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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1907.
The Snowes beingo then in pertia, in yo end of y Month Angust, & soe Extreame y, in of way to Spawhawne, my Sart! lost his toes, we wth extremity of cold rotted of. Soe left him wth M flowers, he being my Slaue (my other Hamstring in my voyage to Prester John30 [and] haueing wife & Children at Bagganogare (Bhägnagar, Hyderabad, Deccan], I gaue yo vallew of 60th to carrie him home. He would not (have) left me but I Considered his wife & Children, soe pted (parted).
Leaveinge Spawhawne yo first day September 1668,40 I wth my slane, a black, A french Padre & 2 Dymond Marchants of Paris, One Monsier Jordan a protestant, & Monsier Rasino Roman Catholic, tooke of Jurney homewards, Beinge Accompanied out of yo Citty wth all yo Engi french & Dutch, 2 Leagues, & after returned.
My Kinsman, Mi Mower," knoweinge in part what Charge I had wth me, 84 to me, Woe is me ye I cannot Pwaid yu against this iarney; yu vndertake it against my will. Doe not yu know St Humphrey Cooke, who ya Conveyed ont of India,*' how he was served. He, imbraceinge me, told me, tho I caime not saife home to England, my service don to y Company & for his hono?, wch ya knot Cozen yohane ynder my band, shall be made good to yofather, Or vnkle Whitty ; Soe we parted. The 2 dymond March, I, My Sarv, & y Padrey I brought from Surratt in India, whose naime is Farre Capusena [Capuchin Brother). The next towne from Spawhawne was 60 Leagues cald Pannuloe; in 5 days wee Arrived theire, all in helth.
Theire we consulted whether we should goe by ye way of Bagdatt Or Towreys [Tauris, Tabriz). Sd ye Dymond Marchts, we desire for Bagdatt but have a great Charge; Towreys is the surer way. We agreed to goe by Towreys, and all went wth yo Coff}la or Carravan, weh consisted of 40000 feightinge men, ye whole (horsses, Cammells, & asses), 100 000.
The next great Towne from Pannuloe to Towreys was 80 Leagues of, cald 66 We, 8 horsemen, wth saryts, left y Coffeloe & caime to Radie [P Rai close to Teherān], & verrie great Citty, in 9 days tyme; Thence for Towreys. In the way was noe Citty, only villages & Sernys. Ye distance was 172 Leagues, weh we went in 28 days, all comeing to Towreys in helth. Four days before we got to Towreys, theire was a french Docter y had cut 3 Blanes for ye Gouerner to make Coides (Khwaja, Coja, Eunuch) or Efnukes [in modern Greek] them to psent to y Emperror of Pertia his Maister, Shaw Sollyman Kinge.
But y Condition of yo Padreys or fryers in those parts, as elce where out Chrissen-dome, if not in, is y noe Man, how good an artist roerer, should live wheere they are, they ptending to all arts, & by that meanes get into places & make prosolites.
A french Padrey in ye citty went to ye Gouerner & told him he could cut Cheaper & safer then yo Docter. The Gou! had ginen yo Docter 40 Tomaines, 6 wch y padrey knew. Yo padrey was fuced, whye Docter knoweing, Left y® Citty, takeing 2 Saryts & 2 Mules, & tooke his way towards Smyrna, woh is cald in ye pertian tongue, Cashmeer [Ismir), & weere in the way buried in yo Sands.
» See Vol. XXXV. p. 177. - Campbell must surely mean 1669. See the note on his departare from Gombroon, ante, p. 108.
• Monsieur Raisin was known both to Tavernier and Chardin, "Monsieur Raisin of Lyons, a Person of Vory gond Repate, and my Companion in my former Travels, embarkt himself once more in this sort of Trade ; and though wo differ'd in our Religion, Yet for all that we liv'a Peaceably and in Unity together."-Chardin, Travels into Persia, p. 2, ed. 1601. See also Tavernier, Ball's edition, Vol. II. p. 804.
2 See ante, p. 127, noto 85. On Flower's return to Gombroon be fell under the displeasure of the authorities at Surat on account of the involved condition of his affairs. He eventually antinfled the Company's demands on him, and, though he lost his appointment at Gombroon, he was, in July, 1671, ordered to succeed in the Custom house of Nay him if Mr. Barton dyes."-Pactory Records, Surat, Vol. 104, and Miscellaneous, Vol. 2.
^ I can find no verification of this story. See the note on Sir Humphrey Cooke, ante, p. 103, note 16. ^ Pannuloe may be the modern Kashan, but it is difficult to trace the route followed by Campbell. .Hiatus in the MS, here. The town meant may be Kum or Kaavin, 46 Fryer, in 1677, gives the value of a tomauu as £8 6. Bd. See Hobson Jobson, I. v. Tomann.
