To Avoid This
Danger, There Is Always A Man Stationed On An Eminence, Who Gives Notice
With A Horn When He Sees The Approach Of This Torrent.
The distance
between Cape Jigat and the river of Nagotana is above 200 leagues.
On
the west Guzerat borders on the Resbuti or Rajputs, a people
dwelling in a mountainous country.[189] On the north it joins with the
kingdom of Chitor[190]: On the east with that of Pale.[191] The
coast is covered by numerous towns and cities. It is watered by two
famous rivers, the Taptii and Tapei[192] by many creeks that form
several islands. Guzerat is all plain, so that they generally travel in
waggons, as in Flanders, but lighter made, which are easily drawn by
oxen, smaller than those of Spain. The country breeds cattle in great
abundance, and plenty of provisions of all sorts. The natives are of
four different kinds. The first called Baneanes Baganzariis, feed
after our manner: The second called simply Baneanes[193], who eat of
nothing that hath life. Their priests are called Vertias, who are
clothed in white, and never change their apparel till it falls in
pieces. These live altogether on charity; and, like the children of
Israel in the desert, they never keep any thing for the next day. They
place their greatest hope of salvation in abstaining from killing any
creature whatever, and even use no light at night, lest any moth should
fly into the flame; and always carry a broom to sweep the ground they
tread on, that they may not trample any worm or insect to death.
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