'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.' [‎199] (244/506)

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i l H([ Glaucas Filh, /Eji 'tvo mnquam confpeftus Sydere Glaucus^ is true Chap.^VI*
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at . u in thefe Hot Countries of the Colour of the Eyes of thefe Sun burnt
i ' 0lt liiiiPtL' people, for I never faw but one Grey-ey'd, and therefore I fuppofe
s ^ e !eble cn ^ them rare; (unlefs they ftiould tindture them with fome Fuzus, it
le 1116 Flcll]f r 111 a y he of Antimony^ which we read in the Sacred Page the ^em ufed,
efpecially the Women, both to preferve them from Filth, and to
^ their p are l5s l procure a graceful Blacknefs, x Kings 9. Jer, 4. Ezek.z^,') Nor
: an end pj/J hut one Dwarf, which was a Brachmin, 109 Years old, well limb'd,
h'ch ^ tl i f anc { of a quick Apprehenfion, being not Three Foot high, free from
1 hme 3 the Infirmities of Age.
enflruijm/f, : 1° general they are melancholy inclined, and love a fedate Life The Caufe of
](jer l. more than Adlion ; and whether that may not add to their Dye, I theirBladmefs
ir Hiuk^j ^ ^ eave t0 the Sceptical; and conclude in this Point of thefe Afiaticks y u '
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V >ic d f y is*!? c •
as Nafo did 01 his Airicks \
a y Sanguine turn credunt in corpora furnma vocato ' .
' een!11 Nlu JEthiopum populos nigrum traxijje colorem*
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^^re noicof^ The Indian Wives drefs their Husbands Victuals, fetch Water,
Wjj , and a nd grind their Corn with an Hand-Mill,* when they fing, chat, and
^'ps 31' are merry ; fuch prevalency has Cuftom: Th6y make their Bread as
: aftamed to fo, thin as Wafers, bak'd on broad round Plates or Stones, commonly of
viable, yet loi Et Rice; the Moors is made of Wheat, thicker and oblong, beftuck with
, as well infer Seeds tocorred Wind, and moftly bak'd in a Furnace, which they
s by plucfo k ftick to the fides, when Dough,as we fee Cow-Turds on a Mud-Wall,
•ots, tbbei Boiled Rice, Nichany, Millet, and (in great Scarcity ) Grafs-Roots,
ihtheyfcfct J are the common Food of the ordinary People; which with a Pipe
'Rich Eiiltiir of Tobacco contents them.
CITIES
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of the fame; tkl
Gold and S lur, k ^ re ma fly and Populous; three more Renowned than the reft ( Dhil-
es Rings attkiil 1 and Agra ),' for the Refidence of the Emperor in one of
-r* not into m;; thefe for every Seafon of the Year; The reft are known either for
ied loofe orate Trade, or the Provinces whofe Names they bear.
gsinnatureoflk Their Buildings fuit with the Country and State of the Inhabi- xheir Houfes
keep up tbarlrai t ants, being moftly contrived for Conveniency: The Poorer are built for Con-
lUtShooesorkl made of Boughs or Oleas of the Faimeroes , or Leafs of Teke y and vemency *
bich are liktitte thatch'd both Sides and Coverings ; the middle fort of the Gentues
tion fake. iMi 'with Mud one Scory; floored with Cow-dung, which they doafrefti
:thein) arerite every day, after they have fwept and cleanfed them: Under which,
' theirHoulhold-Gods,themfelves,theirFamily,andCattel,are all houfed,
fkradon; fof^ and many times in no diftind Partition: They plafter Cow-dung be-
mfomftW* fore the,r Doors » and fo ^ e P thenci clean » havin g a littIe P lace or
two buik up a Foot Squafe of Mud, where they plant Calamintb, or
( by them called ) Tulce, which they worlhip every Morning, and
tend with diligence.
:d li
jo jbroiiti* T ^ e Richer and the Moors build with Stone and Mortar, fome-
afldbewrj
.and li^ to
times with Brick, making fmall Shevv without, but delicately contri
ved within, with Tanks, Airy and cool Choultries, private Recefles
for their Women, Tarafs'd atop, and fometimes three or four Stories
0 GreJ. * high;-