838 The Roads to the fever a l Marts of India, Book I. 
by twelve Leagues. In the more dire£t Road you meet 
with not above four Towns, befides fifteen or fixteen Vil- 
lages, viz. Elmds-kepentch , Panguel , Sarchel, and Pen- 
guet-chepoul. You pals alfo feveral Rivers, the molt con- 
fiderable of which are Kachna and Moucby. All the 
Country as you pafs this Way is always green and plea- 
fant to the Eye, though the Road be bad, and there 
grow all kinds of Trees that are in the Indies , even Caffia- 
trees, though they be fcarce in other Countries : This Way 
you come to Majlipatan in ten Days. The other Way, 
by the Diamond-Mines, lies, fird, to Tenara , where the 
King has a (lately Palace, confiding of four large Piles 
of Stone-Building, to every one of which belong a large 
Garden. One of them, on the Left-hand, along the High- 
way, is much more beautiful than the other three ; it is 
built of Free-done, two Story high, and has in it feveral 
fair Galleries, Halls, Parlours, and Lodging- rooms, which 
are the Royal Apartments. Before this Building is a large 
fquare Piazza ; and in the other three Fronts is a great 
Portal, with a fair large Platform, raffed. four or five Foot 
high, and well arched, where Travellers of Fortune are 
lodged, and over each Portal is a drong Baluder, and a 
little Chamber for the Ladies. 
One of thefeBuildings belongs entirely to the Queen, and 
though no body may lodge in it in the Queen’s Abfence, 
yet any one may fee it, and walk in the Garden, which is 
a lovely Place, and well fupply’d with Water. The whole 
Piazza is encompaffed with feveral Chambers for the 
Lodgings of poor Travellers, who, every Day, towards 
Evening, have an Alms bedowed upon them of Rice and 
Pulfe ready boiled •, and for this there are alienable Rents 
fettled: But for the Idolaters, who will eat nothing that is 
powdered by other Hands, they give them Flour to make 
Bread, and a little Butter to 'dip it in when it is baked, 
like a thin Brend-Cake. From Tenara the Road lies 
through Jatenagcr , Patengi , Pengual , Nagelpar , and La- 
kabaran , to Coulour , or Gani. This lad Part of the Way 
is very rocky, and among thefe Rocks, where there is 
any good Earth, you find the Caflia-trees, that bear the 
bed, and mod laxative Cafiia of any in the Indies. By 
Coulour runs a River, which falls into the Gulph of Ben- 
gal , near Majlipatan. From hence the Road lies through 
Kah-Kaly , Bazour , where you pafs the River of Coulour , 
Vochir , Nilimor , where they mud crofs a great River 
Upon a fiat Boat of Timber, and fo by Nilmol to Majli- 
patan. This is a great City on the Coad of Coromandel , 
lying in 16° 30' North Lat. It dands upon the Gulph 
of Bengal E. S. E. from Golconda ; and though it be but 
fmall, yet it is well peopled. The Streets are narrow, 
and it is intolerable hot there from March till July. The 
Houfes are built of Wood, and all feparated one from ano- 
ther, and the Water is brackffh, becaufe the Tide comes 
up to it. There is great Trading in Chints, becaufe, be- 
fides thofe that are made there, a great many are brought 
from St. Thomas , which are much finer, and better Co- 
lours than thofe from other Parts of India. The Coad is 
excellent, and the Road for Ships is the bed in all the 
Gulph of Bengal , and therefore Ships come thither from 
all Nations, and go from thence to Pegu, Siam , Aracon , 
Bengal , Cochin-China , Mecca and Ormuz, and for the In- 
lands of Madagafcar , Sumatra , and the Manillas, This 
Country of Majipatan , as well as the Coads, is full of 
* Idolaters •, and the Pagods are fo full of lacivious Figures 
of Monders, that one cannot go into them without Hor- 
ror. It is exceeding fruitful, and Provifions are very 
cheap there : A Sheep is bought for Twelve-pence, a Par- 
tridge for a Halfpenny, and a Fowl for Two-pence ; and 
it is the fame almod every where upon the Goads of Cor- 
mandel. From Majlipatan to Gandicut the Way lies thus ; 
you pafs Nilmol, Wochir, and Patemet, three fmall Vil- 
lages, and the lad of them a very pitiful one, to Bezouart , 
a great Town, where all the Inhabitants, except the Go- 
vernor, and fome of his Domedicks, are Idolaters. 
