?60 E. A. MOL O17Y The 11tk November, 1630. Wee ?lepar?ed from Suratt art e?eninge, and ? that night came to Cumwarra (Khumbaria) (3 course), where wee mett, as wee expected, one Mirza Hahmud Saphee (Mirza Mahmud Safi), a .Persian, travellinge to Brampore (Burhanpur) the Kmge, nnto whome the President had recom- mended ns for our better saferye and accomodation in soe hazardous a tyme; begun, causeinge the for there was a great famine highwayes to be as it were unpassable for Theeve? and other whoe infesbed it, not so much for desire of riches as for graine eft. food. The 14,th 17oretuber, 1630. Wee came to Kirka (7 conrse), a poore Towne, halle burnt upp and almost voyd of Inhabitants, the most part fledd, the rest dead, lyeing in the streets and on the Tombes. The 16th departed from to Dayt?. Nove.mbe?', 1630. In the morning wee thence, and that evehinge wee came In this to that extremitie for Cl?ildre? sold o?' .qive? atva?j place the men and want of weomen were driven food that they sold with manye them alive, them againe. .The 18th their children for 12d. ,6d. and pence a peece; yea, and to give them away to any that would take them, thancks, that soe they might preserve although they were sure never to see l?roven?ber, 1630. From Baadore wee came !?o Ne!?herbarre (Nandurbar), (12 course), a greate place, ?here wee were much troubled to finde a tooroe convenient for our li?.le Tent, by reason of the number of dead bodyes tht?t lay scattered in about the Towne. Art last wee tooke up our inge amonge the Tombes. for us, whoe alsoe invited This place Mirza us to dine rodaye. and lodg- ehose I Course---'-Koe, which ifs re,ken as apl)mxhnately equal to 1? Rnflioh miles.
