CHAP. IV.
Takes up our Stay at Mechlapatan, to our landing at Fort St. George.
THE Treasure set ashore. The Boat∣men described. Peons to wait on us. Landing at Mechlapatan. The Fort and Town. Their Custom-house Keys. Pub∣lick Structures. The Bridges. They Story of this Place, and Kingdom of Gulconda. At first governed by their Tribes. How alter'd. Their King a Chias-Moor. All Noblemens Estates fall to the King. The barbarous Custom of poysoning among the Eastern Monarchs. Gulconda the Me∣tropolis gives Name to the Kingdom. The Prime Ministers are Eunuchs. Their Wealth, how rais'd. The Army, how paid. The Bigness of the Kingdom. The Governor of Mechlapatan. The Persians Favourites at Court. Their Port and Grandeur. The East-India Company's Factors. Their manner of living. The Populousness of the Gentues. Their At∣tire. The Gravity and Pride of the Moors. Their Jealousy. Strictness towards their Women. Contrary Freedom among the Gentues. Their fearful Disposition. Their Complexion. Execution in Cases Capi∣tal. The Post, and nature thereof. No Law-Disputes long depending. Their Re∣ligions. Their Doctors of Divinity, and their Tenets. Their Ceremonies. They marry young. Their Speech. The Maho∣metans bury, the Gentues burn their Dead. Christian Strangers. Coin current, and Commodities. Beasts wild and tame. Their hanging Coaches, and those that carry them. Beasts for War and Food. Reptiles. Fowls. Fishes. Corn. Fruits. The Water and Air bad. Rain causes In∣sects. The Air better up the Country. Twelve of the King's Elephants. Our repair aboard Ship, and coming to Fort St. George. The Massenberg given over for lost, we found here.