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1633] AND OF THE MAREENE ATT SWALLY
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aforesaid for my native Countrie. But before I part hence
I will enlearge 2 or 3 wordes more of India. Although in
my severall Journies I have touched att many perticulers
of it, I will now speake a litle thereof in generall, and of
this place, the Marreene in perticuler.
Of India: its Inhabitants.
India hath Decan [Dakhan] on the South, Persia and
Tartaria to the Northwards, the gulfe of Bengala, Aracan,
Pegu on the east, and the Ocean sea on the West, as by
the Mapps [Baffin's] appeare1.
The Inhabitants are Moores [Muhammadans], Hindooes,
Parsees, Hallallcores \lialalklwr, low-caste].
Moores are of severall kindes, as Mogolls [Mughal],
Scieds [Sayyid], Patans [Pathan], Sheczaadas [Shekhzada,
Indian Muhammadan convert].
Hindooes of Innummerable Casts, as formerlie is
touched-. Theis two are generally all over [the country].
Parsees are only found about Suratt, whoe neither
burie nor burne their dead, but in certaine round, wide,
lowe towers [Towers of Silence] they are laid on their
backs with some Coveringe over them circularwise, be-
gining att the Circumference untill it come round, and
within them another ranck, they lye to putrifie, or to bee
eaten by fowle. There bones are throwne into a deepe
Concavitie like a well, made in the Centure of it3, As per
this figure4,1 haveing bine in one of them myselfe. If anye
1 By India, Mundy evidently means Hindustan proper, i.e., the
country controlled from Agra and Delhi, including modern Central
India, Rajputana, Kathiawar, Oudh, Panjab, Kashmir, North-west
Frontier Provinces, Sind, Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
2 See Relation VIII. p. 94.
3 See Lord, Religion of the Persees, p. 50, for "the place of their
Buriall." See also Herbert, pp. 53—54; Mandelslo, p. 76; Ovington,
PP- 370—381.
J See Illustration No. 22.
M. II.
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305
aforesaid for my native Countrie. But before I part hence
I will enlearge 2 or 3 wordes more of India. Although in
my severall Journies I have touched att many perticulers
of it, I will now speake a litle thereof in generall, and of
this place, the Marreene in perticuler.
Of India: its Inhabitants.
India hath Decan [Dakhan] on the South, Persia and
Tartaria to the Northwards, the gulfe of Bengala, Aracan,
Pegu on the east, and the Ocean sea on the West, as by
the Mapps [Baffin's] appeare1.
The Inhabitants are Moores [Muhammadans], Hindooes,
Parsees, Hallallcores \lialalklwr, low-caste].
Moores are of severall kindes, as Mogolls [Mughal],
Scieds [Sayyid], Patans [Pathan], Sheczaadas [Shekhzada,
Indian Muhammadan convert].
Hindooes of Innummerable Casts, as formerlie is
touched-. Theis two are generally all over [the country].
Parsees are only found about Suratt, whoe neither
burie nor burne their dead, but in certaine round, wide,
lowe towers [Towers of Silence] they are laid on their
backs with some Coveringe over them circularwise, be-
gining att the Circumference untill it come round, and
within them another ranck, they lye to putrifie, or to bee
eaten by fowle. There bones are throwne into a deepe
Concavitie like a well, made in the Centure of it3, As per
this figure4,1 haveing bine in one of them myselfe. If anye
1 By India, Mundy evidently means Hindustan proper, i.e., the
country controlled from Agra and Delhi, including modern Central
India, Rajputana, Kathiawar, Oudh, Panjab, Kashmir, North-west
Frontier Provinces, Sind, Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
2 See Relation VIII. p. 94.
3 See Lord, Religion of the Persees, p. 50, for "the place of their
Buriall." See also Herbert, pp. 53—54; Mandelslo, p. 76; Ovington,
PP- 370—381.
J See Illustration No. 22.
M. II.
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