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'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.' [‎163] (208/506)

The record is made up of 1 volume (427 pages). It was created in 1698. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Here are Wild Elephants, fome Pepper, and (lore of Beetle-Nut,
and Wild Nutmeg, ufed tp dye withal. The beft Pepper in the World
is of the Growth of Sunday known in England by Carwar Pepper,
though five Days Journy diftant from thence. This Raja King vends his
Pepper, as it is the beft, at the befl rates, finding a Trade up the Coun
try, and therefore is it we have little of it in Europe $ he contents
himfelf to live at Sunda , from whence he and his Country receive
denomination, being as little Abfolute as the reft of the Princes of
Vifiapour, being Tributary, or rather Feudatory, obliged as well by
Allegiance as Purfe.
The Raja King of Saranpatan muft not be flipped by in filence, becaufe
his way of fighting differs from his Neighbours; he trains up his
Soldiers to be expert at a certain Inftrument to feize on the Nofes of
his Enemies with that flight either in the Field or in their Camps,
that a Budget-full of them have been prefented to their Lord for a
Breakfaft; a thing, becaufe it deforms them, fo abalhing, that few
care to engage with him; and this he makes ufe of, becaufe it is
againft his Religion to kill any thing. He enjoys a vaft Territory
on the back of the Zamerhin,
Beyond him lies Raja King Madaree, poflefiing all from him as far as the
Cape, bordering on them both.
All thefe are the difjointed Members of Vifiapour, neither truft-
ing on another, nor uniting for the corfimon Good of the Kingdom ;
Since 'Seva Gi has put all into a Ferment, they know not who to
fide with, being uncertain of his Intentions; though.he telis them,
his Compeers the Duccanees, he is their Champion, and that none of
them befides himfelf has the heart to (land up for their Country; and
therefore if bechance now and then to rob them, it is but to reward
himfelf and Soldiers for his and their pains in endeavouring to free
them from a more unnatural Slavery.
This makes them begin to Cabal, not brooking the Perfidy of this
Man on the one hand, or the Infolence of Bu//ul Cam, being a Fo
reigner, on the other; nor to call in the Mogul to their Afliftance;
though ftill it is not refolved by a General Confent to be aiding to
each other.
In the mean whtfe Seva taking advantage of their Irrefolution,
ranges where he lifts, quite through Fifiapour, as far as Badnagur in
Gulconda, with one Detachment led by his Son ; with another he
flies himfelf as far as the Walls of Surat, leaving the Main of his Ar-
my at Pundit, before Goa: His Son, after he had plundered and burnt
Badnagur, having been obferved in his Paflage thither by gullul Caun,
did no harm in Vtfiapour ; but the Protedor being to watch the
Confpiracies of the Duccanees, could not be long out, for fear of
being intercepted in his Return, and was therefore prefled to retreat to
his Poft; and Samhu Gi retiring, fet upon Huhly, Rah ay, and other
Mart Towns, and ranfack'd them: And Seva Gi his Father being not
wholly difappointed at Surat ( which he calls his Treafury ) by their
fhutting their Gates upon himbut give him his ufual Pif~
cajh ; whither on his repeated Excurfions being forced to ask leave of
the Raja King of Ramnagur, to carry his Army, (by reafon of the Mogul's
Forces in the Plain Country ) through his Country, over the Hills
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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.

Author: John Fryer, M D.

Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.

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1 volume (427 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.

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