S 1 4 A Supplemental Account 
bring the Dutch , when they lade their Pepper, great 
Store of Gold, but as bad, if not worfe, than their China 
Gold. Towards Thibet , which is the ancient Caucafus in 
the Territories of a Rajah, beyond the Kingdom of Ka- 
chemire , there are three Mountains clofe by each other, 
one of which produces excellent Gold, the other Granats, 
and the third Lapis Lazuli . There is alfo Gold which 
comes from Tipra , but is as coarfe as the Chinefe Gold ; 
and thefe are all the Places in Afia that yield Gold. In 
Africa Gold is more plentiful than in Afia. Out of the 
Empire of Monomotapa , which extends itfelf as far as 
Prejbyter John’s Country, comes the pureft Gold in all 
Africa , where they dig it with Eafe out of the Earth, not 
being conftrained to dig above two or three Foot deep, and 
in feme Places not inhabited for want of Water. The 
People find Lumps of Gold upon the Surface of the 
Earth of an Ounce Weight or more. 
The King of the Abyffms fent the Mogul a natural Tree 
all of Gold, two Foot four Inches high, and fix Inches 
about in the Stock, with ten or twelve Branches, fome 
half a Foot long, and an Inch about, and fome fmaller : 
In fome Branches appeared Bunches like Buds, and the 
Roots were thick and fhort. The Province where the 
River Sena has its Head, called Monkaran , has a King 
of its own, and is very healthy : There the People find 
great Plenty of Gold-duft in the Rivers that fall into, the 
Sena, but is much coarfer than the other. The Cafres alfo 
of the other Provinces bring great Store of Gold yearly to 
Sofala and Cheapon Goura , which are under the Portu - 
gueze , to buy fuch Commodities as they want, when the 
Ships come. Some Years there are Cafres that come from 
the Cape of Good-Hope to Sofala , which is four Months 
Journey, and bring very fine Gold in Pieces, like that 
of Monomotapa , which, they fay, they find in the Moun- 
tains by digging ten or twelve Foot deep. 
They alfo bring great Quantities of Elephants Teeth ; 
for they abound fo in Elephants, that the Pallifadoes of 
their Fortrefs and Pales of their Parks, are all made of 
Elephants Teeth. Their ufual Diet is Elephants Flelh. 
In the Kingdom of Beroe grows a Root of a yellow 
Colour, very bitter, and about an Inch thick, which cures 
all forts of Fevers by vomiting. There are no Silver- 
Mines in Afia , unlefs it be in Japan. But a few Years 
fince there have been difeovered plentiful Mines of Tin at 
Delegora , S angora, Bordelen , and Bata , which have 
fpoiled the Trade of the Englijh thither for that Com- 
modity. 
1 1 . The great Extent of the vaft Empire of the Mo- 
gul, as well as the various Temperature and Productions 
of the Soil and Climate, makes as much Difference be- 
tween one Province and another, as if they were feveral 
Kingdoms ; and therefore there can be no way to give an 
exaCfc Account of all Things remarkable : But, confidering 
the feveral Provinces diftin&ly, and what’s peculiarly ob- 
fervable in them. We will begin with the Kingdom of 
Kachemire , commonly called the Paradife of Indofan \ a 
Country, tho’ mountainous, yet fo fruitful, that you would 
take it for an ever-green Garden, being full of Trees, and 
Paftures with all forts of Cattle, as Cows, Goats, Sheep, 
Horfes, Partridges, Hares, Gazels, and the Mufk- Ani- 
mals. There are Abundance of Bees, but no Serpents, 
Tygers, Bears and Lions. The Fields produce Rice, 
Corn, Pulfe of divers forts, Hemp, and Saffron, being 
inter-fefted with Ditches, Lakes, and Rivulets, to ad- 
vance their Plenty. Up and down every where alfo are 
feen fome of our European Trees, Flowers, and all forts 
of Plants, as Apples, Pears, Prunes, Apricots, Nuts, and 
Vines ; and their Gardens are full of Melons, Water-Me- 
lons, Skerrets, Beets, Radifhes, and all forts of our Pot- 
herbs, and fome that we have not ; But their Fruits are 
not fo many, nor fo good as ours. 
The People are very induftrious as well as intelligent, 
and make Pallekies, Trunks , Bedfleads , Standifhes, 
Boxes, and Spoons, with many other Pieces of handfome 
Workmanfliip, fending them all over the reft of the Indies ; 
and to fome of thefe they give fuch a Varnifh, with coun- 
terfeit Veins, and Gold Streaks, that nothing is finer. 
