'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎88] (131/506)

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Murder or any Capital Crime, then they are to be fent to Bomhaim
there to have a Legal Trial, according to the Laws of England as
the Prefident is created Governor of his Majefty s.Ifland. '
The ill managing of which Penalties formerly, or the Invalidity
to inflid them, may be the true Caufe of the Unprofperoufnefsof
the Ancient Undertakers ; who had this Inconveniency ftill attend'
ing, to wit, the incorrigible ftubborne fs of their own Men, after they
had overcome ail other Difficulties, occafioned by the Grant of the
Eafl to the/Wag^and Weft-Indies to the Spaniard Neverthelefs this
Fairy Gift was the Ground of a long and tedious Quarrel in each
of the World's Ends; fo that our Ships encountring with their
Carracks\ feldom ufed to part without the lofs of one or both. Nay
the long-liv'd People yet at Swal/ey, remember a notable Skirmifh
betwixt the 'Englifh and Portugals there, wherein they were neatly
iitrapp'd; an Ambufcado of ours falling upon them behind infuch
fort, that they were compelled between them and the Ships in the
Road, to refign mod of their Lives; and gave by their Fall a me-
morable Name to a Point they yet-call Bloody Point, for this very
reafon. But fince thefe Sores are fortunately bound up in that Con
jugal Tye betwixt our Sacred King and the Sifler of Portugal, laying
all foul Words and Blows afide, let us fee how the Affairs ftand be
twixt them and the Dutch, who followed our Steps, and got in at
the Breach we made. They made them more Work, not only beat
ing them out of their Trade, but poflefled themfelvesof all
their Treafures of Spice, and have ever fince kept them, with all
their Strong-holds, as far as G^; they only enjoying the Gold Trade
of Mofamhque undiflurbed; the Japanners having banilhed both
their Commerce"and Religion.
Wherefore our Ships almoft alone, were it not for a little the
French of late, lade Calicutsfor Europe: The Dutch have a Fadory
here, that vend the Spices they bring from Batavia, and invert part
of the Money in courfe Cloath, to be difpofed among their Planters,
or fold to the Malayans, and fend the reft back in Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. : So that we
fingly have the Credit of thePort, andareof moft advantage to the
Inhabitants, and fill the Cuftom-Houfe with the fubftantialefl In-
CO u m r S V ^ Ut rt0t ! 0 ckfra " d , the Fre " cb of their M Conimendations,
whole Fadtory is better ftor'd with Monfieurs than with Cafh they
hve well, borrow Money, and make a Shew: Here are French
Capuchins, who have a Convent, and live in Efteem.
And here I might conclude, did not the Diamond Tnde and other
Jewelsinterpofe; which I could wifh for the Company's fakem sht
never be ft ruck out of their Indulgence allowed to their Servants:
^or it will never amount to Advantage in their hands, becaufe the
Jews, w o ar^. the cnief Chapmen in England will blow upon them,
un e s t ie} come to their Prices, w hen more'than enoughis offered
em. ut in particular hands the Cafe is others ife, every one
natdiing at a Prize, which none is fenfible of, but the private Buver;
but when they are pubhckly Invoiced, it will be at their own Wills to
make their Bargains. Withal, in the Company's Servants hands, it
on y eeps them Hontft, but they grow Rich without wronging
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