In this Town is a very large Pagod without Walls, 
confiding of fifty-two Pillars of twenty Foot high, which 
uphold a flat Roof of Freephone. They are adorned 
with feveral emboffed Figures of very ugly Devils, and 
feveral forts of Creatures, fome with four Horns, others 
with many Legs and Tails, others lolling out their 
Tongues, and others in feveral other ridiculous Poftures • 
And between the Pillars dand the Statues of their 
Gods upon Pededals. The Pagod is build in the Middle 
of a Court, encompaffed with Walls, adorned within and 
without, with the fame Figures as the Pagod, and a Gal- 
lery, fudain’d by fixty Pillars, runs round the Wall. You 
enter into this Court through a Portal, with Nitches one 
above another, fupported with Pillars, which have cer- 
tain Indian Characters upon them ; but the Prieds them- 
felves hardly know the Meaning. By this Town is ano- 
ther Pagod, built upon an Hill, to which there is an A lu- 
cent of 193 Steps, every one a Foot high : It is four- 
fquare, with a Cupolo at the Top, adorned with Figures, 
as that at Bezourat. In the Middle is an Idol fitting crofs- 
legg’d, after the Manner of the Country ; and in that Po- 
ll u re, about four Foot high ; upon the Head, is a triple 
Crown, from which four Horns extend themfeives, and 
it has the Face of a Man turned towards the Ead. The 
Pilgrims that come out of Devotion to thefe Pagods, when 
they enter, clafp their Hands together, and raife them up 
to their Forheads, and then, advancing to the Idol, cry out. 
Ram , Ram , i. e. God, God : Then having anointed it 
with Oil, or befmeared the Face with Paintings, they ring 
a little Bell that hangs upon the Idol ; after which they 
make their Offerings of Sugar, Oil, and other Eatables, 
the richer fort adding Pieces of Silver. 
Thefe Offerings, though the People are made to believe 
the Idol takes them, yet maintain the Prieds, their Wives, 
and Children, except that they relieve the poor Pilgrims 
with them. There is a great Fead made in this Pa- 
god in Qftober, for three Days together, at which Time 
there is a great Concourfe of People from all Parts, 
Leaving Bezourat , you crofs the River that runs to Gani 9 
and three Leagues farther come to a Pagod, built upon a 
large Plat-form, with an Afcent of fifteen or twenty 
Steps ; in it is the Figure of a Cow of black Marble, and 
feveral other deformed Idols four or five Foot high, 
fome with many Heads, and others with many Hands 
and Legs ; and the mod ugly are mod adored, and re- 
ceive the mod Offerings. 
20. The next Town in the Road is Kab-Kabi , near to 
which is a fmall Pagod, wherein are five or fix Idols, well 
made. And, having paffed that, you come to Candevar , 
a great City, clofed in with drong Walls, with a Ditch, 
and a Moat, paved at the Bottom with Free-done. Eaft- 
ward it dretches out to a Mountain about a League in 
Compafs, and furrounded with Walls with Half-moons 
Within them are three Fortreffes. From hence you travel 
to Capanour , and fo to Adanquige , a very fair Town, 
where there is a very large Pagod, with abundance of 
Chambers for the Prieds, and feveral Idols, but they are 
fallen to Decay, yet are fuperditioufiy adored by the People. 
You go on to Nojdrepar , and fo over a large River, 
which is dry in Summer, to Condicour , Dakije , Nelour y 
where there are many Pagods ; and fo eroding a River to 
Gandron, Screple , Ponte , and Senepgond , to Palieate , to 
which the Way lies for a League through the Sea. 
It is a Fort that belongs to the Dutch> that live upon 
the Coad of Caromondel , and within it are ufually two 
hundred Soldiers. It is the chief Faftory they have in the 
Indies , where lives the Superintendent of all the reft 
which are in the Territories of the King of Golconda . 
The Trade managed there by the Dutch is in Cotton- 
Cloth, of which they have large Warehoufes. Here al- 
fo they refine their Salt-petre, which they bring from 
Bengal , and make Gunpowder, with which they furnidi 
their other Factories. The Fort of Palieate , called Guel- 
dria , is at a good Diftance from the Town, that it may 
not be annoyed by Shot from thence. The Baftions are 
well ftored with good Guns, and the Sea comes up to the 
Walls of it. The Governor has fifty Crowns a Month for 
Jiis Pay, and as many for his Table and Cloths. The 
current Money here are Rupees , and Pagods , which laft 
are four Times the Value of the former, Fanons , which 
are half Gold and half Silver, with the fame Stamp as the 
Pagods , but the feventh Part of a Rupee in Value, and 
Gazars , which are Pieces of Copper as big as Fanon, but 
forty of them are but the Worth of it. The Dutch coin 
this Money,- The Water of this Town is fetched out of 
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