'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.' [‎170] (215/506)

A Relation of the
LetterIV. Robbing and Stealing, and content himfelf with his Puichafe-
l VW j which he derides, and tells him he is no flowbelly, to defire to expire
lazily on a Bed, rather than to meet his final Doom in the Field; and
to fit down as he does, with 10 L. P. 2000 Horfe, and 8000 Foot,
Sjddy Jore
Maintained aooo Horfe, 16000 Foot, 18 L. JP. per Annum,
Ruftam Gemma
Was worth 30000 L. P. 10000 Horfe, zoooo Foot. Both thefe
outed by Seva Gi,
Syddy Majfute,
5000 Horfe, ioooo Foot, 20 L. P. A Potent and Eminent Member
of the Realm.
Sheke Minus in Baligaot,
Enjoys large Pofleffions there, as does the Raja King of Canora in Cmri
The Members Seva Gi is reckoned alfo as a difeafed Limb of Duccan, impoflu-
of ^i/tapur, mated and fwoln too big for the Body ; in fome refpeds benefiting, in
others difcommoding it; beneficial, by oppofing the Mogul's Entry
into the Kingdom; but prejudicial in being his own PaymaHer,
rewarding himfelf mod unconfcionably ; all Condon being little
enough for him, extending in Length along the Sea-Coafts, ifo
Leagues, that is, from Balfore Hills to the River Gongole; where nei
ther is he limited in his extravagant Defires, expecting only opportu*
nity to gain further. Inland he hath not much, the Gaot feeming
to be a Natural Line of Circumvallation to the Up-Country, where
it is Campaign, though below Hilly; fo that you afcend to it by
Mountains piled on one another, over which Seva Gi hath total Do
minion, the Duccanees not driving to retake any thing, for all he
hath blocked up their Ports, which may prejudice them for the fu
ture 5 an irreparable Damage, ( Arat Steeds being the Life of their
Cavalry ); they having only Porto Novo beyond Tutticareekkthem
free.
Nor has he done this Injury to them alone, but the Mogulhaxh the
fame meafure up as far as Surat ; fo that he enjoys them wholly, ex
cepting what the Portugals have, and the Englijhrt Bomhaim; which
^rc oi no Import in relpedt of Trade, while the Caphalaes are hin-
dred to pafs thofe Ways; of which did he know or confider the Ad
vantage, he might amafs greater Treafures than he purchafes by pil^
aging and pilfering, and might come off with the Glorious Name
or a Q)nqueror; whereas otherwife, following his barbarous Courfes
an ^ Sword, he merits no more than to be branded as a
Thief: Witnefs thofe intolerable Cruelties, Devaftations, and De-
^ rts " la ^ e ky him every where in his Range up and down in the
s Territories, as well as in the Duccanean. 'Tis