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A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

Men but Two lost Savagi now Acts as King and secures himself in the mountains where the Mogol is not able to attack him Caambaia is 3 Miles from the River Indus and about 3 Miles in Compass one of the neatest and best Built Citys in all the East and called the Indian Grand Cairo for its Greatness Traffick and Fertility of soil and so populous as to contain an hundred and thirty thousand Families Here they cut the Agats that come from other Countreys into several sorts of shapes and in the Suburbs they make Indico Here the East-India Company had a Factory the tydes are so swift that a Horse at full speed cannot keep pace with the Waves but the Sea and the Trade is fallen away from it Swalley is more South and about a Mile from the Sea but gives name to a large Capacious Bay where the Ships ride that Trade to Surat from which it is about ten Mile distant Maslipatan MAslipatan or Metchlapatam is a great City the Houses whereof are only Wood Built at a distance from each other It stands by the Sea and the Honourable East-India Company have a Factory here This being the most famous Road for Ships in the Bay of Bengal from whence they Sail to Pegu Siam Ormus Sumatra and other Places of Traffick This City is in Golkonda but the Great Mogol is so much dreaded there that his Commissioner is Master thereof buying selling bringing in and sending abroad his Merchants Ships none daring to contradict him in any thing nor to demand any Customs of him Pa●…ania is a City South from Siam and was governed many years by a Queen In 1612. Some English Men came hither with a Letter from Q. Elizabeth and a Present from the Merchants of 600 Rials of Eight The Letter was carried in great state being lay'd in a Bason of Gold lay'd on an Elephant adorned with little Flaggs Lances and Minstrils They then obtained a Grant to Trade there upon the same conditions as the Hollanders and there was an English Factory which is now removed Siam is a Kingdom The chiefest part lying between the Gulf of Siam and Bengale the Countrey is plentiful in Rice and Fruits The Forrests stored with Deer Elephants Ty●…ers Rhinocero's and Apes Here grew store of large Bamboo Canes under the knots of them are Ants or Emmets Nests as big as a Mans head where they preserve themselves during the Rains which continue 4 or 5 Months The King of Siam was accounted a very Rich Prince and stiled himself King of Heaven and Earth though he be tributary to the Kings of China There were Idols in his Temples Seaven foot high all of massy Gold When the King appeared all the Doors and Windows of the Houses must be shut All the People prostrating themselves on the ground not daring to look up And because no Person was to be in an higher Place then the King they within doors were bound to keep their lowest Rooms He would suffer no Barbar to come near him one of his Wives cutting his hair for him One part of his magnificence consists in his Train of 200 Elephants among which one was White which he valued so highly as to stile himself King of the white Elephant He passionately admires them accounting them his Favourites and the Ornaments of his Kingdom If an Elephant dyed he was burned with the same Funeral Pomp as a Nobleman The English had a Factory formerly in this Kingdom as well as at Armagon As for Ballasore Hugli Chuttanetti Daca Rajamell the present Honourable East India Company have Factorys in all those Places of which little more can be say'd then what has been spoken of others At the famous Port of Bombay Island the English have Built a strong ●…ort and here they Coin both Silver Copper and Tin which passes among themselves and the Villages along the Coast. The Empire and Government of the Great Mogol HAving given some account of the Forts and Factrys of the Honourable East India Company I shall subjoine a breif Relation of the Empire and Government of that Mighty Monarch The name of India is now given to the Empire of the Great Mogol and to the two Peninsula's one on this side and the other beyond Ganges with the Islands scattered in the Indian Sea which are all comprehended under the general Name of the East-Indies yea some Authors take in all the Oriental Part of Asia It is recorded that the Old Inhabitants consisted in 122 several Nations originally descended from the Sons of Noah before their Journey to the Valley of Shinaar and their attempt in Building the Tower of Babel That it was first invaded by the famous Queen Seinramis with an Army of above four Millions whom Staurobates an Indian King opposed with equal forces who overcame and slew her That the next Invasion was by Bacchus the Son of Iupiter and Hercules who by policy and force subdued them and taught them the use of Wine Oyl and the Art of Architecture After this India was invaded by Alexander the Great He vanquishing first Clophae Queen of Magaza and then King Porus both whom he took Prisoners But restoring them again their Liberty and Kingdom returned back to Babylon where he dyed of poyson After this they lived in