A New History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs, Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants. ... With a Map of the Country, and Several Other Copper-plates, ... By Captain CopeM. Cooper; W. Reeve, and C. Sympson, 1754 - 389 pages |
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Page 285 - He told Mr. Vaux roundly that he expected his orders were to be his rules, and not the laws of England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies and foreign commerce.
Page 302 - ... and his body was, a little while after, burned with great pomp and ceremony, and the grandees elected a new Samorin. Whether that custom was a religious or a civil ceremony, I know not, but it is now laid aside. And a new custom is followed by the modern...
Page 294 - ... drawing up their men in a confounded hollow square that the enemy took courage and with horse and foot came running towards our men, firing and wounding some as they marched in their ranks, which our commandant seeing, pulled off his red coat and vanished.
Page 380 - Inquifuion, that frightens every Catholick into the Belief of every Thing that holy Mother Church tells them is Truth, whether it be really fo or no. THE Forts are governed by a Captain-general, and the City by a Burgher, called the Procuradore, but, in Reality, both are governed by a Chinefe Mandereen, who refides about a League out of the City, at a Place called Cafa Branca.
Page 246 - Ship-builders, exquifite in the Weaver's Trade and Embroidery, which may be feen in the rich Atlafles, Bottadaars and Jemewaars made by them, as well as fine Baroach and Nunfaree Baftas that come from their Manufactories. They work well in Ivory and Agate, and are excellent Cabinet-makers. They diftil...
Page 308 - Finger, and what they have to write is indented, or rather engraven into the Leaf, but it does not pierce the Leaf above half Way through. And on two or three of thefe Leaves they'll write as much as we can on a Sheet of fmall Paper.
Page 185 - Mufkat in Arabia Petrea. The country, of itfelf, affords or produces very few valuable commodities, befides coffee, and fome drugs, fuch as myrrh, olibanum or frakincenfe from Caffin, and aloes foccatrina from Soccotra, liquid ftorax, white and yellow arfenick, fome gum Arabick and mummy ; with fome balm of Gilead, that comes down the Red Sea. The coffee trade brings in a continual fupply of filver and gold from Europe...
Page 301 - Barcekar^ {landing on the Banks of a broad River, about four Miles from the Sea. The Country abounds in Rice, having in many Places two Crops in a Year, by the Advantage they have of fome Lakes at the Feet of the Mountains of Gatti, whofe Waters being confined by Sluces, are let out at convenient Times to water their Rice Fields.
Page 300 - The same writer describes the neighbouring kingdom of Canara as being generally governed by a female sovereign ; and he adds, " the subjects of this country observe the laws so well, that robbery or murder are hardly heard of among them ; and a stranger may pass through the country without being asked where he is going, or what business he has."— (New Account of Eait Indies, i.
Page 231 - Portugueze circumvented the King of Guzerat, As Dido did the Africans, when they gave her leave to build Carthage, by defiring no more ground to build their cities than could be circumfcribed in an ox's hide, which having obtained, they cut it into a fine thong of a great length, and over-reached their donors in the meafure of the ground.