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Our Dutch VefTels generally arrive ratte taking always care to fend their rxTL^ 
here from B^tavia about the end of Ships into Perfm in January^ or about the Bald^uc 
ylugufl, in Oiloher^ or beginning of No- middle of February at farthefl, that they ^-/^-nj 
wmi^er, and fometimes towards the middle may be at Batavia before the end of 
of December : The Dutch Fadtors at Su- March. 
CHAP. IV, 
Of what confequence the Traffick of Suratte is. A particular Defcription of the 
City of Mocha, and of its peculiar Cufloms. The City of Agra, and its 
Strength. The Defcent of the Great Mogul, his Pomp and Riches. 
OF what Confequence the TrafOck of 
Suratte is to the Dutcbj they have 
been fufficiently made fenfible by their 
Fadors ever fince i6\6. The chief 
Commodities to be vented here, are, 
Lead, Quick-filver, Cinabar, Ivory, Tin, 
Copper, Cumeta's, Cloves, Nutmegs, 
Mace, Pepper, Porcelain, ire. And this 
Traffick is the m.ore conliderable in re- 
fped of the Communication it maintains 
with our other Faftories in thofe parts, 
with A^rajMochajUnd divers other places 
upon the Coaft of the happy Arabia, 
where our Traffick feems to be well efta- 
blifh'd, provided we take care to live in 
good Correfpondence with thofe Nations, 
which mull be maintained by all poffible 
means, by avoiding fuch things as tend to 
the Dilfolution thereof. Amongft thefe 
Some Rs' the feizing of the M)on/Z) Ships has feveral 
marks up- times brought our Traffick into no fmall 
r ■ Jeopardy, as it happen'd 1621. when 
thtepal-ts. ^'i^P^ Samfon and Wefos having 
'made Reprifals upon forae Moori/h Vedels, 
our Trade into Arabia was quite inter- 
rupted, and likely to have been quite 
loft. And we run the fame danger 1 (528. 
after the Yacht thsGrottenbroeck had taken 
a Ship of Gufuratte upon the Coaft of 
Coromandel ^ and tho our late Seizure 
happen'd not to prove much to our dif- 
advantage, yet can't we at all times pro- 
mife our felves the fame fuccefs, it being 
certain, that tho the Moors court our 
Friendffiip, yet are they on the other 
liand very ftubborn, and not eafily re- 
coacil'd. 
Another thing abfolutely requifite for 
the carrying on of the Trade here, is, 
the King's Finnan, or Patent, to keep the 
avaritious Governours of Cambaja, Su- 
ratte, Brochia, and other places, in awe j 
befides, that the Portuguefc Priefts are al- 
v/ays bufy to create an ill Opinion of us 
in the A^oor$ : They muft: be carefully 
watch'd in their Meafures and Weights, 
without which they will play you the 
fame Game as Godjanifan and Godjaajfan 
did many years ago to Sir Henry Middle- 
ton, an Englijh Knight, who put them 
in Irons aboard his Ship till they had 
given him full fatisfaftion. 
Our Traffick to Mocha is likewife of 
great Confequence to us : Mocha is feated a Defa ip- 
in the Happy Arabia, at the entrance of f/"o«o/Mc- 
the Red Sea at 1 3 deg. 28 min. Northern ^ha. 
Latitude : It is of a confiderable extent, 
without any Walls, in a barren ground, 
but well built with red and blue Stones, 
the Houfes flat on the top like thofe of 
Conftantinople \ it has three very fine Pa- 
godes, or Pagan Temples, two whereof 
have no Steeples, the third, in themidltof 
the City, being adorn'd with a very high 
Steeple. At the North end (lands a fmall 
Caltle like a R^edoubt built, of blue 
Stone, for the Defence of the Harbour, 
\6\1. 
Mocha was about 90 or 1 00 years ago 
no more than a Village inhabited by 
Filhermen ; but lince its Redudion by the 
Turks, is fo encreafed by degrees, that Us En- 
it is one of the chief Places on that Coail '-'-i"-'. 
now ; the Traffick of the Indian Ships 
thatufed to come to an Anchor at ^r/wi 
( formerly a great Trading City ) being 
transferr'd to Mocha^ by reafon of the 
Caravans which coiife thither with more 
conveniency at certain times of the 
year. Its Inhabitants are Turh, Ara^ 
bians, Benjans and Jews: Here is conftant- 
ly a great concourfe of People from the 
beginning of March to the middle of 
September; about which time the great 
Ship calPd Manfuuri (which is kept by 
the Turki/h Sultan for the Tranfportation 
of the richeft Commodities from the far- 
thermolt parts of the Red Sea hither) 
arrives here, its Cargo being gene- 
rally e'fteem'd at 2500000 or 3000000 
Reals, and confifting in Pieces of Eight, 
Golden Ducats, Italian Golden Tiflues, 
Camlets, Saffron, Quick-lilver, and di- The Trndc 
vers other Commodities, belides Slaves of Mochj. 
of 