peace under several Kings In 1587. their Countrey being discovered by the Portugals and after by the Dutch and English they have had much Traffick with them This vast Empire comprehends the greatest part of the Continent of Asia wherein are contained 37 Kingdoms As for Remains of Antiquity there are few or none the Mogols having ruined all the Ancient Buildings which according to the Ancients were 30 large Citys and 3●…00 Walled Towns and Castles so strong as to be thought impregnable which may not be improbable if Noah first planted there after his descent from Mount Ararat not far distant from hence Since such mighty Armys were raised in those Countreys not many Years after and the Land so well Built and planted so that when Alexander had overthrown King Porus near the River Hydaspis he say'd He found greater Citys and more sumptuous Buildings in India then in all the World besides Some of the Citys that end in Pore as Meliapore Visiapore and others seem to retain the Memory of K. Porus as others in Scander the Name of Alexander The Dominions of the Great Mogol are larger then the Persians and equal to the Grand Seigniors His strength lyes in the Number of his Subjects the Vastnes of his wealth and the extent of his Empire his Revenue exceeding the Persian and the Turks both put together But the K. of Persia exceeds him in Horse Arms and warlike People His Revenue is reckoned to be about Seaven Millions and an half English money The Throne alone wherein he gives Audience is valued at near Four Millions being almost covered with Jewels Pearls and all kind of precious stones of a vast Value The present Mogol derives his Original from

at his success for assuring his new Dominion sought to win the minds of the vanquished to him and to contract a firm League with the Lords of his own Countrey But scarce were the minds of the Nobility united when Miminique Son of Manimassah with a great Army of Gala's and others make War upon him of whose design his Father was not ignorant having forgot the kindness received from Flonikerrys Arms in settling him in his new acquired Dominions Flonikerry drew together his Forces to whom the Nobles joining theirs he formed a considerable Army wherewith marching toward the Enemy they came to a Battle wherein by the multitude of their Enemies they were at first put to a disorderly retreat which Flonikerry who was of an undaunted Spirit perceiving digged with his hand a hole in the ground and put his Knees in it with a resolution either to die there or to remain Conquerour so after a long and sharp contest being even covered with Arrows he was slain on the spot However his Men to revenge their Princes death rallied and gave a fresh charge with such fury that they turned the Fortune of the day and became sole Masters of the Field The death of Flonikerry was kept secret till they sent for his Brother Zillimanque to take his charge who accepting the same pursued the Victory and drew near the Enemies Camp which he soon surprized and gave as a spoil to his Souldiers After which he marched farther the People all along yielding subjection without blows whereby they soon became Masters of the whole Countrey and gain'd the reputation of a Mighty People After which he was poisoned as was thought leaving behind him several Sons who were young and not capable to manage their Fathers Conquests However Flansire his eldest was admitted Successor during whose Minority his Uncle Iemmah undertook the Government but Flansire growing to years took the Royal Authority into his own hands and to shew that he inherited as well his Fathers Valour as Countreys resolves to inlarge his bounds yet farther and to that end marcht with his Forces over the River Galinas or Hens taking all the adjacent places as far as Sierra Leona and placing Garrisons therein having settled his new Conquests he return'd to his own Native Principality where he spent a good part of his Life in peace and quietness when on a sudden there came News from Sierra Liona that Kandaqualla his Governour was driven out thence and forced to fly with all his People to the Islands of Bannaneo not being able to withstand Falma of Dogo who with a mighty Force invaded them Flansire startled at this intelligence and knowing nothing more necessary than expedition sent to the Lords his Substitutes to raise an Army and meet him at an appointed Randezvouz but they having made a private Confederacy with Gamina their Master Flansires Brother neglected and slighted his Commands Flansire ignorant of this Combination leaving the Government of his Kingdom Wives and Children to his treacherous Brother Gamina marched with his eldest Son Flambore the present King of Quoia not doubting the Fidelity of his Provincials He went first by Land to the River of Hens and from thence in Canoes to the Isles of Bananes to take with him his People who were driven from Sierra Leona and so bringing them back thither he began a sharp War with Falma This Falma had been formerly in great favour with the King of Dogo or Hondo but having debauched one of his Wives the King was so offended that not content