Chap II. 
to the E A S T - I N D I E S. 
Month. It is alfo well flocked with young Kids* but you 
are not fure of catching them, unlefs you have Dogs. 
We Taw no ‘Fruit in it but wild Figs, which were all 
fpoiled with Worms. To the Eafiward, under a high 
Mountain, there are vaft Quantities of Purfiain, Com- 
monly the Water of this Ifle is brackifh ; but upon the 
S. W. Part of the Bay, where the Anchorage is, there is 
a fmall Spring, that if it was cleanfed and dug deep* 
would afford pretty good Water. 
it is furniflied with a confiderable Quantity of wild 
Pines, which may ferve for Firing ; befides which it has 
no Wood, except fome Shrubs, that cafl forth a white 
milky Juice, that is very dangerous and painful to the 
Eyes if it touches them. There is very good Fifhing 
along die Rocks, and efpecially at a little Rock at the 
Entry of the Bay, about a quarter of a League from the 
Anchorage. In two Hours Time feven or eight may 
there catch Fifli enough for two hundred Men. In fine, 
it is not inferior to St. Helena for a Place of Refrefhment, 
except that its W ater is not fo good. In Compensation 
of which Defeat, it is all over acceffible, and furnifhed 
with pleafant Walks whereas the other is the moft inac- 
ceffible Country I ever faw. This Ifle is about nine Leagues 
in Circumference, and while we were there the Wind was at 
N. E. it has feveral pleafant Bays j but that towards the 
Ifle of St. Anthony is the beft Road for Ships that can be, 
for we rode at five Fathom Water, on an excellent Tandy 
Ground, and were flickered from all Winds. We faw 
neither Men nor Houfes, though we travelled over moil 
Part of the Eland. 
50. After our Departure from St. Vincent (which hap- 
pened September the 1 5th) we had feveral violent Storms. 
Otiober the 12th we defcried the Azores- JJlands , but it was 
the 17th before we could weather them. The 19th we 
had a violent Storm from N. W. that broke our Mizen- 
Maft, and obliged us to bring our Main-Top-Maft upon 
the Deck. The 30th we were 55 0 Lat. and had feventy 
Fathom Water, upon which moft of our Pilots agreed 
that the Sorlingues-IJlands lay about twenty Leagues to 
.the Weft of us. November the 3d we defcried the Lizard- 
Point in England •, and December the ift came fafe to Ha- 
vre de Grace , having been out thirty-eight Months. 
51. The Difficulties our Author met with, and the 
Misfortune of Jofing two of his Ships, did not hinder 
his making a faying Voyage even of this, which would 
have proved highly advantageous to his Owners, if the 
Hope had not been loft, fince it is computed that Ihe* a t 
the Time of her being burnt, had on Board a Cargoe worth 
feventy -five or eighty thoufand Pound fterling. There 
are- few Pieces that let us more eftebfually into the Secret 1 
of Trade than this, which fhews us perfectly the Me- 
thods made ufe of by the Dutch, to exclude all other Na- 
tions from the Commerce of the Indies^ and very fully 
juftifies what we have occafionally delivered upon that 
Subject It is really wonderful that the Subjects of the 
States-General ffiould venture, at that time of Day, to 
treat the French in fuch a Manner, to whom they had not 
only confiderable Obligations for the Countenance they 
had given them in the Infancy of thsir Commonwealth .3 
but were alfo in great Danger from their Power in Eu- 
rope. But however , this might affedt ' the States, the 
Eafi-India Company, it feems, gave chemfeives very little 
Concern about it ; which fhews how dangerous it is to 
leave the abfolute Adminiftration of their Affairs in thefe 
diftant Parts of the World to any Company, without hav- 
ing fome Check upon them from the State, which muft 
be anfwerable to other Powers for the Exceffes committed 
by the Agents of fuch a Company. 
As for Commodore Beaulieu , after his Return to France * 
he was taken into the King’s Service* and behaved ex- 
tremely well in the Affair of the Eland of Rhe, when the 
Fnglijh , under the Command of the Duke of Buckingham , 
made a Defcent upon that Eland, and during the long 
War againft the Proteftants, This recommended him fo 
effectually to the famous Cardinal Richelieu , .that he in- 
truded him with the Command of one of the beft Ships 
employed in the Squadron commanded by the Count de 
Hag court againft the Elands of St. Margaret , and St. Ho - 
norat, in which he likewife behaved with Reputation ; as 
alfo in the Expedition againft Sardinia, at his Return from 
which to the Port of Toulon, he was unfortunately feized 
with a burning Fever, which carried him off in the Month 
of September, 1637, at the Age of 48 •, fo that he may be 
faid to have died in that Seafon of Life when he was moft 
capable of ferving himfelf and his Country, 
SECTION XXVI. 
The Remarks and Obfervations made by John Albert de Mandelfloe, in his Pa [[age from 
the Kingdom of Per ha through feveral Coimtries of the Indies. 
Tranflated from the Original, written by himfelf. 
i. An introductory Account of the Author , and of the Dcfgn of this Section , 2. His Departure from Ifpahan, 
in order to go to Gambron, or Bandar Abaffi. 3. A curious Defcription of the Rums of the ancient Per- 
fepolis, now called Tchelminar. 4. The Author continues his ''journey to Laar, and from thence to Gam- 
bron. 5. His kind Reception, and generous. Entertainment , by the Englifh Merchants there. 6. A curious 
Defcription of the City and Port of Gambron, with the Country adjacent. 7. A concife Hiftory of the 
City and Kingdom of Ormuz, and of the Manner of its being annexed to the Empire of Perfial 8. An 
Account of the Author's Pafj'age from Gambron to Surat, with Remarks . 9. His Arrival at the loft men- 
tioned City, and the Reception he met with there . 10. A fuccinCi View of the Dominions of the Great 
Mogul, as they food at that Time. 11. A Defcription of the City of Surat, with a large Account of the 
Commerce carried on there . 1 2. The Author's Journey from thence to Amadabat, with his Adventures 
by the Way . 13 , A View of that City, and of the Country adjacent, with various Remarks and Obferva- 
tions. 14. An Account of fome memorable Tranfaclions which happened during the Author's Stay there. 
15. His Pdf age from thence to Cambaya, with a Defcription of that City , and its Inhabitants. 16. His 
Journey to Agra, with a large Account of that Capital of the Mogul Empire. 17. A very full Relation 
of the Mogul's Court , and of the State of the Empire ^Indoftan. 18. The Author's Journey back from 
Agra to Surat, with many curious Particulars. 19. A fuccinB Hfiory and Defcription of the Kingdom of 
Guzurat, and Provinces adjacent. 20. A.compleat View of the Religion, Cufioms, Manners, &c? of the 
Banjans, or native Indians. 21. A Continuation of that Account , together with a Defcription of the other 
Nations that now inhabit the Indies. 22. Of the Commodities , Manufactures and Commerce of thofe 
Countries . 23. Of the great Plenty of all forts of Provifions , and of the People's Manner of living , 
24. Of their Ships , their Trade to the Red-Sea, Perfian Gulph , and Co aft of Malabar. 2c Remarks 
upon the foregoing SeSIion. 1 ’ 
Num.b 6 Li 9 E The 
