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1630] A JOURNEY FROM SURATT TO AGRA 53
Arabian, Keeches1, etts. Hee is sayd to have in his owne
stables about 12000 or 14000.
The gth December 1630. By the way hither (Cheanpore2,
9 course), wee conceive it had rayned, for there was ap-
pearance of grasse, but burnt upp againe with the Sunne.
All the waie from Suratt gates (or as I may say from the
English Garden there), wee seldome sawe any grasse or
greene thinge till wee came hither. There came now in
our Companie many Eliphants. One amounge the rest,
beinge feirce and dangerous, went with greate Chaines to
his leggs, as also men with long staves and fireworks att
their ends to hinder him from doeinge hurte3. With theis
fireworks they also part them when they fight, which is one
of the kinges pastimes, most comonly twice in the weeke4.
Att this Towne there seemes to have bene a faire goodly
River, now dryed upp, only some standing pooles in the
Channell.
The \oth December 1630. (Charwa*, 10 course). The
Countrie now began to shew it selfe with a litle better
countenance then hetherto. The small Townes and villages
as wee passed were stored with graine in the streets or
Bazares, And all the way as wee went wee mett with
many thousands of Oxen laiden with Corne goeing for
Brampore.
1 Kachkf, the hollow-backed horse of Kachh (Cutch) which had, in
Mundy's time, the reputation of being equal to the Arabian horse.
See Ain Akbari, tr. Blochrnann, 1. 133.
2 This place appears as Cheinpoor in Malcolm's map in his Central
India, dated 1824. It may be represented by Nandgaon, on the
Chhota Tawa, in lat. 21° 45', long. 76° 45'. See Indian Atlas, sheet 54.
3 This sentence has been corrected from the Harl. copy. The
Rawl. MS. has "att their ends from hindring them from doeinge
hurte." Here is a marginal note, "Fierce elephants, the manner of
their conductinge."
4 Hernier, ed. Constable, p. 277, describes the fighting of elephants
and their separation by charkhi or Catherine wheels. Mundy has a
further allusion to elephant-fighting in Relation vm.
0 Charwa, a village in the Harda tahstl, 5 miles S.E. of the Khirkian
Railway station, lying on the old high road from Delhi to Burhanpur.
Arabian, Keeches1, etts. Hee is sayd to have in his owne
stables about 12000 or 14000.
The gth December 1630. By the way hither (Cheanpore2,
9 course), wee conceive it had rayned, for there was ap-
pearance of grasse, but burnt upp againe with the Sunne.
All the waie from Suratt gates (or as I may say from the
English Garden there), wee seldome sawe any grasse or
greene thinge till wee came hither. There came now in
our Companie many Eliphants. One amounge the rest,
beinge feirce and dangerous, went with greate Chaines to
his leggs, as also men with long staves and fireworks att
their ends to hinder him from doeinge hurte3. With theis
fireworks they also part them when they fight, which is one
of the kinges pastimes, most comonly twice in the weeke4.
Att this Towne there seemes to have bene a faire goodly
River, now dryed upp, only some standing pooles in the
Channell.
The \oth December 1630. (Charwa*, 10 course). The
Countrie now began to shew it selfe with a litle better
countenance then hetherto. The small Townes and villages
as wee passed were stored with graine in the streets or
Bazares, And all the way as wee went wee mett with
many thousands of Oxen laiden with Corne goeing for
Brampore.
1 Kachkf, the hollow-backed horse of Kachh (Cutch) which had, in
Mundy's time, the reputation of being equal to the Arabian horse.
See Ain Akbari, tr. Blochrnann, 1. 133.
2 This place appears as Cheinpoor in Malcolm's map in his Central
India, dated 1824. It may be represented by Nandgaon, on the
Chhota Tawa, in lat. 21° 45', long. 76° 45'. See Indian Atlas, sheet 54.
3 This sentence has been corrected from the Harl. copy. The
Rawl. MS. has "att their ends from hindring them from doeinge
hurte." Here is a marginal note, "Fierce elephants, the manner of
their conductinge."
4 Hernier, ed. Constable, p. 277, describes the fighting of elephants
and their separation by charkhi or Catherine wheels. Mundy has a
further allusion to elephant-fighting in Relation vm.
0 Charwa, a village in the Harda tahstl, 5 miles S.E. of the Khirkian
Railway station, lying on the old high road from Delhi to Burhanpur.