36 PASSAGES ETTS. ATT SURATT [REL. V

downe, shee taketh her husbands head on her Lapp. The
doore is presentlie [immediately] shutt upon her, one of her
kindred holding a greate pole against it, and others with
longe poles in their hands to Right the fire if neede bee
(or rather I thinck to knock her downe if shee should
chance to gett out). Then shee herselfe with a litle torche
she carried with her (made of Oyled Lynnen) kindleth it first
within, when her freindes without with the like Torches sett
it on fire round aboute, which on the suddaine burnetii with
greate violence, The Spectators in the meane tyme make-
inge all the noyse they can, some with drumms and Countrie
Instruments, beateing of brasse platters, Cryeinge or hol-
lowinge, Clapping their hands, all in a Confused manner,
while the furie of the flame lasteth. This I conceive is
to drowne her voyce if shee should chance to Crye. The
sides and upper part of the place was quicklye consumed;
yett satt shee upp with life in her, holding upp both her
Armes, which might bee occasioned through the scorch-
inge and shrinckinge of the Sinnewes, for shee held her
handes under his head untill the fire was kindled; soe att
last not able to sett upp anie Longer, shee fell downe
upon her husbands body, when by their freinds they were
covered with more fuell untill they were both burned to
ashes, which presentlie [immediately] is throwne into the
river. Hereunder I have set it downe in figure, as neere
as I can1.

A Strange Worme.

Yett a little more. By the Toddie gardens on the
thorne trees there is a litle worme woven in a Case or Codd
fastned to a sprigg of the said Tree, as it were by a bigg
thredd, soe stronge that it is hardly to bee pulled of. The

1 See Illustration No. 3. Compare Delloiv's description of a sail
at Surat (pp. 48—50), which closely resembles Mundy's account. In
Relation xxxvi. Mundy describes a sail that he witnessed in 1655 at
Rajapur, differing in many particulars from the one he saw at Surat.