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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1609. attract many to passe there their time: and on the trees are infinite number of those great Bats, which wee saw at Great Bats, Saint Augustines, hanging by the clawes on the boughes, their nature, making a shrill noise. This fowle the people say, in- gendreth in the eare; on each wing it hath a hooke, and giveth the yong sucke. The Winter heere beginneth about the first of June, Winter. and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines, as at Goa, but for some sixe or seven dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine. But at the breaking up, commeth alway a cruell storme, which they call the Tuffon, fearefull even to men Tujfon. on land; which is not alike extreame every yeare, but in two or three at the most. Monsons heere for the South, Monsons. serve in Aprill and September, and for Mocha in February and March: from the South, ships come hither in December, January and February, and from Mocha about the fifth of September, after the raines: from Ormus for the Coast of India in November. But none may passe without the Portugalls Passe, for what, how much, and I. iv. 424.] whither they please to give licence, erecting a Custome on the sea, with confiscation of shippe and goods not shewing it, in the full quantitie, to the taker and examiner. . IIII. His Journey to Agra: Observations by the way, and there; and of the Decan warres there. jlHe second of January, I departed from Comuariaw Comuariaw. (a small village three Cose from Surat) to Mutta a Mutta. great Aldea 7 c. 21.8 c. to Carode, a great countrey Carode. Towne, by which on the North runneth Surat River. It hath a Castle, with two hundred horse Patans good souldiers, twentie two to Curka 12 c. it is a great Village Curca. with a River o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217316460 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217316468 |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $27.55 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 474 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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