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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.' [‎221] (266/506)

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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feeing their Geography, they began to enquire into the courfe of Chap. L
Profit, as well as their Ships way, and found that all their Inland
Trade tended to this Shus and the Red Sea ; wherefore they bent
themfelves to be Maflers of their Keys that" unlocked the World's
Treafures, for which Mufchat, is very commodious, of which be
coming PoflefTors, had not a too hot Zeal thruft them on, they might
to this day have enjoyed it with a juft Commendation due 'to their
Induftry ; but facrificing to Luft and Rapin what Ihould have been
to the Glory of God and True Religion, which is Pure as well as
Peaceable, they foon were driven out thence to Ormus ; where we
fhall conclude what belongs to this Story.
In the mean time we had gained the Tropick of Cancer, the very Enter the
day the Sun had gained the JEqumox ; when the North-Weft Winds St:re, 'g hts ^
envied our entry into the Gulf, and drove us out for Sea-room on the
Per fan Coaft, nearer the Shoars of Sinda, fo that we fpent a Week in
toffing up and down, and flriving againft a mighty Stream, before
we reached Mujchat again; but then the Winds were fpent, we
calmly pafled by fome Iflands in the Gulf, and a South Wind gently
blowing, we ftemmed the furious Current, till we could fee on
each fide Land from Perjia and Arabia ; on the one fide St. J a que s
his Head-land, on the other that of Mujfen'down appeared, and afore
Sun fet weentred the Streights Mouth, not above a League Wide:
It lies in Thirty fix Degrees North Latitude; a Mile within its Neck
on a row, are Four or Five Rocks, or Iflets, by Mariners called the
Coines\ from the refemblance of thofe Leavers of the fame Name,
wherewith they raife, or lower the Breeches of their Guns.
About Midnight we were between Ormus and Larack^ Forty four
Miles from the entry of the Streights, the biggeft not above Four
Mile in Length \ the lefler is Ormus ; great indeed for Name in time
of yore, now only famous for its Clifts of'Salt (which though
pierced by extream Heat, yet are a cure for the moft burning Fever,
the only known Remedy for fuch cafes in this Climate} and the
Caftle built by the Portugals, the chief ftrength of all thefe Seas.
Pafling both thefe Iflands, we made Kifmafh, and leaving it
a-ftern, we turned off Ihort to the Port of Gomhroon, or Bunder
Jhajfee ; in which Road we found Two lufty Dutch Ships, Two great
ones of the Moors, and One fmail one from Bomhaim; it is good
Riding for Ships in this Harbour, though an open Road, by reafon
of the firm Anchor-hold; it is otherwife fubjed to hot Blafls from
the adjacent Hills, which move the rowling Sands between, in fuch
fort, that in the ftation near the fhoar when thefe are raifed to
Clouds, the Ships cannot be feen.
The 22 d of March in.the Forenoon we were wafted afhoar juft to Wafted aftoar
the £»g///h Fa dory, the Sea waflring the very Sand afore its Doors; atGmir00K '
upon our Landing we were Welcomed with a Civility more eilential
to the Temper of the People, than what could proceed from any De
merits of ours, for they are naturally the moft Courtly of the
Eafl : So ftrange an alteratipn in Three hundred Leagues as pafles
admiration! for whereas we left a Sullen," Melancholy, Sunburnt
Nation; an Open, Jovial, and a Clear Complexioned Race of Man
kind is offered in exchange.
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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.' [‎221] (266/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917456.0x000043> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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