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WESTERN HINDOOS TAN.
filled with devotees of the higheft rank, and fame of the firffc
perfons of the court of Aurengzebe, was taken in its pafTage,
in the latter end of the laft century, by the infamous pirate
Avery. Among the pafTengers was a lady faid to have been the
daughter of the emperor. It proved a prize invaluable, in
great funis of money, vefTels of gold and filver, jewels, and rich
habits; for ufually they are as much laden with merchandize
upon account of the Mogul, as upon that of the pilgrims; and
their returns are fo rich, that they make a part of the European
trade for the merchandize of Arabia Felix. Avery, after plun-
dering the fhip of its wealth, difmifTed it and all its pafTengers,
This piracy for a time embroiled us with the Mogul; but the
affair being explained as the act of a robber, he difmifTed his
anger againft the Englijb nation. In the beginning of the laft
century only one fhip, great and clumfy, was employed on this
religious-commercial bufinefs. It carried fourteen or fifteen-
hundred tons, and the richnefs of its lading, both in going out
and in returning, was immenfe *. This is the moft antient
factory we have in Hindoofian, and all our vefTels made for
Swalley, or the road of Sural, for at one or other of thofe places
all our countrymen landed, who intended to penetrate into the
interior of the country. We find the illuftrious names of Roe;
Herbert, and Shirly, among the firfl of our countrymen who-
landed on thefe weftern mores.
Sir Tfjomas Roe, foon after his arrival, took his journey to
the court of Jehangir, then at Azimere, as we have related at
p. 59. Some very remarkable places occur in his route, in
* Terry's Voy. p. 137.
which
filled with devotees of the higheft rank, and fame of the firffc
perfons of the court of Aurengzebe, was taken in its pafTage,
in the latter end of the laft century, by the infamous pirate
Avery. Among the pafTengers was a lady faid to have been the
daughter of the emperor. It proved a prize invaluable, in
great funis of money, vefTels of gold and filver, jewels, and rich
habits; for ufually they are as much laden with merchandize
upon account of the Mogul, as upon that of the pilgrims; and
their returns are fo rich, that they make a part of the European
trade for the merchandize of Arabia Felix. Avery, after plun-
dering the fhip of its wealth, difmifTed it and all its pafTengers,
This piracy for a time embroiled us with the Mogul; but the
affair being explained as the act of a robber, he difmifTed his
anger againft the Englijb nation. In the beginning of the laft
century only one fhip, great and clumfy, was employed on this
religious-commercial bufinefs. It carried fourteen or fifteen-
hundred tons, and the richnefs of its lading, both in going out
and in returning, was immenfe *. This is the moft antient
factory we have in Hindoofian, and all our vefTels made for
Swalley, or the road of Sural, for at one or other of thofe places
all our countrymen landed, who intended to penetrate into the
interior of the country. We find the illuftrious names of Roe;
Herbert, and Shirly, among the firfl of our countrymen who-
landed on thefe weftern mores.
Sir Tfjomas Roe, foon after his arrival, took his journey to
the court of Jehangir, then at Azimere, as we have related at
p. 59. Some very remarkable places occur in his route, in
* Terry's Voy. p. 137.
which