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out a token of worship; whom he called Jogee, or the holy man: 
under this the way being made into handsome marble steps, are 
the king’s stables, not different from the fashion of our noblemen’s 
stables; only at the head of every stall seems to be a dormitory, 
or place for devotion, with images; which gave occasion to doubt 
if ever for that end; or rather made for an heathen seminary of 
devotees, and these their cells or chapels, and the open place their 
common hall, or school: more aloft stood the king’s palace, 
large, stately, and magnificent; surrounded with lesser of the 
nobility. 
“ To see all would require a month’s time; but that we might 
see as much as we could in our allotted time, we got upon the 
highest part of the mountain, where we feasted our eyes with in- 
numerable entrances of these coney-burrows, but could not see 
one quarter part. Whose labour this should be, or for what pur- 
pose, is out of memory: but this place by the gentiles is much 
adored: some contend for Alexander; and, as a proof, think the}" 
have said enough, when it is received by tradition, that a great 
gap was cut by him out of a solid rock to make this an island : 
but this is contradictory to the story delivered of Alexander, that 
he sailed up the Indus, and encountered king Porus; of whom 
some little remains may be collected, they speaking of that king by 
the name of For, in Cambaia. 
“ Returning to Magatana, we spent some days in riding about 
the country, which we found every where provided with churches. 
The chief city of this island is Tanaw, in which are seven churches 
and colleges, the chiefest one of the Paulistines: the houses tiled, 
but low: here are made good stuffs of silk and cotton. The For- 
