!['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.' [‎21] (498/506)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023545053.0x000001/W 3856_0504.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.' [‎21] (498/506)")
'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.' [21] (498/506)
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I
A Table of Principal Matters.
xxi
Opium ufed to make men perform things
above their ftrength , 111. Opium
brought from Malabar-Qoaft, 86
Orders of Priefts at Surat,
Organs and loud Mufick taking with the
Barbarians, 191
Ormis being taken by the Englijh, was the
firft Blow to the Portugal Greatnefs, 5 ^2.
Ovid deceived about the Fifth Zone, 181
Owners of Ships unfit for Commanders
in time of War, 67
Oxen made by bruifing their Tefticles, not
gelding, 118. Oxen all over India have
a Bunch between their Shoulders, lb.
p
p.
Agods ihowred into Blood,
. . I 55
Paknkeen-ViOys out-travel their H01-
fes: defcribed, 34
Palm-Tree delights in hot and fandy
Countries, 244. Palm-Trees impreg
nated with the Seed of the Male, 255
Tarfies made Free Denizons of India, 117
P^rr/^-TTombs in Perjia the fame as in India,
292
Pafs at Tan aw a flop to our Trade, as
well as Suftinence at Bombatm, 144
Pafllons difcernible in the Faces of the
Blacks, 13?
Chief Paftor's Office, 285;
Tatamars wearFeathers in theirTurbats,i 11
Yatans a Warlike Race, 9 6
Patriarchs foifted on the Armenians by the
Mandates of the Perfian Emperors, 271
Pawn, a bundle whereof wrapt in a Leaf
of Arack, an Indian Entertainment, 40.
Pawn makes a fragrant Breath,and gives
a rare Vermilion to the Lips, 93
Pay the caufe of Soldiers, and Money the
caufe of Pay, J19
Peace could not be obtain'd by the Syddy,q 8
Peace endeavoured with Svva by Vtfia-
pour, 79. Peace concluded vvith
JLiiglijlo at Seva Gi s Coronation, 79
Pearl dragged at Tutticaree, 40. Pearl-
filhing divided between the Perfians and
Arabs, 2.^. Pearls how generated, 33 I
P<mf Officioufnefs, 5°
People Warlike about Bonaru, 242
Pepper how it grows, T5
Perjepolis the Refidence of Storks, the Ty
rants of the Fens, 2fi. Perfepohs fet
on fire by 2^5
Perjian Language as in our Polyglot , not
underftood by the prefent Perfiavs, 402
Pcrjians are Good-Fellows, 246, Court
ly, 221. Feaft truly Perfian, 2 59. Per
fian Monarchs Abfolute, 548. Perfam
the French of the Eaft, 201. Opinia-
tors, 577
Perfon and Order diftinguifhed by the
Perfians, 5
Pilgrimage to Macha clarifies their Blood,
and purifies their Manners, 568
Pilot-fifh, j
Pirates of Malabar, f f
PiJJafphaltum Diojcoridis, 318
Pits dug for Wild Beails, y6
Plato's Revolution kept alive, 39
Platonics feign Souls defcend upon Earth
from the Tropick of Capricorn, 421
Plenty of India invited the Moguls, 194
Plica Polonica incident to the Indians, 26
Poefy how animated, 369
Poll-Tax on the Indians, 109
Poor well provided for, 1^6
Pope grants Eafi-India to the Portugals,
Weft-India to the Spaniards, 8 8
Popim Priefts of all Orders buried in their
Habits, 15 0
Popifti Emiflaries compafs Sea and Land
to gain Profelytes, 37
Ports blocked up, an irreparable Lofs, 170
Portugal Women good at Cookery, 1^7.
Portugals the firft Difcoverers of theWay
by Sea to the Eaft -Indies, 189. Pm~
tugals fondly report all India to be fub-
jedtothem, 62,197. Portugals great
Bleeders, xyi. Portugals on their Ar
rival at Calicut found joo Sail without
Compafs, J4. Portugals to their Ho
nour took fure-footing in India, 62.
Portugals hold their Tenants in a ftate
of Villenage, 70. Por?^/j fupply the
DefeA of the Englijh, by fending a
Fleet into the Gulph of Perfia, 218
Poverty a caufe of Contempt, _ 69
Prayers for the Dead held efficacious
among the Moors, 1 24
Prefents gain admiffion, 78
To prefide is to do Right, 38^
Priefts afcend the Steeples every Pore, or
Three Hours, to call men to Pray
ers, 186. Prkfts marry, 27 j
Princes of India weak at Sea, 43' 44*
Princes how educated, 347. Princes
Adions cannot efcape canvafmg, 349.
Princes of India poyfon their Prefents,
29
Slendernefs of Profit and Affiduity alike
irkfome, # 3
Procetfion made to implore Rain, 418
ProfefTors examine not their Students, 361
Prognofticators chime to all Fancies, more
than confult the Truth, 37 2
M m m Pro*
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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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