Xhey make alfo a kind of a Stuff an Ell and an half long, 
and about an Ell long called C hales, and embroidered a; 
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each End, for about a Foot, fo foft and fine, as is immn 
table, though it is attempted at Patna, Agra , and Labor. 
The Moguls and Indians, both Men and Women, wear* 
of them in Winter upon their Heads, and bring them over 
their Shoulders like a Mantle : They are made of their own 
Wool, which is finer' than Sfanifh,,Qx of the Hair taken 
from the Breaft of a wild Goat in Great Tibet, called Touz . 
Some of thefe are fold for a hundred and fifty Rupees to the 
great Omrahs. 
The People are of a fair Complexion, and eipedally the 
Women, are very beautiful, and of as fair Faces as m 
Europe. Between Bunbor and Kachemire are, fome Moun- 
tains that feem to part two Worlds rather than two Pro^ 
vinces ; for on the one Side it was fcorching and hot, as in, 
the Tor id Zone, and full of Indian, Plants proper to it ; on 
the other Side it enjoys a temperate, frefh Air, and, the Soil 
produced Hyffop, Thyme, Marjoram, and Rofeinary, 
Oaks, Elms, Pines, and Plane Trees. Between thofe 
Rocks are admirable Cafkades of Water, and among others 
one not to be paralleled, which running in a Channel between 
the Trees, on a fudden precipitates itlelf into the Bottom of 
a fteep Rock, with a Noife able to make one deaf like a 
Cataraft. In the Month of May here is a Fountain that for 
fifteen Days regularly flows, and flops thrice a Day, viz. 
at Break of Day, Noon, and Night : Its flowing fills $ 
Square ten or twelve Foot broad, and as many deep, and 
then it flacks by Degrees till about the End of the Month, 
and then quite flops for the reft of the Year. By it the 
Gentiles have a Temple of the Idol Brara, and from thence 
the Fountain is called Send Brari , i. e. the Water of Brara, 
and hither many Pilgrims come to bathe and fanctify thern- 
felves. 
In the Royal Garden at Achiavel in this Province Is 3 
Pond, where are Fifhes that will come when they are called, 
and when you call Bread to them. The biggeft of which 
have alfo Rings in their Nofes, with Infcriptions on them. 
At Baramoulay is a Mofk, in which is a Tomb of one of 
their Friars or Saints, where *tis faid the Sick are cured every 
Day which flock thither, and eleven Moulahs, with one 
Finger each, lift a huge Stone, which the ftrongeft Maa 
can hardly raife eafily : But thefe things are miraculous only 
to the credulous and careiefs ; but the bubbling Fountain, 
which rifes gently, and with fome little Force, making 
fome final! Bubbles, and bringing up Sand with it, which 
goes away with it again, and the Water becomes ftift, and 
fo remains awhile without Bubbles, and then rifes again, is 
certain. In the Mountains near this Fountain is a Lake 
that hath Ice in Summer, and looks like an Icy Sea ; and 
a little farther is a Place, where making a great Noife, will; 
prefently caufe a Shower of Rain. Among thefe Moun- 
tains live a People which eat no Flefti, counting it unclean, 
yet they have no Religion. 
The City of Azemer is famous for the Tomb of Qogea> 
Mandy , who was in great Reputation for his SanCtity, and 
therefore they come from all Places in Pilgrimage to if. It 
is a fair Building, with three Courts, paved with Marble, 
and hath in it a Refer vatory of Water, walled about ; and 
in the Province adjoining there is a Beaft like a Fox in the 
Snout, but no bigger than a Hare, of the Colour of a 
Stag, and Teeth like a Dog : It yields moft excellent Mufk ; 
for at the Belly is a Bladder full of Matter, like corrupt; 
Blood, which is the Mufk. They cut off the Bladder for 
it, but the Beaft never lives long after it. There are alft* 
Pullets, whofe Skin is all over black, as are alfo their Bones; 
but the Flefh is white, and their Feathers of another Co- 
lour. The Women of this Country are marriageable at 
eight or nine Years old, and bear Children at ten j the 
Children go naked, only with a Bit of Cloth to cover their 
Privities. The People are rude and uncivil, and the Men, 
great Clowns, and impudent ; when they quarrel they make 
a great bawling, but never come to Blows, There are 
venomous Scorpions in this Country, and the People have 
feveral Remedies to cure the Stinging ; but. the heft of a]J 
is Fire ; for by applying a burning Coal tQ it, they draw 
the Venom out, and perfectly cure it. 
The Roads thro* this Country being very ftony, they flioe 
their Oxen, and bridle and faddle them like Horfes and if 
they be but a little fpurred, they go as fail as a good Hprfe ; 
with them alfq they draw their Carts and Q?aehev for 
their 
