A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.

  • Edward Ives
Date:
1773
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Credit: A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Harries are the fameiat as Frojis are at Bombay. Their women do all the drudgery at your houl'es, and the men carry your Palanquin. Niadde and Pullie are two low calls on ^h^-Malabar coaft, and who are held in fnch contempt, that the other natives will not fuffer them to come near them. When they have occafion to purchafe any thing, they are obliged to call aloud at a diftance, ?.nd fet down their balket with the money in it; then the feller advances, and puts in what they w'ant, and after he is gone from the fpot, the buyer comes, and carries it away. Their common employment is looking after cattle : they are never permitted to deep on the earth, but in trees. If only the breath of one of them were accidentally to come acrofs aiVrVr, the latter would not fail inftantly to put him to death. To avoid this, when they fee ^Nier coming towards them, they take care to. get out of his way. They are never fuffered to come near the towns, but on one particular day in the year, when they are fure to get together in crowds, and if they can be fo fortunate as to throw dirt on any woman that palTes by, (lie immediately becomes their (lave, let her be of whatever call Shackelays, are Hioemakers, and held in the fame defpicable light on the Coromandel coaft, as the Niadde and Pullie are on the Malabar. Thcfe are the cajls^ by which the natives are dillinguifhed all over India ^ but thefe are alfo branched out into fo great a number of diftindlions, that they can hardly be enumerated i tho’ they all pay particular refped:, and obferve different forms of ceremony to cafts of fuperior rank tp themfelves. In- general, it is remarked, that whatever be the trade of the father, the fame is that of the fon: fo that the families of boatmen, fifhermen, ^c. are boat¬ men and fifhermen to all generations. Some cafts expofe their old, and their fick in the ftreets, after they have been given aver by the Brahmm j others carry them down to low water mark, and fill their nofe, mouth, and ears with mud, and there leave them ; where they are fure to be foon devoured-f by vultures, kites, crows, jackalls, dogs, which abound in great numbers., Another caji never eafe themfelves while the fun is the above horizon;; and by way of prevention, keep a plug of dried mud in their fundament. The people on the Coromandel coafl, and efpecially at Fort St. David., believe chat there area, fet of philofophers in the mountains, who have the fecret of preferving * The account here gh'en of thefe five laft cafis of Indianty puts me in mind of another paf- fage in the before quoted learned author. “ Didli Halalchoti iunt inferioris generis Indi, qui ad viliora quaevis opera adigantur, (ad mundandas Plateas, & evacuandas Cloacas, See:] eaque libenter fufci{)iunr, dum Mauri Sc Baneani talia recufant ne polluantur. Ifti etiam edunt cadaverofas beftiarnm carnes, & nullum cibi genus conftientlae ergo recufant: unde nomen Haldl-<hur Ikitum edens, llli propter operas & diajtam habentur impuri, ideoque neminem alium libenter tangunt, nec aliquis ab eis vulc tangi: St quia tatStus inquinat pollaitque, feperatim vivunt ab omnlbu-s aliis: quia quicunque ab his taftus efl, tenetur habere moleHiam purificandi feipfum.” Yl'inz de Religione ‘ueterum. Ptr/arum. cap. 34. Nam Magi vulgo fuos defunflos volucribus & feris exponebant & hodie exponunt. Hydb, cap.. 34..