it should as usual be bought off with Gifts or Slaves he caused his Ears to be out off and banished him his presence but length of time so wore out the Kings Fury that Falma was again admitted to Court where he soon began to shew his Insolence and at length addrest the King in these Terms Sir King considering the wickedness committed against you my Lord and Master I am obliged to thank you for your gracious Sentence by which I am punished whereby every one that looks upon me derides and scorns me and the rather because the punishment is unusual and the like offence customarily bought off with Goods and Slaves Now as you were pleased to punish me so I desire the like offence in others may be punished in the same manner It may happen that some of the Kings Servants or Subjects may fall into the same Lapse but if this Sentence be either denied or not performed I shall complain against my Lord the King in the Ways and in the Woods to the Jannanen and Belli that is to all the Spirits and Demons The King having heard this audacious Speech notwithstanding this seeming Threat determined that the punishment inflicted on him should not follow upon all But yet to pacifie him he made him General of an Army to recover Sierra Leona out of the hands of Kandaqualla who presided there for Flansire To repel this Invader Flansire as we said coming to Sierra Leona with an Army and making sharp War at length by the help of some Europeans he fell upon the Town of Falmahah and with Axes cutting down the Treewall at last they forced an entrance and set the Houses on fire whose fury soon increased to an impossibility of being quenched whereupon Falma unable to resist fled whom young Flambore pursued and though he mist him yet got great Reputation the People stiling him The Pursuer of Falma Flansire having reconquered these Countries and setled Kandaqualla retreated with his Forces intending to return to his Wife and Children But on the way he had notice that his Brother Gamana had usurped his Kingdom killed all his Sons he could meet with taken his Wives for himself and had set up his Residence at a convenient place near the River of Hens to intercept and hinder his Brothers approach this Rebellion of his Brother was attended with the Invasion of Manou who dwelt near Cape Miserado They fell into his Countrey at Cape de Monto where they burnt the Town and led away all they met with for Slaves Flansire understanding these mischiefs marched toward the River Maqualbary with all speed complaining to the Kanou and Iananies that is to God and the Angels of his distress in these words To you it is known that my Father left me rightful Heir to his Kingdom which falls to me by the Laws of the Land seeing I was the eldest You likewise know that my Brother hath rebelled against me and hath set himself up to be Lord be you Judges between him and me in this intended Fight and if the Cause be unjust that he manages against me let the mischief fall upon his own head Then he passed with all his Souldiers over the River where the Armies met and his Brother with great numbers of men being slain he obtained a compleat Victory but still kept the Field to be ready against any other appearing Rebels his Son Flambore went with a Squadron of Souldiers into the Woods

A Guinean Monarch THE English Acquisitions IN GUINEA EAST-INDIA CONTAINING First The several Forts and Castles of the Royal African Company from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa Viz. Iames Fort in the River of Gambo Sherborow in York Island Sierra Leona in Bence Island Dickeys Cove Commenda Cape Coast Castle Fort Royal. Annamabo Winnebah Accra Secondly The Forts and Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia India Sumatra China c. Viz. Spawhawn and Gambroon In Persia. Fort St. George Fort St. David Conimeere Cudaloor Porto Novo Madapollam Metchlapatam Pettipolee On the Coast of Coromandel Carwar Callicut Surrat Bombay Island Ballasore Hugly Chuttanetti Daca Rhajama On the Co. of Mallabar Atcheen and York Fort. In Sumatra Amoy Canton and Tonqueen In China c. WITH An Account of the Inhabitants of all these Countries their Religion Government Trade Marriages Funerals strange Customs c. Also the Birds Beasts Serpents Monsters and other strange Creatures found there Intermixt with divers Accidents and notable Remarks With Pictures Likewise A Description of the Isle of St Helena where the English usually refresh in their Indian Voyages By R. B. London Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1700. TO THE READER HAving already endeavoured to Inform my Countreymen of the Grandeur of the English Monarchy by giving them an Account of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and likewise of his Majestys Dominions in America the acceptance they met with hath incouraged me to discover to them what many have only heard of by discourse namely the English Acquisitions in the 2 other Quarters of the VVorld Africa and Asia In the first the Royal African Company being by their Charter from King Charles 2d dated January 2. 