filled with devotees o f the higheft rank, and fome of the firft
perfons o f the court of Aurengzebe, was taken in its pafiage,
in the latter end of the iaft century, by the infamous pirate
Avery. Among the pafiengers was a lady faid to have been the
daughter of the emperor. It proved a prize invaluable, in
great fums of money, veflels of gold and filver, jewels, and rich
habits; for ufually they are as much laden with merchandize
upon account o f the Mogul, as upon that o f the pilgrims and
their returns are fo rich, that they make a part o f the European
trade for the merchandize of Arabia Felix. Avery, after plundering
the fhip o f its wealth, difmiffed it and all its pafiengers.
This piracy for a time embroiled us with the Mogul; but the
affair being explained as.the aft o f a robber, he difmiffed his
anger againft the Englifh nation. In the beginning of the laft
century only one fhip, great and clumfy, was employed on this,
religious-commercial bu-finefs. 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
faitory we have in Hindoojlan, and all our veflels made for
Swalley, or the road of Surat, for at one or other of thofe places
all our countrymen landed, who intended to penetrate into the
interior o f the country. We find the illuftrious names o f Roe,
Herbert, and Sbirly, among the firft o f our countrymen who
landed on thefe weftern fhores.
Sir Thomas Roe, foon after his arrival, took his journey to
the court of Jehangtr, 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;
which we fhall attend him, till we rejoin him. again at Cbeitor.
After leaving Surat he vifited Burhanpour, a great city, in B o r h a n p o u r .
Lat. 21° 30', Long. 76° 19' E. about two hundred and thirty
miles eaft of Surat, on the Taptee, the capital of Candeijh, in
the Soubahjhip of Malwab, ftili a large and flourilhing city. He
took a northern eourfe, palled, a high range of hills,, and croffing
the Nerbudda reached Mundu, or Mundoa, feated on the Sepra> Munhog
a river riling due north, near to Cbeitor.. This city was- once the
capital of M a lw a b it is feated on a plain on the top o f a lofty
and fteep mountain. It has many remains of antient magnificence
among others, the tombs o f the Kuljyan Sultans,
Here alfo is the tomb of the parricidal tyrant, MaJJireddeen.. He
is faid to have peopled a eity with women,, and that all his
officers were of that fex *. About two miles from thence the
Moguls had a palace,, which Sir Thomas Roe vifited, when
Jebangir was there.,
Ougein is a large city, feated on the banks o f the fame river, O u g e in .
fome miles above. Abulfazul fays it fometimes flows with milk.
It probably flows through a ftratum o f white clay, which in
floods might tinge its waters with white, like
“ The chalky Wey that rolls a. milky wave f . ”
It is fuppofed to have been the Ozene of Arrian's Periplus
Maris Fry t hr ret, the capital of a Civitas Regia. It is mentioned
by Arrian as a place o f vaft commerce, not only in the
produdt'ions o f its own country,, but of thofe of other parts;
all which were tranfported to Barygaza, that vaft emporium,
near the mouth of the Namafus, Among other articles were
* Memoirs of Jehangir, p, 114. | Pope’ s Windfor Foreft.
Onyxes,