Their Bramins Are Esteemed Exceedingly Holy, And Have The
Charge Of Their Pagodas Or Idol Temples, Having Alms And Tithes For
Their Maintenance; Yet They Marry, And Follow Occupations, Being Good
Workmen And Ready To Learn Any Pattern.
They eat but once a day, washing
their whole bodies before and after meat, and use ablutions after the
natural evacuations.
The Baloches are Mahometans, who deal much in camels, and are mostly
robbers by land or on the rivers, murdering all they rob; yet are there
very honest men among them in Guzerat and about Agra. While I was in
Sinde, they took a boat with seven Italians and a Portuguese friar, all
the rest being slain in fight. This was ripped up by them in search of
gold.[102]
[Footnote 102: This is obscurely expressed, leaving it uncertain what
was ripped up in search of gold: The boat, the bodies of the slain, or
the prisoners. - E.]
John Mildnall, or Mildenhall, an Englishman, had been employed with
three other young Englishmen, whom he poisoned in Persia, to make
himself master of the goods. He was himself also poisoned, yet, by means
of preservatives, he lived many months afterwards, though exceedingly
swelled, and so came to Agra with the value of 20,000 dollars. On this
occasion I went from Surat for Agra, on the 14th May, 1614. I arrived
first at Bramport, [Bushanpoor] where Sultan Parvis lives, situated
in a plain on the river Taptee or of Surat, which is there of great
breadth, and at this place there is a large castle.
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