'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.' [‎130] (175/506)

Letter III.
We force our
way.
Our efcape to
yiumbegaum,
and hardfhip
of the Coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. ,
A Defer if Hon Surat,
Our entrance
into the City
of Jeneah.
They durft no more than curfe, for all I departed without leave,
taking my Courfe into a deep Valley, which winded and turned likea
Rive/, and I believe is one in the Rains: Half way we met another
Caphala of Oxen laden with Provifions, hardly efcaping the MoguTs
Army, which they told us was not far afofe us: My Coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. more
jealous of the Villany of Seva Gi's People than my felf, made hafte,
and by Ten at Night arrived at Aumlegaum, Ten Courfe.
From whence Mucklis Cam's Men had driven all away with aPar-'
ty of his Horfe, only one Fakier, who had fet up his Standard in a
Shop in the Bu%zar> next to whom I ftirowded my felf under one of
the fame Stalls : Before Five in the Morning, for fear of farther In
terruption, I polled hence, up Hill and down Hill, not having
Rice for my People to eat (all being fled) we came to a neat Scone
Well of good Water; hard by which was an excellent Fig-tree, on
whofe Fruit, yet Green, my Indians fed heartily, and trouped by
three or four wretched Towns, up another Mountain, not altoge
ther fo bad as the firft, yet on the account of their wanting thtir
wonted Food, it went hard with the Coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. to foot it to Beelfeer,
two Courfe Ihort of Jeneah y where we baited; it being high time,
they having gone near Fifty Miles without eating more than a few
fqualhy Figs: They unloaded at Noon under a Row of fpreading
Mangosy on the fide of a Brook ; and provided themfelves with Vi-
duals in an adjacent Village, liable to continual pillaging on both
fides; but being reduced to the Condition of having little or nothing
to loie, it is the better born.
Hence rt is plain to Jeneah, the Hills keeping their diftance from
its Invincible Gur: The length of whofe Bottom fills moft of the
fpace from this Place to the City, which is the Frontier of the Mofuh
Territory this way ; and has been for many Years the Seat of War
to the South, which is the fignification of Duccan.
1 fent the Governor's Peon A low-ranking infantryman, orderly or assistant (South Asian context). to acquaint him of my approach (I
not arriving till Sun-fet) when he met me with others that were
appointed at a Garden Ihort of the Town, with the Governor's Com
plement ; and conduced me to a Palace in a Compleat Garden,
adorned with Cyprefs Trees (not ufual in India) Hummums, Tarhy
Choultries and Walks, with Water-Courfes: When I wasafleep, the
Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. or Governor fent me a Service in Plate covered with Em
broidered Velvet over Noble Surpoofes or Covers, ulhered with two
Silver Staves, and a Trumpet founding afore it; which Courfe was
cbferved as long as I remained there.
The laft day of April, being Friday, and the next after my arri
val, he fent to excufe himfelf, becaufe it was his day of Devotion;
when after a Princely manner he rides on an Elephant to the
and thence divertifes himfelf in fome place of Delight within his &
ragho till high Night.
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