“ and there were alfo fome cocks, peacocks, and other animals
“ needing the fame help, and kept altogether quietly enough,
“ in a great court: nor wanted there men and women, lodged
“ in little rooms o f the fame hofpital, who had care of them.
“ In another place, far from hence, we faw another hofpital of
“ cows and calves, fome whereof had broken legs, others, more
“ infirm, very old or lean, and therefore were kept here to be
“ cured. Among the beafts there was alio a Mahometan thief,
“ who, having been taken in theft, had both his hands cut off;
*i but the compafllonate Gentiles, that he might not perifh
“ miferably, now he was no longer able to get his living, took
“ him into this place, and kept him among the poor beafts, not
“ iuffering him to want any thing. Moreover, without one o f
“ the gates of the city, we faw another great troop o f cows,
“ calves, and goats, which being cured and brought into better
“ plight, or gathered together from being difperfed, and with-
“ out mafters, or being redeemed with money from the Mahome-
“ tans, who would have killed them to eat, (namely, the goats
“ and other animals, but not the cows and calves) were fent
“ into the field to feed by neat-herds, purpofely maintained
H, at the public charge; and thus they are kept, till, being re-
“ duced to perfedt health, ’tis found fitting to give them to
“ fome citizens or others, who may charitably keep them. I
“ excepted cows and calves from the animals redeemed from
“ {laughter; becaufe in Cambaia, cows, calves, and oxen are
“ not killed by any; and there is a great prohibition againft it,
“ by the inftance o f the Gentiles, who upon this account pay
“ a great fum of money to the prince; and fhould any, either
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“ Mahometan or other, be found to kill them, he would be
“ punifhed feverely, even with death.”
T h e country around is remarkably flat, and in parts over- V a st T ides,
flowed with the moft rapid and fudden tides in the world.
They rife four or five fathoms, and fweep before them every
thing in their way. Some miles o f this trail muft be pafled in
the way from Surat. Pietro de la Valle gives, at p. 35, a curious
account o f the dangers attending the journey.
T he kingdom of Cambay was firft fubdued by Mahmomet I.
in 1024, and after feveral revolutions, by the great Akbar in
1572. In later days it fell under the power o f the Mahrattas,
and in 1780 brought on the Mahratta war, which ended much
to our glory, and much to our lofs. This gave rife to the celebrated
march o f the Bengal brigade, under Colonel Goddard, G o d d a r d ' s
from Calpy, on the Jumna river, in Lat. 26° 7' N. Long. 80° 4' E. March’
to Amedabad, a march o f about fifteen hundred miles: we were
viilorious; but in the end, linking under the expence, were
obliged to give up moft o f our vaft conquefts.
Amedabad is feated in 22° 58' 30" N. Lat. It is the beft for- A medabad;
tified city in Hindoojlan. It ftands on the banks o f a fmall navigable
river, and is remarkable for its beauty. Its port is Cam-
bay, fifty miles to the fouth. Thevenot, p. 12, part iii. fpeaks
highly of this city, and its magnificent mofque, its fplendid
palace, and fine Meidan; and alfo its vaft commerce in fattins,
velvets, and tapeftries, with gold, filk, and woollen grounds, and
in the feveral produdlions o f almoft every part of India. It was
founded, fays the Ayeen, ii. 92, 96, by Tatar Ahmed, one o f the
fourteen Mahometan princes, fuccefibrs to Sultan Mahomet. The
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