A New Account of East India and Persia Being Nine years’ Travels 1672-1681

Our House stands on a delicate Mead (on the Ground of *** Cutteen Esq3; a Cornish Gentleman who had it by grant from the King of Visiapour being impowered by a Claim of his Countrymen to the Right of Trading to the East-Indies but long since left off) Seated on an Arm of the River surveying a pleasant Island stored with Game : The Castle is nearer the Hills and higher up the Streams ; about a [...] 3 The fort of Reis Mago's the Magi " is on the S. E. extremity of the table-land on the right bank of the Mandivi in Bardes province about 2 miles N. E. of Agoada. [...] 272) speaks of the ship that came in a night from the Cape of Good Hope plump into the harbour of Goa a distance of some thousands of miles the Devil holding the helm and the Virgin Mary at the cond [" rudder " which as a noun is not to be found in New Eng. [...] II From thence we were brought to the College of the Dominicans' the Seat of the Inquisidor who is always one of this Order ; a magnificent Front to the Street ascending by many steps being a huge Fabrick; the Church surpassed the Cathedral the Pillars from top to bottom being overlaid with a Golden Wash and on the Walls the Martyrology of their Order : In the Sacristan were Massy Silver Can [...] G 0 A Is the Metropolis of the Portugals in the East-Indies and the Residence of a Viceroy who gives Laws to all Seculars though he cannot execute them on the Fidalgoes in Capital Crimes the King reserving the Definitive Sentence in such Cases to himself; they are therefore sent home to be tried in Europe by the established Courts of their Kingdom.