1662. Incorporated the Limits of their Trade were from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope In which large Tract of Land they have Erected several Forts Factories and Settlements for securing their Commerce which is very considerable in those Parts In Asia the English began their Discoveries just an hundred years since in 1600. under Sr. James Lancaster with 4 Ships only And soon after the Industry of others had such success that the Merchants Trading thither were likewise Incorporated by Charter This Honourable East-India Company by the prudent management of their affairs setled Forts and Factorys in Twenty four several noted Places Of which our unkind Neighbours deprived us of some and others were Deserted for Conveniency the names of those abandoned are as follows Ormus and Jasques in the Persian Gulf. Cambaja and Agra in the Great Mogols Countrey Armagon Pattana and Siatu on the Coast of Coromandell and Continent of Asia Ticko Jambo Prianan on the Isle of Sumatra Bantam Jaccatra and Japarra on the Isle of Jara Socodona and Bornermasa on the Island Borneo Macassar on the Isle of Celebs Polleroon in the Isle of Banda Firando in Japan Amboina Hitto and other Molucco Islands So that now the English possess only those mentioned in the Title Page the Account of all those Places with the Religion Government and Manners of the Inhabitants and the Strange Creatures therein cannot but be diverting I have also given a brief Description of the Isle of St. Helena and the wonderful Voyage from thence of Don Domingo Gonsales the Little Spaniard which ingenious and well contrived Fancy would have been lost if not here retreived These with many other pleasant Relations therein will I hope procure as fair Quarter for this as those formerly published have met with from the Friends of R. B. The Acquisitions of the Royal African Company in Guinea and the several Forts and Castles belonging to them from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa With an account of the Natives of those Countrys their Religion Government Trade Wars Marriages Funerals and Strange Customs Also the Birds Beasts Monsters Serpents c. found there Intermixt with divers Accidents and Notable Remarks THat Tract of Land called Guinea in Africa comprehends 700 Leagues from Cape Verd in 14 Degrees N. Latitude to Cape Consalvo in the first Degree of South Latitude The Portugals were the first that ranged this Shore and having Intelligence of the Commodities and manner of Trading the Natives by fair means and force got footing on the Sea-coasts building Forts and placing Garrisons and Factories in several places and found such a Golden Trade that they called some Coasts thereof by that name This was an inducement as what will not Gold attract to their further search all along to the Cape of Good Hope and thereby consequently to the East-Indies The fair quarter and usage the Inhabitants received from the Portugals already setled there incouraged them to exchange their Commodities which Trade according to the Custom of that Kingdom was maintained by Factors upon the King of Portugals particular account in every Port and Town as if he intended the profits of Merchandizing should defray the charges of his Conquests and Garrisons furnishing the Natives with Salt Iron Tin Copper Basons Knives Cloth Linnen and other European Goods and receiving in exchange Cattle Corn Rice and the like but chiefly Gold in great abundance both in Sand and melted Ingots which gave Life and Briskness to the further Discovery of those Countreys and continuance of that Trade to this day though not so considerable as formerly The English and other Nations desirous to share in this Rich Trade in short time Sailed thither and because they had no Forts to Protect their Persons and Goods from the Portugals and treachery of the Inhabitants they were compelled to Anchor along the Coasts near the greatest Towns and signifying to the Negroes what Wares they had brought by their plausible demeanor they at length imboldened them to come aboard their Ships and bring their Gold the manner of which Trade was very different from that of any other Countrey For betimes in the Morning the wind being then generally off the Shore and the weather calm the Natives came aboard in their Canoes and Scu●…es to Traffique some for themselves and some as Factors for others carrying at their Girdles a Purse wherein were several small Clouts or Papers containing the Gold belonging sometimes to ten several Men which though all of the same weight and goodness yet they readily distinguisht and having made their bargains for Cloth Linnen or the like at Noon they return'd with the Seabrize again to the Shore and beside the agreement these Factors had some small thing for themselves in reward for their Brokage but in process of time the Hollanders frequenting these Coasts and being well acquainted with the manner of the English Traffique and coming into the same places where the English Traded and were known they soon spoiled this Golden Trade by their sinister and indirect dealing for Anchoring with the English whom they found to have a better Trade than themselves they