'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎35] (62/562)

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gofpel, when Jtfus came into the ruler's hd'ufei and faw the mtnfirels and, the 1754*
people making a noife^ He faid unto them, give place, &c. There it was that I
alio firft favv the ceremony of their burning the dead. As the place was
very populous, there were feldom lefs than three or four burned every night
near the water's edge, under Malabar-hill.
During my ftay at this place, I hired by the month, a chaife drawn by a pair
of bullocks. In the feveral excurfions I made in this carriage, I had frequently
palled by one of thofe religious perfons, or anchorets, who in India are called
Joogees \ and who, in confequence of a vow made by their parents, and dur
ing their mother's pregnancy with them, are devoted to the fervice of heaven.
One evening, I and a companion had an inclination to pay afhort vifitto this
Joogee ; who always fat in one pofture on the ground in a fhady cocoa-nut
plantation, with his body covered over with allies, and his long black hair
clotted, and in the greateft diforder. As we approached him, we made our
falutation, which he refpeflfully returned; and then, with the affiftance of
our Indian driver, who could fpeak Englijh, we began a converfation with
him, that principally turned on the wonderful efficacy of his prayers, and
which he pretended had given health to the fick, llrength to the lame, fight
to the blind, and fecundity to women who for their whole lives had been
deemed barren. When w f e were about to take our leave of him, I offered
him aprefentof two rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , which he bade me to throw on the ground, and
then direded his fervant, who was (landing by, to take them up; which he
did with a pair of iron-pincers, throwing the rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. at the fame time into a
pot of vinegar. After they had lain there a little while, the fame fervant
took them out, wiped them carefully, and at laft delivered them to his mailer •*
who foon afterwards, by way of return, prefented us with a few cakes of his
infipid paftry. I then requefted of him, that in his next prayers he would
petition for an increafe of my happinefs •, to which, with great complacency
in his countenance, he replied : " I hardly know what to alk for you : I have
44 feen you often, and you have always appeared to me to enjoy perfe<5b
44 health; you ride in your chaife at your eafe ; are often accompanied with
" a very pretty lady •, you are ever well cloathed, and are likewife * fat fo
" that you feem to me to be in pofTefTion of every thing that can be any way
" neceflfary to happinefs. I believe therefore, when I pray for you, it muft
" be in this drain i that God ivould give you grace to deferve, and to he thank-
a ful for thofe many hlejfmgs which he has already heftowed upon you" I told
him that I was thoroughly fatisfied with the mode of his intended fupplica-
tion for me; and with a mutual exchange of fmiles and compliments, we
parted.
* The rich Indians we were told take great pains to make themfelvesfat. To this end, they
not only live moft luxurioufly, but in the day time fleep in a Twinging cot, and appoint a
fervant gently to move it, whofe bufinefs is alfo at ftated times to awake the mafter, meerly
to give him an opportunity of fvvallowing half a pint or more of liquid butter or Ghee. This
fufficiendy accounts for the jtoogee's emphatically mentioning corpulency amongft the peculiar
favours of heaven,
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