There Are Here Many Merchants, Mahometans, Pagans, And
Christians; With Great Abundance Of Merchandize, Which Chiefly Are
Indigo, Cloth Of
Gold, silver tissue, velvets, but nothing comparable to
ours, taffeties, gumbucks, coloured baffaties, drugs, &c. Abdalla
Khan is governor of
This place, who has the rank and pay of a commander
of 5000 horse. From, thence, on my way to Cambay, I went seven c. to
Barengeo, [Baregia] where every Tuesday a cafilla or caravan of
merchants and travellers meet to go to Cambay, keeping together in a
large company to protect themselves from robbers. From thence sixteen c.
we came to Soquatera, a fine town with a strong garrison; whence we
departed about midnight, and got to Cambay about eight next morning, the
distance being ten coss.
In November, we rode to Sarkess, three coss from Ahmedabad, where are
the sepulchres of the Guzerat kings, the church and handsome tombs being
kept in fine order, and many persons resort to see them from all parts
of the kingdom. At the distance of a coss, there is a pleasant house
with a large garden, a mile round, on the banks of the river, which
Chon-Chin-Naw,[98] the greatest of the Mogul nobles, built in memory
of the great victory he gained at this place over the last king of
Guzerat, in which he took the king prisoner, and subjugated the kingdom.
No person inhabits this house, and its orchard is kept by a few poor
men. We lodged here one night, and sent for six fishermen, who in half
an hour caught more fish for us than all our company could eat.
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