Shells and other Trophies of the Sea. Here he gives a 
Hiftory of it how it came into the Poffeffion of the Effg' 
UJh^mh oi ihQ EaJl4ndia Cc^^ and of what impoit 
i is to them with refped: to their Trade, 
Then he hrveys CanonnCy an Ifland lyiug: nmr Bom- 
laim^ and there defcribes prodigious Works of Anriqui- 
ty cut out of the Rocks. From hence he vifits Bafcin^ 
a City of iht^Portugals^ which he defcribes with the' 
Renriarkables taken nonce of in his going and returning, 
among which, at Elephanto was an Idol Temple cut out 
of a Rock as rhejormer. 
Next he relates the Occurrences that he took notice of 
in his Journey with an EmbafTy fent to Sevagi, whofe 
refidcnce was on a very high Hill, caird, Ratree^ inacceP 
fible bat only by one narrow way. By the by he relates 
the Ceremonies of crowning the Raya. 
From hence he pafTes lo Swally^ the Port of Surat^ 
which he defcribes, and the Company's Fadory in that 
Place and takes notice of the Valour and Succefs of a 
Prefident there in repulfing the Power of Sevagi, and 
dates his Letrer from Surat^ fan. 15. 167I 
In his Third Letter he gives a more particular and more 
full Account of Surat^ and its Inhabitants, and firft takes 
^3o.tice of Mudelmen-Beggars, ready to do Mifchief, 
and of Scuman, or Soldiers being drunk with Sang mix- 
ed with Milk. Then he defcribes the other Inhabitants, 
their Houfes, Cuftoms, Heathen and Mahometan Rites^ 
their Way of Entertaining, Diet, Cloathing,Religious Ce- 
remonies, Marriages, Burials, \Sc, then the Vagabond 
Fak'ters^ or Holy Men, the Peft of the Place, then the 
Magiftrates, Mints, Markets, Fortifications, Soldiers, 
Mofchs, Caravanferas, Stables, &c. Without the Town, 
he defcribes the Tombs of the Engltfh, Dutch and Arme'^ 
wi^j^jj/v-jf^cy&.MuflelmenjPilgrimsjHeathens ; and here he 
mentions their /^^ji/^jOrHeathen Priefl;s,and their ftrange 
and 
