A Def crip ion of the Coafls of 
E.tldxus. 
Caravans 
over Alep 
po a.nd A 
lexandud. 
Filgr'ims 
goine to 
Mocha. 
Ricks of 
Mocha. 
Anclmag 
many. 
of both Sexes taken ia the Levant^ or 
thereabouts, being generally Grecians^ 
Hungarians, oi of the iOe ot Cypnu ^ ot 
ail which they pay lo per Cent. Cuitom. 
The fame Ship fails back again the firft of 
January, laden with Spices, Indigo, fine 
Callico's, Turbants, and fuch like Indian 
Commodities. 
Behdes this, there comes every year in 
March a Caffila or Caravan, conlifting 
commonly of 1600 Camels, the Mer- 
chants being for the nioft part Turks., 
Arabians and Armenians thefe come by 
the way of Aleppo and Alexandria hither, 
• and fpend commonly two Months in their 
■ whole Journy, becaiife they travel not a- 
bove three or four Dutch Leagues in a 
day. They bring along with them twilled 
Silk, Gold Wire, red Coral, Cinabar, 
Salfron, Myrrhe, divers forts of fmall 
Wares, Needles, Speftacles, Kniv^es, Scif- 
fars, Looking-glalTes, &c. This Caravan 
leaves the place again in December, loaden 
with all forts of Indian Commodities, 
and thus fpcnds near a twelve month in 
their whole Journy, 
At Cayro you fee a Vafl; multitude of 
Pilgrims towards the beginning of the 
year, who take the conveniency of this 
Caravanto travel to Mocha, eight Leagues 
from v»/ hence lies Medina, whei'e U the 
Tomb of Mahomet, which is thus yearly 
vifited by betwixt 30000 and 40000 Pil- 
grims. 
Mocha has been fo rich for many years 
paR-, thatinCuftoras and Taxes it pays 
no lefs than 200000 Reals, or Pieces of 
Eight every year to theG'r^W(iS7^K/o}',being 
one of the largefl: and molt confiderable 
places under the Jurifdiclion of the BalTa 
of Tcmak. The Governour of the City 
fits fometiraes in Perfon at the Cuftom- 
houfe vidting the Packs and Chefls, he 
having a certain allowance out of every 
Chefl: or Pack. All Indian Ships coming 
to an Anchor here are oblig'd to pay, 
befides the ordinary Cuftoms, Anchorage- 
rnony, according to their Bulk, from 10 
to 50 Reals, which with fome other Ex- 
adions makes the whole amount to 1 5 
per Cent. The Turks here have alfo ano- 
ther Invention of fqueezing fome Mony 
out of the Moorifl] Nachodes.^ or Officers 
of the Ships ; for the Governor having 
fumraon'd them immediately after their 
arrival to appear in his Prefence, they 
are condufted thither in great State, at- 
tended by his Drums, Pipes, &c. and be- 
ing recondufted to their Lodgings, the 
Clothes are taken away again. The fame 
is repeated afterwards juft before their 
departure, when tliey are recondui^ed to 
their Boats ^ and their Clothes being 
taken oft" again, each Officer is obligM to 
pay for this mock Drefs 20 Or 25 Reals 
each time. 
No fooner are the Moorif] Ships come 
into the Roads after they have dropt their 
Anchor, but they muft carry their Rudder ^"j-^'^^ ., 
and Sails afhore, and unload the whole '^''^ 
Cargo of the Ship (whether they fell it km: ^ht a- 
or not ) of which they are obliged to pay jlon: 
the fnll Cuftoms. After they are quite 
unloaden, they give a Signal with a Can- 
non for the Governor or his Deputies to 
come aboard, to fee whether any thing 
be lefc behind and then they have liber- 
ty to fell. 
In the Spring the Portuguefes come hi- 
ther with their Ships from Goa, Goga, 
and other places ; their Cargo is common- 
ly Indigo, Sarcaa, Callico's, Sail-cloth, all Traffick € 
forts of GufUratte Stuffs and Clothing, the Portu- 
Tobacco, Rice, and Medicines moft of 
which Commodities are fold to the Turky 
CaraVans, except the Rice and Tobacco, 
which is confum'd in the Country. They 
carry back Reals or Pieces of Ei^ht, 
Golden Ducats, a certain Root ufed by 
the Indians in dying red. A little before, 
or about the fame time, ufed alfo to come 
to Mocha the Ships of Daman, Cambaja 
and the Malabar Coaft, loaden with Pep- 
per, Clothings of Cambaja and Coroman- 
dtl., AUcgias, Taffacelas, red and whife 
Cajfen, red Jeta^, Canekyns, Baflas, fine 
Turbants, white and blue Girdles, paint- 
ed Callico's, Rice, Tobacco, coarfe and 
fine Porcelain, in lieu of which they 
carry back Horfes, Railins, Almond^, 
Camlets, Elephants Teeth of Sojfala, red 
Roots for dying, which grow only in 
Arabia, Chauru or Coffee-berries. Befides 
thefe, the Inhabitants of Achin, of Paty, 
and other places on the Coail of Melinda, 
trade hither ; they commonly fet fail 
from home in February, or beginning of 
Adarch, and return from Mocha about 
Augujl, to take the conveniency of the 
Aloujjon. 
The want of good Water and Fuel, Water and 
which the Ships much purchafe here at Fuel fcarce 
a dear rate, is a great defed in Adocha : '^^ ^^ocha. 
However, not far from the City lies a 
fmall Ifle, where the Englifh ufed to lay 
np and careen their Ships ^ here you may 
have Provifions for old Clothes in abun- 
dance, as likewife Fuel and Water e- 
noughj whence it is evident that the 
Trade of Suratte, Agra, Mocha and Lihjry 
( a City feated on the Red Sea at 14 deg. 
50 min. fortified with four round Bafti- 
ons, and adorn'd with three Temples) 
is one of the moil confiderable in thofe 
parts y 
