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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.' [‎193] (238/506)

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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Hiftory of Eaft-India.
have won unto themfelves the Perpetuity of their Arms, and the Chap. VI
Credit of being called in to the Aid of divers Princes, and are in con-
tinual Action under fome one State or other bordering upon them ^ r C0 "
never altering their Vocations, being bred Warriors; thefe afpire iSatesT
not to great Charges, nor admit Commanders over them, unlefs of Rerol ution to
their own Cad ; fighting Pell-mell, as every one is infpired from the Conq^o^
Pay they receive; their Arms are Sword, Pike, and Buckler. A
Soldier that puts on a Crw/w-dye, intimates a Refolution either to dye
or be Conqueror.
Opium is frequently eaten in great quantities by the Rajhpoots, Opium eaten
Quetcries, and Patans, when they fight, which makes them run up- often '. . and in
on any Enterprize with a raging Refolution to dye or be victorious, quantltles •
Before Engaging, it is ufual for them to embrace one another, as if
parting for another World ; efteeming it happier to be killed in their
Vocation, than to fubmit to the Luft of a Conqueror,* their very
Women difdaining to own them for their Husbands, when they
once turn their Back upon their Enemies: Of one of which Vira
goes goes this Story; Her Mate had made an Efcape honourable
enough for a prudent Retreat, when coming home and craving Meat
from his Spoufe, after many obloquious Salutes (he put this Affront
on him, flie ferved him with a Brafs Ladle, whereas before his Meals
were taken up with one made of Iron; whereof he demanding the
Reafon, flie tartly replied. Left the fight of Iron jhouldturn jour Sto
mach from your Viftualsy as it had done from Fighting.
The Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction.
Follows the Soldier, though as contrary in Humour, as the Antipodes Whether the
in the fame Meridian are oppofite one to another: Thefe have for- B*nymht*
got if ever they were Jews, or no; but if any of thefe People are fuch,
thefe are moft likely ; and by a double Right of Jew and Gentile, are
a Compound of the greateft Cheat in the World, the fitted there
fore to make Brokers and Merchants of: They are devout Profelytes
in the Worfliipof this Countrey, and tenacious of their Rites and
Cuftoms; ftrid: Obfervers of Omens, fo that in travelling ten
Miles they fhall fometimes double the Ground, to avoid encountring
a Caphala of Afles, or to take the' Hand of a Flock of Goats or Cows
grazing: In the Rains they will not ride in a Coach, for fear they
fliould kill the Infects generated in the Cart-Ruts, or (linking Puddles:
So fooliflily fuperftitious are they and precife in Matters of Religion;
incafesof Trade they are not fo hide-bound, giving their Confcien-
ces more Scope, and boggle at no Villany for an Emolument.
The Poor Artifan
Can hardly live for thefe, who will grind their Faces to fill their
own Hoards, as much as the Defies do
The Peafants
And Comliesy who Till the Land, and drefs the Corn, with no re-
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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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'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.' [‎193] (238/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917456.0x000027> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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