'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎41] (62/448)

Dabul, Saint fohn. Choul^ Daman,
ing made the Sea fo fublime and wrathful, and for three days fpace raging with fuch fiiry
that we verily believed a Hero cane was begun, a vaft or unwonted tumor in the Air, called
Biiroclydon in the Ads *, a Tempeft fo terrible that Houfes and Trees are but like duft be
fore if, many Ships by its violence having been blown afhore and mattered. OlmsMag*
nm lib. i. cap. 4. and /^. 7. cap. 3. Sept. Hiftor. gives fome memorable examples of it •,
once in nine years it ufes to thunder among them, and is prefaged by Birds and Beafts
who three or four days before the ftorm, give notice by their noife and hiding themfelves
under ground as if an overture of the World were enfuing: and as in thefe, fo in molt
other parts of the World, there are certain times for Itormy weather. In the Weft^In-
dies every Sept. the North winds bring dreadful ftorms, Tiffons they call them, Arifiotle
I. 2. Meteor, fic dittum a Typhone gigante, fo as during that month none put to Seaun-
lefs neceffity inforce them: But this and other our Water fcapes made that faying of Bias
come to mind, Navigantes nec inter vivos nee inter mortuos ejfe mmerandos. Agreeable to
which is Anacharfts his Ironique queftion. Q ua naves ejfent mijpma ? qua in ficcum per-
tratta fmt. And Callimachm no lefs wittily, Jncmdiffimum ejfe Mare *, fed fi qnis de Terr a
Hind contempletur. Praifed be God we milt a Tuffon, but not a fecond difadventure, this
ftorm forcing a Mallabar Junk a Pirat in view of us j whom our Ordnance could not
reach though the longeft Saker we had vomited Fire of defiance after him; fo as we
were forced to chafe her with two Barges, each manned with fifty Mufquetiers: And
Vela damns quamvis remige navis eat. But it appeared that we made too much hafce,
for in boarding her our Men were entertained with fuchftore of Fire-works and Hand-
granado's, with a volley of invenomed fhafts, and which was worfe, with fuch defpe-
perate courage, that after fmall hurt done them we were conftrained to. retreat with
lofs, one half being flain or fcalded *, our Ships all the while being an unwilling Theater
of this Affront, the Wind forbidding us to retaliate.
The 22. of November the Wind abated, fo as founding we found ground at forty fa
thoms, andfawmany Snakes fwimming about our Ships, which (with the waters chan
ging colour) alfured us we were near the Ihore, the laft ftorm having driven us out of
light of land, and fome what puzled us as to our way *, and that there are Sea Serpents as
well as Land, is agreed by Writers; yea that they ufe both Elements. Serpentes mari
nas in terra aliquando degere pojfe, Ariftot. and that they are eaten by fbme as we do Eels,
Lampreys, and the like. Serpent em marinum efui quidem ejfe aptum, quemadmodum cateri ma-
rini animantes, ut congri, angmlU, mnfieU, See. ferum propter fmilitudinem cum ferpente
terrefirh tanquam ah angue & non pifce, abhorrent^ Bellonim lib. de pifcibm, but from a re-
femblance they have with Land Snakes by molt Men (Chinaes excepted) they are ab
horred. Soon after we defcried land in 19 degrees 35 minutes latitude, and 29 in lon
gitude i which by its height we knew to be Dabul, called Dunga by Gaflaldm • and foon
after that we had fight of Saint John de vac as, a Town likewife liibjedt to the Portugal: the
Southend of which place mounts in a pyramid of Natures work, named Saint Valentine^
Teake, the land continuing high from thence to Gmdavee, a Hill fix leagues fhort of
Swalley Road. This is a round Hillock and Bay of importance unto Marriners.
The 27. of IStovember we haPd an Indian Pifcadoro aboard us: never was Antick
better habited *, he told us that many Enemies were at hand, but we fear'd them not:
after long toil, tiding up with ftream anchors, every fix hours weighing and dropping,
in fhort time we got to Chotd then we came to Daman a lovely Town inhabited by For?
tugalsy and confpicuous to Paifengers: in this moft memorable^ that as fome conjedure
it was the Ne plus or furtheft place which the great Macedonian Monarch with his Army
marcht unto in India \ fome Authors neverthelefs fay that after the defeat he gave King
Vorm hepaft his Army as far as Ganges, miftaken for Indus, down which River he fent
Veifels for difcovery. At the North end Daman has a Caftle which we could well per
ceive was large and ftrong *, the material good white chalky ftone, flankt with Ord
nance and mounted to play at advantage: At the South end we perceived a fair Church
with white battlements a top, the Houfes were fome of like ftone, others unburnt brick,
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