of Africa, Ethiopia, and Arabia; and more especially vast abundance of silk and cotton, so that by means of this prodigious trade the sultan is astonishingly rich.  The sultan of Cambay is almost continually at war with the king of Joga, whose realm is fifteen days journey from Cambay, and extends very far in all directions.  This king of Joga[63] and all his people are idolaters.  He maintains an army always on foot of 30.000 men, and is continually in the field travelling through his dominions with a prodigious train of followers at the charge of his subject, his camp containing at the least 4000 tents and pavilions.  In this perpetual progress he is accompanied by his wife, children, concubines, and slaves, and by every apparatus for hunting and amusement.  His dress consists of two goat-skins with the hair side outwards, one of which covers his breast and the other his back and shoulders.  His complexion is of a brown weasel colour inclining to black, as are most of the native Indians, being scorched by the heat of the sun.  They wear ear-rings of precious stones, and adorn themselves with jewels of various kinds; and the king and principal people paint their faces and other parts of their bodies with certain spices and sweet gums or ointments.  They are addicted to many vain superstitions; some professing never to lie on the ground, while others keep a continual silence, having two or three persons to minister to their wants by signs.  These devotees have horns hanging from their necks, which they blow all at once when they come to any city or town to make the inhabitants afraid, after which they demand victuals and whatever else they are in need of from the people.  When this king remains stationary at any place, the greater part of his army keeps guard about his pavilion, while five or six hundred men range about the country collecting what they are able to procure.  They never tarry above three days in one place, but are continually wandering about like vagabond Egyptians, Arabs, or Tartars.  The region through which they roam is not fertile, being mostly composed of steep and craggy mountains.  The city is without walls, and its houses are despicable huts or hovels.  This king is an enemy to the sultan of Machamir? and vexes his country with incessant predatory incursions.

[Footnote 63:  What sovereign of India is meant by the king of Joga we cannot ascertain, unless perhaps some Hindoo rajah in the hilly country to the north-east of Gujerat.  From some parts of the account of this king and his subjects, we are apt to conceive that the relation in the text is founded on some vague account of a chief or leader of a band of Hindoo devotees.  A king or chief of the Jogues.—­E.]