Part III Travels into ^/;(? I N D I E S. . 7 i 
CHAP. 3f Lll. 
Of the Vrovince of Candich. 
THe Province of Candich is to the South of Malva , and they who have "^'^^ Province 
reduced the Provinces, have icyned to it Berar , and what the /IJogul ^^^^^'^'^f^' 
^fleffes of Onx^?. Ihefe Countries are cf?- vait extent 5 full of populous 
Towns and Villages, and in all Moguhjtnn, few Countries ^ re fo rich us this, '^^^^'^.[^f 
The Mémoire I have of yearly Revciiiies, make:, ch; s Province yield the ^^ig'^-onfc^w- 
Mogul above leven and tvi^cnty Millions a year The Capital City of this duh. 
Province is Brampur -, it lies in the twenty eighth degree of Latitiide, about Brampour, the 
fourfcore Leagues diifant from Surrct. The Governour thereof is common- capital of 
ly a Prince of the Blood , and Auren-Zei? hath been Governour of it him- Cr.ndich. 
kit 
Here it was that the Sieurs de La BouUaye rrnd Bekr Envoy's from the A Q.uarrelthe 
French Eai- India Company . quarrelkd with the Bf^wi^im , to whom they ff^T/ ^ 
were recommended. VVnen they arrived ?t isramfour , tnele Bamans met b^.^^;. had with 
them with Bafons full of Sweet-men t - , and Kovptes in their hands. The z Banian. 
Gentlemen not knowing thecuitom o' riiC Countrey , Vvdiich is to offer Pre- 
fents to Strangers whom they erteem ; r nd imagining that the £ve and 
twenty or thirty Roupies that v; ere offered them, was a hgn that they 
thought them poor, fell into a Pafn 3n, railed at the Banians , and were a- 
bout to have beat them , which vvas like to have bred them trouble 
enough : if they had been v;ell iniorrncd ot the cuftom of the Coiintrey , 
they would have taken theMoney^ and then returned fome fmall Prefent to 
the Banians-^ and if they had noc thought it fit to make a Prefent , they 
might have given it back ago in aftet they had received it -, or if they would 
nôt take it, touch it at ieaft with their Fingers ends, and thanked them for 
their cb/'ûky' 
I came to Brampour in the worft weather iiiiaginable -, and it had Rained 
fo excefiively, that the low Srreets of that Town were full of water , and 
feemed to be fo many P.ivers. hrawpour is a great Town {landing upon The Ground of 
Very uneven ground -, there arc fome Streets very high, and others again fo Brawpour. 
low, that they look like Ditches when one is in the higher Streets ^ thefe 
inequalities of Streets occur fo often, that they caufe extraordinary Fatigue. 
The Houfes are not at all handfom, becaule moll of them are only built of Houfw of 
Earth however, they are covered with Varniflied Tiles , and the various ^''^"^P""^' 
Colours of the Roofs , mingling with the Verdure of a great many Trees 
of different kinds, planted on all hands , makes the Prolped of it pleafant 
enough. There are two Curvanferas in it, one appointed for lodging Stran- 
gers, and the other for keeping the Kings Monev , which the Trcafurers 
receive from the Province -, that for the Strangers is far more fpacious than 
the other, it is iquare, and both of them front tov^rds the Metdan. That 
is a verv larue place , for it is at lead Five hundred paces long, and Three 
hundred an5 fifty broad -, but it is not pleafant, becaufc it is full of ugly 
huts , where the Fruiterers fell their Fruit and Herbs. 
The entry into the Caftle is from the Meidan , and the chief Gate is be- The Gaftle of 
twixt two large Tov/ers -, the Walls of it are fix or feven Fathom high -, they Brampour. 
have Battlements ail round , and at certain intervals there are large round 
Towers which jet a great way out , and are about thirty paces Diamètre, 
This Caftle contains the Kings Palace , and there is no entring into it with- T'he Kings Pa- 
ojt permiflîon -, the Tapty running by the Eafi fide of that Town, there is 
one whole Front of the Caft-Ie upon the River- fide , and in that part of it 
the Walls are full eight Fathom high, becaufe there are pretty neat Galle- 
ries on the top, where tlie King (wnen he is at Brampour) comes to look a- 
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