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and fourteen Pions for Jiimfelf, his Servants and Goods -, we were eight 
Franks in company, and in all Five and forty Men. We parted from Sur- 
r-ï? in the Evening, and encamped near theQoeens Garden, which is with- 
out Daman-G2Ltç-^ fo foon as we were got thimer, we fent to the Town for journey from 
what Provilions we wanted, for elfe we mute have fared hard during our Sun-at to ^iu- 
Journey. The Gentiles (who fell Provifions ) will neither furnifli Tra- ^^^K^'*^'^^' 
vellers with Eggs nor Pullets -, and inftead of ordinary Bread , there is no- 
thing to be got but ill baked Buns or Cakes , fo that one muft not fail to 
make Provilion of Bisket at Surrat. Trees. 
The Countrey from Surrat to Anrangeabad^ is extreamly diverfified ^ there ^"''•f' ^^"ê- 
are in it a great many Wars^ Manguiers^ Mabofva, ^liefou, Caboul^ and other 
Ibrts of Trees s and I faw the ^erz,eheray there alfo, which I have defcri- y^i' 
bed in my Book of Ter fia. ^ Q^rzeheray 
There are vaft numbers of Antelopes, Hairs and Partridges, here and fécond Vol. 
there in that Countrey; and towards the Mountains Merons^ or wild Cows, ^eronsM^A 
moft part of the Land is arable Ground -, and the Rice (wherewith the Fields 
are covered) is the bell: in all tht, Indies , efpecially towards N^o;)o«r<?, where Places of Camp 
it has an odoriferous Tafl:e,which that of other Countries has not. Cotton °" 
abounds th ;:rc alfo , and in many places they have Sugar-Canes , with Mills 
to bruife the Canes, and Furnaces to boyl the Sugar. ''gealad 
Barmly, a Bourg five Leagues from Surrat. Balor, a Village, 4 Leag, from Barnoly. Biaraa, Village, 3 Leag. and a 
half from B.-r/or. C^^rca a Village, 2 Leag. and a half from Biara. Naopoura a Town, (S Leag. £iom Chare a, 
§luanaponr a Village, 6 Leag from blaopeura. Pipelnar a Town, 6 Leag. from êiuanapour, Tarabat a Village , 
4 Leag. from P/pê/îi-tr. ^^r^w^î a Bourg, 4 Leag. and a halffrom r<ï;"iï^^f. Omrana z Vilhge, y Leag and a half 
from Seta7ia. Enquite'nqui, 6 heag. fvom Omrana. Deotcham zTown, 6 Leag- from Enquitenqui. The Sour, a 
Town, 6 Lca.g.{rom Deotcham. ^urangeabad, i Leag. {rom the Soar. 
Now and then one meets with Hills that are hard to be croflTed over, but 
there are lovely Plains alfo watered with many Rivers and Brooks. In this 
Road there are four Towns,and four or five and thirty Bourgs and Villages, 
pretty well Peopled .Tchoguts^or Guards of the High-Ways,are often to be met 
with here , who ask Money of Travellers, though it be not their due ; we 
gave tofomeand refufed others, but that lignifies no great matter in the 
whole. 
• In moft places Inhabited^ there are Pagods, and every now and then, we 
met with Waggons full of Gentiles, who were coming to perform their De- 
votions in them. The firfl Pagod ( 1 faw ) was by the lide of a great IVar ^ 
and before the Door of it, there was an Ox of Stone, which a Gentile (who 
fbake Verfian) told me was the Figure of the Ox, which ferved to carry their An Ox that 
God Ram. Wc found beiides, many other Pagods like to that , but we faw carried the 
otiicrs, which confiiled of one lingle Stone about fix Foot high, on which 
the Figure of a Man is cut in relief : There are alfo a great many Referva- 
toriss ind Cawanferas upon the Road, but we chofe rather to Encamp, than 
Lodg in them, becaufe of their naflrinefs. 
A" we were encamped near the Bourg Setana under Manguiers , not far ^^^^^^fl- Burg, 
diftant from a fmall River , which is alio called Setana, almoft mid way 
betwixt Surrat and Aurangeahad -, we met the Bilhop of Heliofolis , fo much ^^/^f ''^"^ °^ 
efteemcd in the Indies for his Piety and Zeal -, he had in company with him ^ ^"^^ 
Monfieur Champfon, and a Spani[h Cordelier ^ who had left the Biiliop of^j^j^^ 
Banit, with feveral other Church -men , who laboured in converting the j^^rl^^ ° 
Gentiles at Sia?fi. That Bifhop was going to Surrat , in order to return to 
France , from whence he hoped to bring back new Miffionaries with him -, 
and the Cordelier came from China , where he had lived fourteen Years -, 
we continually met Caravans of Oxen and Camels upon our Road,and fome Caravans ofa- 
I faw that came from Agra^ confifting of more than a thoufand Oxen load- ''"^^^ 
ed with Cotton-Cloath. At length , the eleventh of March we arrived at ^^^"'^ ^^^^^ 
Aurans^eabad , thrccfcore and fifteen Leagues from Surrat , which we Tra- the'^Capitai of 
yelled in a fortnight. Balagate. 
This great Tov/n (the Capital of the Province) has no Walls-, the Go- 
vernour (svho is commonly a Prince ) has his Refidence there , and King 
Auran-Z;b commanded there, as long as he did at Candich in the Reign of his 
Father. His firft Wife (whom he loved dearly) died in this Town ; as a 
L 2 Monument ; 
