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and soamy into Duccan.
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whole World : If the Disposition of the People be considercd, what Chap IV
Matters they are of this Faculty, of Buying at smau, and Vending at w^/^
great Rates, both Native and Exotick Wares! The sordid Penury of
the Banyans that live poorly and meanly, yet worth a King's Exche-
quer ; and notwithstanding the Governor often finds occasion to
sseece them, yet by the quickness of Merchandise passing thorough
this City, they recruit on a suddain.
The commodiousness of the Kiver serving to bring Goods in from
Europe, AJia, Africa and America; the long continued Current from
the Inland parts through the vast Wildernesscs of huge Woods and
Forests, wafts great Rafts of Timber for Shipping, and Building;
and Dar/iar for Pitch, the fincst sented Bitumen (if it be not a Gum
or Rosin) I ever met with.
And if the King's Fleet be but ordinary, considering so great a
Monarch and these Advantages, it is because he minds it not; he
contenting himself in the enjoyment of the Continent) and styles the
Christians Lions of the Sea ; saying that God has allotted that Un-
stable Element for their Rule.
They have not only Cair-Tarn made of the Cocoe for Cordage, but
good Flax and Hemp; and Iron from the Mountains of the South .-
So that it may be concluded, for the Benefit of an Harbour, for the
Dispositions of the Natives, for a convenient Supply (or more truly
Abundance) of all things, for a due imployment of them j but
above all, for the Commodities Exported, and the Riches Im-
ported, Sural cannot be fellowed in India.
CHAP. IV.
(Brings me with a New peputyGoVemor srom Surat to Bom*
baim, and fends me to the Mogul's General at Jeneah.
T.H E Fourth of April 1675. arriving at Bombaim with Mr. Gys-
sordt he was reinstated Deputy-Governor of that Issand ;
Captain Shaxton in this interim having his Sword demanded from
him by the Governor, and had been under Confinement; being
bound to answer an Indidment, wherein he was accused of Abet-
ting the Mutinous Soldiers.
For whose Trial, after a long endeavour to bring him to acknow- Captain s&*£
ledgment, was erected a seled Court of Judicature, andanAttorny «* st™ home,
ordered to impeach him,' who with some borrowed Rhetorick en-
deavoured to make him appear a Second Catiline ; but he cleared
himself so handsomely of all Objections (being lick at that time the
Stirs werey and having no reference to him, their Complaints being
of another nature, as the taking Money for more than could be pas-
sed current again, and other like pretended Exactions) that they had
no more to answer, than that it mould be referred to the Company;
before whom he mull personally appear, and therefore was ordered
home;, but was prevented by Death attheendof his Voyage: Other-
R wise
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whole World : If the Disposition of the People be considercd, what Chap IV
Matters they are of this Faculty, of Buying at smau, and Vending at w^/^
great Rates, both Native and Exotick Wares! The sordid Penury of
the Banyans that live poorly and meanly, yet worth a King's Exche-
quer ; and notwithstanding the Governor often finds occasion to
sseece them, yet by the quickness of Merchandise passing thorough
this City, they recruit on a suddain.
The commodiousness of the Kiver serving to bring Goods in from
Europe, AJia, Africa and America; the long continued Current from
the Inland parts through the vast Wildernesscs of huge Woods and
Forests, wafts great Rafts of Timber for Shipping, and Building;
and Dar/iar for Pitch, the fincst sented Bitumen (if it be not a Gum
or Rosin) I ever met with.
And if the King's Fleet be but ordinary, considering so great a
Monarch and these Advantages, it is because he minds it not; he
contenting himself in the enjoyment of the Continent) and styles the
Christians Lions of the Sea ; saying that God has allotted that Un-
stable Element for their Rule.
They have not only Cair-Tarn made of the Cocoe for Cordage, but
good Flax and Hemp; and Iron from the Mountains of the South .-
So that it may be concluded, for the Benefit of an Harbour, for the
Dispositions of the Natives, for a convenient Supply (or more truly
Abundance) of all things, for a due imployment of them j but
above all, for the Commodities Exported, and the Riches Im-
ported, Sural cannot be fellowed in India.
CHAP. IV.
(Brings me with a New peputyGoVemor srom Surat to Bom*
baim, and fends me to the Mogul's General at Jeneah.
T.H E Fourth of April 1675. arriving at Bombaim with Mr. Gys-
sordt he was reinstated Deputy-Governor of that Issand ;
Captain Shaxton in this interim having his Sword demanded from
him by the Governor, and had been under Confinement; being
bound to answer an Indidment, wherein he was accused of Abet-
ting the Mutinous Soldiers.
For whose Trial, after a long endeavour to bring him to acknow- Captain s&*£
ledgment, was erected a seled Court of Judicature, andanAttorny «* st™ home,
ordered to impeach him,' who with some borrowed Rhetorick en-
deavoured to make him appear a Second Catiline ; but he cleared
himself so handsomely of all Objections (being lick at that time the
Stirs werey and having no reference to him, their Complaints being
of another nature, as the taking Money for more than could be pas-
sed current again, and other like pretended Exactions) that they had
no more to answer, than that it mould be referred to the Company;
before whom he mull personally appear, and therefore was ordered
home;, but was prevented by Death attheendof his Voyage: Other-
R wise