24 Travels into ^/^^ I N D I E S. Part III. 
The Sepulchre 
of a Dutch 
drinker. 
The Tombs of 
the Religious 
Gtiitilf. 
The place 
where Bodies 
arc burn:. 
Madeo, 
Btick whitened over with Lime -, and whilft 1 was there, there was one 
a building for a Dutch Commander, which was to coft eight thoufand 
Livres. Amongft the reft, there is one of a great drinker, who had been 
banifhed to the Jwi/Vi by the States General^ and who is faid to have been a 
Kinfman of the Prince of Orange : They have raifed a Monument for him 
is for other Pcrfons of note -, but to let the World fee that he could drink 
Ifoutly, on the top of his Pyramid there is a large Stone-cup, and one be- 
low at each corner of his Tomb -, and hard by each Cup there is the Fi- 
guirc of a Sugcr-loaf. When the Dutch have a mind to divert themfelves 
M that Monument, they make, God knows, how many Ragocs in thefe 
Cups, and with other leis Cups drink or eat what they have prepared in 
the great ones. 
The Rch'gious Gentils have their Tombs about two thoufand Paces be- 
yond the Dutch Burying-place. They are fquare, and made of Piailler ; 
they arc about two or three Foot high, and two Foot broad, covered fome 
v/ith a Dome, and others with a Pyramid of Piailler fomewhat more than 
three Foot high ^ on the one lide there is a littleWindow, through which one 
jiiay fee the top of the Grave -, and bccaufe there are two Soles of Feet cut 
upon them, fome have believ'd that the Fartias were interred with the 
Head down and the Feet upwards, but having enform'd my felf as to that. 
I learnt. 
that there was no fuch thing, 
and that the Bodies are laid in their 
Graves after the ordinary manner. 
The place where the Banians burn their dead Bodies, is by the River- 
fide, beyond the Burying-placcs ^ and v/hen they are confumcd, the Afhes 
are left there, on deiign, that they may be carried away by the Tapty^ be- 
caufe they look upon it as a Sacred River. They believe that it contri- 
butes much to the Salvation of the Soul of the deceafed, to burn his Body 
immediately after his Death, becaufe, (as they fay,) his Soul fuffcrs after 
the fcparation from the Body till it be burnt. It is true, that if they are 
in a place where there is no Wood, they tye a Stone to the dead Body, and 
throw it into the AVater, and their Religion allows them to bury it if 
there be neither Water nor Wood j but they are ftill perfwaded that the 
Soul is much happier when the Body hath been burnt. 
They burn not the Bodies of Children that die before they are two Years 
old, becaufe they are as yet innocent ; nor do they burn the Bodies of the 
Vartias nor Jogues^ who are a kind of Dervifhes, becaufe they follow the 
rite of Madeo^ who is one of thpir great Saints, and who ordered the Bodies 
to be interred. 
CHAP. XIV. 
Of diverfe Curiofities at Surrat. 
A f^ir Well. 
Towards the Englifli Burying-place there is a great Well -, a Banian 
made it for the convenience of Travellers, and it is of an oblong- 
fquare Figure, like the Well of Amedabad^ which I have delcribed. 
There are over it diverfe thin Brick- Arches, at fome Feet diftance one 
from another : Several Stairs go down to it, and the Light enters by the 
fpaces that are between the Arches \ fo that one may fee very clearly from 
the top to the bottom. On the outfide there is the Figure of a Red- 
face, but the Features are not to be difcinguiihed. The Indians fay, 
that it is the Pagod of Madeoy and the Gentils pay a great Dovotion 
to it. 
. Towards Daman-gate^ where the lovelieft Walk in all the Countrey be- 
gins, there is a Refervatory much eftcemed. That Gate is covered and 
encompaffed* 
