'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.' [‎135] (180/506)

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brands con fuming them; which made us bethink of retiring, they Chap. V.
defcending fometimes in Parties to Prey on Straglers, that often
Troopers are fent home ckfrobed and difmounted, to be laught at for
their Misfortune.
Having tarried now till the Rains had made their firft onfet Four- Dungenefs ano-
teen days together, with horrid Thunder ; at the end thereof I fet ^ Heathen
apart a day to take notice of the adjacent Rarities ; among which is ane '
a City called Dmgenefs, of like Antiquity and Workmanfhip, as
Canorein, cut out of a Mountanous Rock, with a Temple and other
fpacious Halls, by no means inferior to it both for Water and other
Refrefhments, and much more entire; Time having not dealt fo
cruelly with it, but the Lines of its ruined Beauty are ftill legible,
though in old Charadiers; however it is left a defolate Habitation
for Batts and Wafps; to difturb which it is dangerous, being over
grown and defperately revengeful, following their Aggreflors till
they have Whealed them into Contrition for their unadvifed Provo
cation : To be out of the Noife of thefe buzzing Hornets, and to fe-
cure our felves from the furprize of any difturbed Idolater, who
might bellow the report of our being here, we hafted to the fafer
Plain, and ended the reft of the day in a pleafant Garden, on the
brink of the River which glides hence to Surat.
The Governor of the Gur hearing T was preparing for to return The Requefi
to Bomhaim, requefted before my departue to accept of my choice, of the Govet-
either to afcend the Gur^ or elfe to meet him at his Garden below, ^
being theprefcribed Limits of his Walk: I fignified my readinefs to Afcent!"^
comply with the former, wherefore he fent Four VaknkeenSy his
Kinfman, an Ingenuous Mogul, and his Brother to attend me.
We Travelled Two Miles before we came to the Foot of it, where The Suburbs
is a Garifon, or Fortified Townj walled with ftrong Chockies, or aflidcer tothe
Watches, and a Troop of Five hundred Horfe, and as many Camels Caftle,
of War; here are great Stacks of Hay and Corn, all their Droves of
Beafts being ftieltered here anights. Seva Gi has diftrefled this often,
and put them to the rout; but that, whofe Top we are endeavouring
to gain, is inacceflible, unlefs by Seven winding Gates, which are ve
ry ftrong, and able to clear one another as they rife, the Way being
lined with Murtherers, and they themfelves defended with good
Pieces of Ordnance: The laft is a Piece of excellent Work and
Strength, and the place filled with Soldiers.
Hence it is painful Riding, and requires a ftrong Back to keep The Hill i*n r
State in a Palenkeen, it being carried almoft bolt upright, over ^Seven buC
ilippery Marble fteps, cut out of the fhining Rock, as Imooth as Gates! 6
Glafs, and refleding the Sun-beams as much; After we had mounted
near an Hundred Stairs, we were received into the Neck of the
Caftle, which is collared about with a Wall, rather to keep them
from falling down, than needful to prevent Aflailants; from whence
an eafy Afcent leads to a Level, which is the Circus to train the In
fantry ; where are confpicuous Tombs of their former Kings, being
firmly Built, and a Mofque of poliihed Marble, which on Feftivals
only they repair unto: No Houfes here are able to refift the Storms
of Wind, or the Suns Heat, for which conveniency they have
made the Eaftern fide of the Hill moft Inhabited, it ferving inftead