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 artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.

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Title: 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 artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.
Author: Fryer, John, d. 1733.
Publication: London :: Printed by R.R. for Ri. Chiswell ...,; 1698.
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CHAP. I.

Animadversions on the City and Peo∣ple of Surat.

THE Rudeness of the Devotes: And Seamen. The Buildings. The Hea∣then Rites more suppressed here than in Gulconda. Moguls and Chias disagree. Sects of the Moguls. Their Diet. Way of Entertainment. Their Attire is rich. The Women wear Jewels. Strict Observers of the Hours of Prayer. Great Revel∣lers at Circumcisions and Marriages. Quick in Labour. Great Lamentations when any dye. The Duty of their Priests. The Xeriff their High-Priest. Extrava∣gancies of their Fakiers. They make eve∣ry place their home, and all their own. How clad. The Governor not able to quell them. The Villany of the Gover∣nor's Servants, and Tragical Event. Some exemplary Punishments. Delinquents of another nature. The Crime of growing rich. The Sheriff. The chief Customer. The Mint. Markets. The Castle built by Timurlan. The Wall and Gates. Num∣ber of Soldiers. Their Mosques. Cara∣vans. Stables. The Governor quarrels with the Dutch.