -, but they aded nothing, as I could fee,, but what lers. 
was dull, and yet I was advantageoufly placed in Windows to examin 
their play, being defirous to fee, if what was told of their dexterity was 
true -, but I found nothing extraordinary in it, and I fliould have had a 
bad Opinion of the Indian Dances, if I had not met with nimbler after- 
wards in rriy Travels there. 
The firft time I faw Hermaphrodites was thete. It was eafie to diflin- Hcrmaphro- 
guiih them, for feeing there is a great niiinber in that Town, and all over 
the Indies y I was enform'd before hand, that for a mark to know them 
by, they were oblig'd under pairi of Corredion, to wear upon their 
Heads a Turban like Men, though they go in the habit of Women. 
C H A P. XIIÏ. 
Of Èuryi?ig-p laces ^ and the Burning of Dead 
Bodies. 
THe Burying-places of Surrat are without the Town, about three or Burying- pia- 
four hundred Paces from Barocbe-Gate. The Catholicks have their ces. 
own apart -, and fo liave the Englifh and Dutch, as well as fome Religious ^j^^^^ ujthrrs 
'Indians. The Englifh and Dutch adorn their Graves with Pyramids of cftheTngiin" 
Brick and Dutch, 
