A display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies vizt: the sect of the Banians the ancient natiues of India and the sect of the Persees the ancient inhabitants of Persia· together with the religion and maners of each sect collected into two bookes by Henry Lord sometimes resident in East India and preacher to the Hoble Company of Merchants trading thether

CHAP. II.

Of Brammon the eldest Sonne of Pourous, his Trauaile towards the East; he meeteth with the Woman appointed for him, the passages that happened in their Accoast, their Marriage, and peopling of the East.

THis eldest sonne of the first Man, cal∣led Brammon, grewe in stature, and had the preheminence of his birth, both in place, and in respect aboue the rest of his brethren; as also in regard of his neere relations to God in religious seruices, was highly honoured of his Brethren, and was an Instructor vnto them; and the Almighty communicated himselfe to him, in presence, and vision; he gaue himselfe therefore much to reading, and conuersed with the booke that God gaue him, containing the platforme of diuine worshippe.

Being therefore growne to mans age, and (as it should appeare by circumstances) man being created in the middest of the earth, in some pleasant place, where the Sunne at high Noone depriued substances of their sha∣dowes, (for it was fit that man should be pro∣duced out of such a place, as might be the Na∣uell of the World) God who would now disperse the Brethren from the Center as it were, to the Circumference, for propagation; commanded Brammon to take his booke in his hand, wherein was written the diuine law, and to direct his Iourney towards the rising of the Sunne in the East.

As soone as that glorious light of heauen had discouered his splendor from the toppes of the Mountaines, he tooke his iourney that way (for the East being the most noble part of the world, it was likely that had the pre∣heminence in plantation) vntill he arriued at a goodly Mountaine, before the proud face whereof lay prostrate a valley, through which there passed a Brooke, in the descent of which there appeared a Woman satisfy∣ing her thirst, from the streames of the Riuer; and they were both naked, Innocence not be∣ing then ashamed to publish her retyrements, and priuacies; nor hauing faulted so much with those immodest parts, as to neede a shrowd to veile them from the sight. This Woman was of haire blacke, of complexion

yealowish, or Saffrony, as on whose face the Sunne had too freely cast his beames, the re∣membrance of whose heate, was too surely conserued in her countenance; she was indif∣ferently sized, whose pitch could neither challenge the name of lownesse or high sta∣ture; modest were her Aspect, and her eyes Indices of so melancholly sobernesse, and composed lookes, as if shee seemed to bee sampled for him that met her.

But her eyes vnaccustomed to view such an Obiect, as was before her, hauing neuer seene a creature of proportion like her selfe, betwixt wonder and shame shee was vncer∣taine whether she should flye, or please her sight with such a vision. But Brammon no lesse abashed at such intrusion, which by retyring he could not well shunne, with a downe-cast countenance suppressed with shame, they both aboad one anothers presence, with tongue-tyed silence; whose backwardnesse gaue in∣couragement to the Woman, to question the cause of his comming thither; who answe∣red, That by the command of him who had made the world, him, her, and all creatures visible, together with the light that gaue them the comfort of their meeting; he was sent thither. The Woman to whom God had giuen that vnderstanding, to be capable of the propernesse of his speech, and inqui∣ring further into this Accident, said that there

was an agreement in their likenesse, and com∣position, that declared they had one maker; that it may be, he that had made them, and had his ends in their disposall, had thus brought them together, that some neerer bond might make them inseparable, from each others society: and casting her eye vp∣on the booke that Brammon bare in his hand, asked what it was; who acquainting her with the contents thereof, was desired to sit down, and communicate the religious Counsels of the same vnto her, whereunto hee condescen∣ded; and being both perswaded that God had a hand in this their meeting, they tooke coun∣sell from this booke, to binde themselues to∣gether in the inuiolable bond of Marriage, and with the courtesies interceding betwixt Man and Wife, were lodged in one anothers bosome: For ioy whereof, the Sunne put on his nuptiall lustre, and looked brighter then ordinary, causing the season to shine vpon them with golden ioy; and the siluer Moone welcommed the euening of their repose, whilst Musicke from heauen (as if Gods pur∣pose in them had beene determinate) sent forth a pleasing sound; such as vseth to fleete from the loud Trumpet, together with the noyse of the triumphant Drumme. Thus proouing the effects of generation together, they had fruitful issue, & so peopled the East, and the womans name was Sauatree.