'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎76] (395/1024)

Travels in India.
.Part II;
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where they generally take in freOi Water. If there be an 7 sh r ~~T~
would not come to an Anchor there, the Governour fent for his Cultom 1 ^ iv
was four in the hundred} and if they refus’d, the Goyernour had hk r f
ready to fink them. Ualea fe
The fifth Government was that of the hand of CeyUnd, to which bel m
all thofe places whcih the Tortugah had, as v/ell upon the Coafi: of ""
the Golf of Bengal^ and other parts of India • the worft of which em
meats was worth ten thoufand Crowns ann.
Befides thefe five great Governments, which were at the difpolal of the V
Roy, he had abundance of other Offices in his Gift, as well in Goa as in 0 rt
parts of India, The very day that he makes his Entry into Goa ’the Cam ^
of his Guards gets above^four thoufand Crowns. The three Offices of F '
neerMajor, Vifitor of the Forts, and chief Matter of the Ordinance viekPa
every year twenty thoufand iWo’s; every Bar do being worth twentv-feven
Sous of our Money. The Port aguefes were then all very rich ; the Nobilitv
by reafon of their Governments and Commands, die Merchants by their Trade
till the Englijh and Hollanders cut them fhort. When they had Or ms thev
Would not let any Merchant pafs by Sea into India; fo that they were forc’d
td go by Land through Candahar. Then, when the Tarky^ Perfan, Jrabm
Mufcovits, Bolonian^ and other Merchants arriv’d at Bander-Abafly, they join’d
together, and deputed four of the mctft experienc’d perfons among them,toview
all the forts of Commodities, and to underftand their quality and price. 5 After
they have made their report, they agree upon their price, and fetch away thier
goods,which are dittributed to every one proportionably according to the number
of Merchants. Itisalfothe cuftom ofall^*, that there is nothing fold,but a Bro
ker has a hand in the Bargain. They make good the Money to thofe that
have fold, and receive it from them that buy j and there are fome forts of
Commodities upon which there is due to them for Brokage, fbmetimesonein
the Hundred, fometime one and a half, and two.
At that time the Bortagnefes made great profit, without any lofs. For the
Jice-Roy took care to prefeve them againft the Pyrats. Who afloon as the
Rains are over, and that it was feafonably to put to Sea, always fent a fuffi-
cient convoy to guard the Merchants twenty-five or thirty Leagues to Sea
the not daring to ftir above fifteen or twenty. The Captains of tbe
Galiots, and the Soldiers drive a fmall Trade alfo in their Voyages, and in re
gard they pay no cuttom, they gain enough to maintain themfelves handfome-
ly all the time they lye in Garrifon,which is during the Rains. There was alfo
care taken for the advancement of the Soldiery j for every Soldier that came
from after nine years fervice, had fome Command either by Sea or
Land bettow’d upon him} and if he would not accept of it, they gave him
leave to Trade as a Merchant. So that if there happen’d to be any perfon of
underttanding among them, he could not fail, to raife his fortune, having all
the credit lie could defire. For there were people enough that being glad to
let out their Money, would venture with him at Cent, per Cent, upon his re»
turn. Ifthe Vefiel be lott, they that lend their Money, lofe either their
Money or their goods} but if the Ship come fafe home, of one they make
three or four.
The Natives of the Country, call’d Canarins, are not permitted to bear
any Offices among the Bortuguefes, but only in reference to the Law, that is
to fay, either as Advocates, or Sollicitors, or Scriveners } for they keep them
very much under. If one of thefe Canarins or Blacks, happen to ttrikea White
c>r European^ there is no pardon for him, but he mutt have his hand cut off.
As well the Spaniards as Portagaefcs, make ufe of them as Receivers, and to.foL
low their bufines. And in the Alahilids, or Philippin Ifiands, there are fome
ofthefe Blacksforich, that many of them have offer’d twenty thoufand Croi-
fats to the Vice-Roy, for liberty to wear Hofe and Shoe’s, which they are not
per mitted to wear. Some of thefe Blacks have thirty Slaves attending upon
them, very richly habited 5 but only they go barefoot. And had the Bomgals
permitted them to fet out Ships of their own, and to have chofen Captains and
other Officers at their own pleafure, the PortagHefes would not have m^dduch
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