!['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.' [‎18] (495/506)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023545053.0x000001/W 3856_0501.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎18] (495/506)")
'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.' [18] (495/506)
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XV111
A Table of Princi
Health not to be impaired, but the Mind
ftrengthned by a due fubjedioa, 280
Heathens admire their Brachmins foretel
ling Eclypfes, 109. Heathens in
hold the Antiquities of Tan, Ceres, and
Flora, 44. They are polled by the
Mogul, 117
Heats unhealthy, 76. Their ill effect re
medied, 23 j
Hernia Umh'dicalis, or Navel-Rupture, 21
Hills of Red Earth, J 5"
Hivg ufed to corred a Windy Stomach, 114.
Cakes of Hlvg, 259
Hohfies with their Swords able to cut down
Man and Horfe, 147
Hodges or Pilgrims Holinefs makes them
proud, 369. Lay Burthens on others,
and exempt themfelves, 319
Hogs unclean, 34
Hollanders only carry Money from Surat,
in
Holencores vilified for eating every thing,
and doing fervile Offices, 28
Holidays obferved, efpecially Sunday, 186
Honefty of the Country People, 2^1
Honours breed Emulation, 140. Hopes
of Honour being fruftrated, there can
be no defire of Glory, 3^6
Horfe intomb'd, 15" 8. Horfes have the
Virtue of their Sires communicated to
them, 329. Ufed gently in the£^/, 100.
High-mettled, 140. Not put to carry
Packs, Oxen being for that Service,
34, 118^ Horfes never gelded, or
cropped either Ears or Tails, 118
Hofpitals for Beafts, 5-3
Hot Countries, as they are bad for young
and lively, are good for Women and
Old Folks, 69
Hottentots mere Barbarians, 422-
Houfes on Wheels, 230. Houfes of Of
fice none at Goa, they doing their Needs
a-top of their Houfes, 1 j6. Houfe of
Office kept cleanly, 71. A piece of
Courtefy to dired: Strangers to them,
7 1
Humanity turned into Avarice np Bene
fit, 239
I.
Idea of Religion as it is true or falfe, fo
it happens there refults a true Piety,
Superfticion or Idolatry, ggy
Idlenefs makes Work, ^
Jealoufy the Overthrow of the Indians, 27
Caufeof Diftradion, Page 116
Jenneah the Imperial City of the Duccan
Kings, I 39
Jefuits rich, defpife Government, chief
Traders,
Jtivs wear a Patch of different Colour
only at Lhor, where the Caun has been
a Pilgrim, 277. Jews ripped open on
fufpicion of evil pradice againft the
Emperor, 315-. Jews allow Difpenfa-
tions, to avoid the Inquifition, iBf
Ignorance the Mother of Devotion, 44
Imaum Guardian of Mahomet's Tomb, 220
Immunity from Cuftoms granted MuJJel-
men out of a Religious Fit, 98
Immuring a Punifhment for Robbers in
Verfta, _ 243, 318
Indians paint their Forheads, to diftinguifii
their Tribes, 32. Idolaters; eat only
with their own Tribe, lb.
hdoftan has no Charadier to exprefs its
felf in, 191
Induftry of the commended, 221
Inflammation cured by the Butter of
Gourds, 242
Influence of the Climate, 402
Innkeepers unprovided, 341
Inquifidor the Chief Judge, always a Do
minican, 149
Inquifition a terrible Tribunal, 148. Cal
led the Holy Office,
Inquifitivenefs into the Affairs of the Ba
nyans revenged with Poyfon, 85"
Intemperance the Caufeof fhort life, 69
Intereft obliges to be faithful, 167
Interloping deftrudive to the Enrlijh
Trade, 86
Interpreters for Europeans are allowed each
a Wine-prefs in Verfia, 224
Infeds generated in every Plant, 242
Johanna Natives fimple and innocent, 19
Their Infants have large Penes, 21
Don John de Cafiro's Virtue, Valour, and
lingular Probity, 218
Juftice alone all other Virtues holds, 236
St .T Jgo Natives thievifh and cunning, 9
X Jafper Antonio Author of the Qoa-
Stones, I49
Ice drank frequently, pernicious to molt
Bodies, 211
K.
Kindred of Mahomet prefume on that
Title to enflave his Followers, 249
Kindnefs extorted not fo obliging as free
ly offered, 43
King
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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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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.'
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