CONTENTS.

THE Beginning of our Voyage, our Ships, and chief

Commander,

A Tempeft,

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The Grand Canaries, and the Ifland of Teneriff,

The Turnadoes, or felf-oppofing Winds,

Divers Kinds of Fishes,

The Bay of Souldania, and Cape of Good Hope,
with the barbarous People there inhabiting,

The great Ifland Madagascar, and fome other

Parts of Africa,

Page 1-2

2-3

3-4

5-6

7, &c.

13, &c.

A Sea Fight with a Portuguese Carack, and the
Iffue thereof,

31, &c.

The Island Mohilia,

31, &c.

The Cocoa Nut Tree,

50, &c.

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Our Arrival at Swally Road, in Eaft-India,

Some Particulars to revive the Memory of that

(now almost forgotten) English Pilgrim,

Thomas Coriat,

55, &c.

The large Territories under the Subjection of

the Great Mogul-Section 1. Of the several

Provinces, the chief Cities, the principal Rivers,

the Extent of that vaft Empire, in its Length

and Breadth,

Page 74, &c.

Sect. 2. Of the Soil there, what it is, and what
it produceth,

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87, &c.
Sect.
3. Of the chief Merchandizes, and most

staple and other Commodities which are bought

in this Empire

- 105, &c.

Sect. 4. Of the Difcommodities, Inconveniencies,

and Annoyances, that are to be found, or met

with in this Empire,

114, &c.

Sect;

Sect. 5. Of the Inhabitants of Eaft-India, who

they are; of their most excellent Ingenuity ex-

preffed by their curious Manufactures; their

Markets at home, to buy and fell in, and of

their Trade Abroad,

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132, &c.

Page 120, &c,

Sect. 6. Of the Care and Skill of this People in

keeping and managing their excellent good

Horfes; of their Elephants, and the ordering

and managing them; and how the People ride,

and are carried up and down from Place to

Place,

Sect. 7. Of their numerous Armies, their Am-

munition for War; how they lade themfelves

with Weapons; how terribly they appear, yet

how pufillanimous and low-fpirited they are, 148, &c.

Sect. 8. Of our fafe and fecure living amongft the

Natives there, if we do not provoke them; of

their Faithfulness unto those that entertain

them as Servants; for how little they ferve, and

yet how diligent they are,

Sect. 9. Of their Buildings in Villages, Towns,

and Cities; how their Houfes are furnifhed; of

their Sarraes, or Houses for the Entertainment

of Paffengers; of their Tanks and Wells; and

of their Places of Pleasure,

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160, &c.

7175, &c.

Sect. 10. Of their Diet, and their Cookery in

dreffing it,

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193, &c.

199, &e.

Sect. 11. Of the Civilitics of this People; of
their Compliments; and of their Habits,

Sect. 12. Of their Language, their Books, their

Learning,

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Sect. 13. Of their Phyficians, Difeafes, Cures,

when they begin their Year, and how they inea-

fure their Time,

217, &c.

225, &c.

- 231, &c.

Sect. 14. Of the most excellent Moralities, which

are to be observed amongst the People of those

Nations,

Sect. 15. Of their Religion, their Priests, their

Devotion, their Churches,

Sect. 16. Of their Votaries, and of the voluntary

and fharp Penances that People undergo; of

their Lent, and of their Fafts and Feafts, - 262, &c.

242,

&c.

Sect. 17.

Sect. 17. Of the Marriages of the Mahometans,

Page 278, &c.

and of their Poligamy, Sect. 18. Of their Burials, and of their Mourn

ing for their Dead, and their stately Sepulchres and Monuments,

287, &c.

323, &c.

Sect. 19. Of the Hindooes, or Heathens, which inhabit that Empire, - 300, &c. Sect. 20. Of the Tenderness of that People, in preferving the Lives of all inferior Creatures, - 307, &c. Sect. 21. Of ftrange, groundless, and very grofs Opinions, proceeding from the Blackness and Darkness of Ignorance in that People, Sect. 22. Of their King, the Great Mogul, his Descent, &c. Sect. 23. Of the Mogul's Policy in his Government exercised by himself and Substitutes Sect. 24. Of the Mogul fhewing himself three Times publickly unto his People every Day; and in what State and Glory he doth oftentimes appear,

Sect. 25. Of the Mogul's Paftimes at Home and
Abroad, and fomething of his Quality and
Difpofition,
Sect. 26. Of the exceeding great Pensions the
Mogul gives unto his Subjects; how they are
raifed, and how long they are continued,
Sect. 27. Of the Mogul's Lefkar, or Camp
Royal,

Sect. 28. Of the Mogul's Wives and Women,
and fomething of his Children,
Sect. 29. Of the Manner of the Style or Writing
of that Court,

Sect. 30. Of the Jefuits fent thither by their Su-
periors to convert People unto Chriftianity,
Sect. 31. The Corollarie, and Conclufion,

346, &c.

352, &c.

,370, &c.

383, &c.

390, &c.

398, &c.

405, &c.

414, &c.

418, &c.

429, &c.

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COPPER-PLATES to this Work,

FRONTISPIECE,-fronting the TITLE.

MAP of the Territories of the GREAT MOGUL, Page 85

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VOYAGE to EAST-INDIA:

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A Description of the large Territories

UNDER THE

Subjection of the Great MOGUL.

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POLOGIES do more question than ftrengthen Truth; which Truth hath fuch power in prevailing, that she doth not know, and much less need, the ufe of preface, or words of perfuafion to get. her credit; for though the appear fimple and naked, unto open view, yet dares the encoun ter with armed Falfhood, and is fure at last to overcome; which Truth being the best ornament of this enfuing difcourfe, looks to be' credited, in what is here faithfully related.

Veritas eft vita hiftoria.

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