Chap. VII. 
the Eaft-India Pagans. 
84 
by fome Fiflier-men and Ape-Hunters, 
was forc'd to return to Calaja^ where 
finding Ixora overwhelm'd with Sleep, 
fhe overturn'd his Bedftead, which a- 
wakening him, flie told him her Difafter ; 
whereupon being endow'd with new Vi- 
gor by Ixora^ fhe return'd to her Veflel, 
and having defeated the Jpe-Hmtersy and 
landed fafcly on the South-fide of Coulang 
(a City of Malabar^ the Queen thereof 
fent for her to Court, and entertained 
her there for 1 1 years as her own Daugh- 
ter. 
The Lord of Couleta (a Country 7 
Leagues to the North of Calemt) then 
defiring Patragali in Marriage for his Son, Q^-V^ 
the fame was concluded, and fhe taken 
home, where (he liv'd for 1 2 years with- '-^'^^^ 
out ever cohabiting with her Husband, 
as boalling her felt to be the Daughter 
of Ixora. Mendoz.a fpeaks of a certain 
Idol in China with a Child hanging about 
her Neck, which the Jefuits would fain 
perfwade the World to have been intend- 
ed for the Virgin Mary^ tho it feems 
much more probable, that it was intend- 
ed for this Patragali. What Mr. Le 
Blanc tells us of the Female Idol of Ca- 
kcut^ feems very fufpicious to me. 
CHAP, vir, 
l^atragali'^ Father and Mother fujfer Shif wrack. She fends her Husband to fell 
her Jervelsy and goes in o^uefi after him. Nine feveral Adventures which 
happen to her. The rejt of Ixora his Children, their Adventures, What 
further becomes of Paramefceri. 
PacragaliV 
Husband 
executed. 
PatragaliV 
Adventures 
whilft (lie 
goes in 
quefi of her 
HusbanL 
Afterwards PatragaWs Father and 
Mother-in-law being embark'd a- 
board a Ship with all their Riches, in or- 
der to trafiick with them in Foreign Coun- 
tries, they were attack'd at Sea by the 
Ape.hunters., who finking their Ships, they 
loft all their Riches. Patragali then gave 
her Golden Foot-rings to her Husband to 
fell them, who departed accordingly, but 
meeting upon the Road a Goldfmith ( a 
Highway-man of Pandy) he under pre- 
tence of viewing the Rings, entertain'd 
the Husband, till by feveral By-ways 
they brought him to Pandy. Here the 
pretended Goldfmith (who had not long 
before floln juft fuch Rings from the 
Qiieen of Pandy') accufed Patragali of 
the Robbery, who was put in Prifon, and 
afterwards empal'd alive on a Palm-tree. 
The Goldfmith's Wife having an aver- 
fion to fo foul a Fad, upbraided her 
Husband with it, who kill'd and buried 
her near a Well. 
Patragali having ftaid fix days without 
hearing any News from her Husband, 
refolv'd to go in fearch after him. 
The firft thing Ihe met with was a Pi- 
geon, which fhe ask'd, whether fhe had feen 
htr Husband? The Pigeon reply'd, fhe 
had feen him go that way, but not re- 
turn. In recompence whereof Patragali 
gave her this Blelling, That fhe fhould 
never want Water in February ( being the 
■drieft feafon here) and prefented her 
with a piece of her Chain, which fhe 
threw about her Neck, ( the Turtles have 
Vol. 111. 
fuch a Ring about the Neck. ) 
Patragali following the way fhewn her 
by the Pigeon, met with another Bird, 
of whom having enquired as fhe did be- 
fore of the Pigeon, fhe receiv'd the fame 
Anfwer, which made her beftow a Tuft 
upon his Head, being perhaps the fame 
we call the Fiemet in our Country, call'd 
Carpenteiro by the Portuguefes. 
Afterwards Patragali coming to a Man- 
^o-Tree, fhe ask'd the fame Qusftion 
but receiving no Anfwer, fhe cnrfl ir, 
that for the future the dead Corps fhould 
be burnt with no other Wood, and that 
all Veffels built of that Wood, fhould 
rot and be worm-eaten at Sea. 
Meeting next a Cow, fhe was kick'd 
by her hindermolt Legs^ which fhe re- 
fented fo ill, that fhe gave her this Curfe, 
That of her four Teats one fhould be for 
the ufe of the Pagode^ the other for the 
Prince of the Country, the third for the 
Owner, and the fourth only for her Calf j 
that they fhould make Drums of her Skin^ 
and that confequently fhe fhould be fub- 
jeft to Blows both dead and alive. 
The fifth fhe met with being a N'airo^ 
or Soldier of Malabar^ this Fellow had 
dug a hole, and having cover'd the fame 
with fome ifwigs and Sand, Patragali fell 
into it as fhe pafs'd along fhe gave him 
this Curfe, that he fhould be call'd Cow- 
ard all his life-time. 
The next was a Naira, or a Natroh 
Daughter, who being ask'd by her, whe- 
ther fhe had not feen her Hu&band ? fhe 
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